Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize

The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize is an annual award given by the American Physical Society "to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics." It was endowed by AT&T Bell Laboratories as a means of recognizing outstanding scientific work. The prize is named in honor of Oliver Ellsworth Buckley, a former president of Bell Labs.

The prize is normally awarded to one person but may be shared if multiple recipients contributed to the same accomplishments. Nominations are active for three years. The prize was endowed in 1952 and first awarded in 1953.

Year	Name	Institution	Citation
1953	William Shockley	Bell Labs
1954	John Bardeen	Bell Labs
1955	LeRoy Apker	General Electric Research Laboratory
1956	Clifford G. Shull	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1957	Charles Kittel	University of California, Berkeley
1958	Nicolaas Bloembergen	Harvard University
1959	Conyers Herring	Stanford University
1960	Benjamin Lax	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	For his fundamental contributions in microwave and infrared spectroscopy of semiconductors
1961	Walter Kohn	University of California, San Diego
1962	Bertram N. Brockhouse	McMaster University
1963	William M. Fairbank	Stanford University
1964	Philip W. Anderson	Princeton University
1965	Ivar Giaever	General Electric Research Laboratory
1966	Theodore H. Maiman	Hughes Research Laboratories
1967	Harry G. Drickamer	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
1968	J. Robert Schrieffer	University of Pennsylvania
1969	J. J. Hopfield	Princeton University
	D. G. Thomas	Bell Labs
1970	Theodore H. Geballe	Stanford University	For experiments that challenged theoretical understanding and opened up the technology of high-field superconductors.[1]
	Bernd T. Matthias	University of California, San Diego
1971	Erwin Hahn	University of California, Berkeley
1972	James C. Phillips	Bell Labs
1973	Gen Shirane	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1974	Michael Tinkham	Harvard University
1975	Albert W. Overhauser	Purdue University
1976	George Feher	University of California, San Diego
1977	Leo P. Kadanoff	Brown University
1978	George D. Watkins	Lehigh University
1979	Marvin Cohen	University of California, Berkeley
1980	William E. Spicer	Stanford University
	Dean E. Eastman	IBM Research
1981	David M. Lee	Cornell University
	Robert Coleman Richardson
	Douglas D. Osheroff	Bell Labs
1982	Bertrand I. Halperin	Harvard University
1983	Alan J. Heeger	University of California, Santa Barbara
1984	Daniel C. Tsui	Princeton University
	Horst L. Stormer	Bell Labs
	Arthur C. Gossard
1985	Robert O. Pohl	Cornell University
1986	Robert B. Laughlin	Stanford University	For his contribution to our understanding of the quantum Hall effect.
1987	Robert J. Birgeneau	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988	Frank F. Fang	IBM Research
	Alan B. Fowler
	Phillip J. Stiles	Brown University
1989	Hellmut Fritzsche	University of Chicago
1990	David Edwards	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1991	Patrick A. Lee	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1992	Richard A. Webb	IBM Research
1993	F. Duncan M. Haldane	Princeton University	For his contribution to the theory of low-dimensional quantum systems.
1994	Aron Pinczuk	Bell Labs
1995	Rolf Landauer	IBM Research	For his invention of the scattering theory approach to the analysis and modeling of electronic transport.
1996	Charles Pence Slichter	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	For his original and creative applications of the magnetic resonance techniques to elucidate the microscopic properties of condensed matter systems including, especially, superconductors.
1997	James S. Langer	University of California, Santa Barbara	For contributions to the theory of the kinetics of phase transitions particularly as applied to nucleation and dendritic growth.
1998	Dale J. van Harlingen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	For using phase-sensitive experiments in the elucidation of the orbital symmetry of the pairing function in high-Tc superconductors.
	Donald M. Ginsberg
	John R. Kirtley	IBM Research
	Chang C. Tsuei
1999	Sidney R. Nagel	University of Chicago	For his innovative studies of disordered systems ranging from structural glasses to granular materials.
2000	Gerald J. Dolan	Immunicon Corporation	For pioneering contributions to single electron effects in mesoscopic systems.
	Theodore A. Fulton	Bell Labs
	Marc A. Kastner	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001	Alan Harald Luther	Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics	For fundamental contribution to the theory of interacting electrons in one dimension.
	Victor John Emery	Brookhaven National Laboratory
2002	Jainendra Jain	Pennsylvania State University	For theoretical and experimental work establishing the composite fermion model for the half-filled Landau level and other quantized Hall systems.
	Nicholas Read	Yale University
	Robert Willett	Bell Labs
2003	Boris Altshuler	Princeton University	For fundamental contributions to the understanding of the quantum mechanics of electrons in random potentials and confined geometries, including pioneering work on the interplay of interactions and disorder.
2004	Tom C. Lubensky	University of Pennsylvania	For seminal contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems including the prediction and elucidation of the properties of new, partially ordered phases of complex materials.
	David R. Nelson	Harvard University
2005	David Awschalom	University of California, Santa Barbara	For fundamental contributions to experimental studies of quantum spin dynamics and spin coherence in condensed matter systems.
	Myriam Sarachik	City University of New York
	Gabriel Aeppli	London Center for Nanotechnology
2006	Noel A. Clark	University of Colorado, Boulder	For groundbreaking experimental and theoretical contributions to the fundamental science and applications of liquid crystals, particularly their ferroelectric and chiral properties.
	Robert Meyer	Brandeis University
2007	James P. Eisenstein	California Institute of Technology	For fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron states in low-dimensional systems.
	Steven M. Girvin	Yale University
	Allan H. MacDonald	University of Texas, Austin
2008	Mildred Dresselhaus	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	For pioneering contributions to the understanding of electronic properties of materials, especially novel forms of carbon.
2009	Jagadeesh Moodera	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	For pioneering work in the field of spin-dependent tunneling and for the application of these phenomena to the field of magnetoelectronics.
	Paul Tedrow
	Robert Meservey
	Terunobu Miyazaki	Tohoku University
2010	Alan L. Mackay	Birkbeck College, University of London	For pioneering contributions to the theory of quasicrystals, including the prediction of their diffraction pattern.
	Dov Levine	Technion University
	Paul Steinhardt	Princeton University
2011	Juan Carlos Campuzano	Argonne National Laboratory	For innovations in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, which advanced the understanding of the cuprate superconductors, and transformed the study of strongly-correlated electronic systems.
	Peter Johnson	Brookhaven National Laboratory
	Zhi-Xun Shen	Stanford University
2012	Charles L. Kane	University of Pennsylvania	For the theoretical prediction and experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect, opening the field of topological insulators.
	Laurens W. Molenkamp	University of Würzburg
	Shoucheng Zhang	Stanford University
2013	John Slonczewski	IBM Research	For predicting spin-transfer torque and opening the field of current-induced control over magnetic nanostructures.
	Luc Berger	Carnegie Mellon University
2014	Philip Kim	Columbia University	For his discoveries of unconventional electronic properties of graphene.
2015	Aharon Kapitulnik	Stanford University	For discovery and pioneering investigations of the superconductor-insulator transition, a paradigm for quantum phase transitions.
	Allen Goldman	University of Minnesota
	Arthur F. Hebard	University of Florida
	Matthew P. A. Fisher	University of California, Santa Barbara
2016	Eli Yablonovitch	University of California, Berkeley	For seminal achievements in solar cells and strained quantum well lasers, and especially for creating the field of photonic crystals, spanning both fundamental science and practical applications of that science.

External links

• APS page on the Buckley Prize

References

1. Levy, Dawn. "New advanced materials laboratory dedicated in Geballe's honor". Stanford University. Retrieved 17 August 2013.