NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR THE HEIKE KAMERLINGH-ONNES PRIZE
Nomination Period: August 1, 2025 – December 1, 2025
The HEIKE KAMERLINGH ONNES PRIZE committee is now accepting nominations for the 2026 award. The Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, recognizing outstanding experiments which illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials, will be presented during the M2S-HTSC Conference in Stuttgart, Germany on July 19 – 25, 2026.
Please submit nomination packets consisting of a letter outlining the significant research of the nominee(s), a current CV, and two letters of support as one pdf document, with Kamerlingh Onnes Prize in the subject line, to koprize@bluewin.ch by the deadline of December 1, 2025. Identities of nominated candidates and nominating scientists should be kept strictly confidential. The prize committee will examine the nominations on an individual basis, including those where multiple candidates are grouped together. All nominations and nominators will be treated confidentially.
The Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, established in 2000 by the organizers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S) and sponsored by Elsevier, Publisher of Physica C – Superconductivity and its Applications, is awarded for outstanding experiments which illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials. The Prize consists of € 7,000 and a special framed certificate designed by Elsevier.
Selection Committee
Dirk van der Marel (Chair, University of Geneva)
Laura Greene (Florida State University)
Erik van Heumen (University of Amsterdam)
Rolf Lortz (LNCMI Grenoble)
Setsuko Tajima (Osaka University)