The 2026 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes prize is awarded to:
Richard L. Greene (University of Maryland, USA), for the discovery of polymeric superconductors and elucidating the novel physical properties of other unconventional superconductors including cuprates.
Yasutomo J. Uemura (Columbia University, USA), for establishing the relation between the superfluid density and the superconducting critical temperature in a broad range of unconventional superconductors.
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)