The Fritz London Memorial Prize Selection Committee is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Fritz London Memorial Prize. The award is widely recognized as the highest international honor in low-temperature physics.
The 2025 awardees are (in alphabetical order):
Robert Hallock: “For his many innovative achievements in the physics of liquid helium films and his pioneering work on supertransport in solid helium-4, which includes the paradigm-changing discovery of giant isochoric compressibility.”
John Saunders: “In recognition of his pioneering research on topological and strongly correlated quantum fluids and solids in reduced dimensions, enabled by his development of cryogenic and measurement technology to open research opportunities spanning quantum materials to fundamental physics.”
Ali Yazdani: “For cutting-edge discoveries of the interplay between correlated phases and superconductivity in cuprates, heavy fermion systems, and graphene using advanced low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy.”
Established in 1957 by John Bardeen, the prize commemorates Fritz London, a distinguished Duke faculty member known for his pioneering contributions to theoretical chemistry, physics, and the philosophy of science. It is presented every three years on the opening day of the International Conference on Low Temperature Physics. In 2025, the prizes will be awarded during the LT-30, taking place on August 7-13.
Fritz London, born in 1900 in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), was an internationally recognized theorist whose career was disrupted by the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933. After fleeing Germany, he worked in England and France before immigrating to the United States in 1939, where he joined Duke University and later became the James B. Duke Professor of Physics and Chemistry. To honor his legacy, Duke hosts an annual endowed Fritz London Memorial Lecture, featuring distinguished physicists and chemists.
For further information, please contact:
Professor Gleb Finkelstein, Prize Secretary, Duke University, gleb@duke.edu
Professor Pertti Hakonen, Chair of Selection Committee, Aalto University, pertti.hakonen@aalto.fi