Sir Martin Wood Prize

Sir Martin Wood Prize
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byOxford Instruments
RewardJPY 500,000
First award1999
WebsiteMillennium Science Forum

The Sir Martin Wood Prize is an annually presented condensed matter science prize presented in honor of Sir Martin Wood. Due to Wood's connection with and reputation in Japan, the award is given to a young scientist in Japan[1] under the age of 45 to promote scientific exchange between Japan and Britain.[2] Condensed matter physics, inorganic-organic chemistry, material science and surface-interface physics are eligible fields under condensed matter science. Sponsored by Oxford Instruments, the company Wood co-founded, the award comes with a cash prize of JPY 500,000[3] and opportunities to give invited lectures at universities in the United Kingdom.[4]

Laureates

Year Laureate Affiliation Citation
1999 Yasunobu Nakamura[5]
(中村 泰信) 		NEC Fundamental and Environmental Research Laboratories "Quantum coherence in single-electron-pair box."
2000 Tokushi Kizuka[6]
(清水克哉) 		Nagoya University "Atomic direct observation of structural dynamics in solid."
Katsuya Shimizu
(木塚 徳志) 		Osaka University "Search for superconductivity under ultra-high pressure."
2001 Keiya Shirahama[7]
(白濱 圭也) 		Keio University "Experimental study of the transport phenomena in the Wigner crystal phase of electrons on super fluid 3He."
2002 Ichiro Terasaki
(寺崎 一郎) 		Waseda University "Search for a novel physical property in transition-metal oxides."
2003 Toshimasa Fujisawa[8]
(藤澤 利正) 		NTT Basic Research Laboratories "Study of single-electron dynamics in quantum dot."
2004 Yuzo Ohno
(大野 裕三) 		Tohoku University Research Institute of Electrical Communication "Spin injection and electron spin/nuclear spin dynamics in semiconductors."
2005 Tsuyoshi Kimura[9]
(木村 剛) 		Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories "Discovery of colossal response to magnetic field in manganese oxides."
2006 Kazutomo Suenaga
(末永 和知) 		National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology "Electron microscopy and spectroscopy on single molecules."
2007 Akira Ohtomo
(大友 明) 		Tohoku University Institute for Materials Research "High mobility electron gas at polar oxide heterointerfaces."
2008 Teruo Ono[10]
(小野 輝男) 		Kyoto University "Magnetization control in nano-magnets by electric currents."
Eiji Saitoh
(齊藤 英治) 		Keio University "Generation, detection and utilization of spin currents."
2009 Yousoo Kim[11][12]
(金 有洙) 		RIKEN "Spectroscopy and reaction-control of a single molecule at surfaces."
2010 Shuichi Murakami[13]
(村上 修一) 		Tokyo Institute of Technology "Theory of the Spin Hall effect."
2011 Yukio Kawano
(河野 行雄) 		Tokyo Institute of Technology "Terahertz wave detection"
2012 Daichi Chiba[14]
(千葉 大地) 		Kyoto University "Electric-field control of ferromagnetism in semiconductors and metals."
2013 Naoya Shibata
(柴田 直哉) 		University of Tokyo "Development of an advanced scanning transmission electron microscope for material science research."
2014 Masamitsu Hayashi[15]
(林 将光) 		National Institute for Materials Science "Effective field measurements and spin torque dynamics in magnetic nanostructures."
2015 Takuya Satoh[16]
(佐藤 琢哉) 		Kyushu University "Generation and control of magnetic excitations by polarized light in antiferromagnets and ferrimagnets."
2016 Akihito Ishizaki[17][18]
(石﨑 章仁) 		Institute for Molecular Science "Theoretical development of real-time quantum dissipative dynamics and its application to molecular systems."
2017 Michihisa Yamamoto
(山本 倫久) 		University of Tokyo "Control and detection of quantum phase in semiconductor nanostructures."
2018 Yoshihiko Okamoto
(岡本 佳比古) 		Nagoya University "Creation of functional electronic phases."
2019 Keiichi Inoue[19]
(井上 圭一) 		University of Tokyo "Discovery and functional analysis of novel retinal proteins."
2020 Takeshi Kondo
(近藤 猛) 		University of Tokyo "Identification of electronic states of high-temperature copper oxide superconductors by advanced angle-resolved photoemissions spectroscopy."
2021 Atsushi Togo[20]
(東後 篤史) 		National Institute for Materials Science "Development of open source software for phonon properties in materials science."
2022 Shunichiro Watanabe[21]
(渡邉 峻一郎) 		University of Tokyo "Creation of crystalline organic and polymeric semiconductors with excellent charge and spin transport properties."
2023 Genki Kobayashi[22]
(小林 玄器) 		RIKEN "Creation of hydride super-ionic conductors."
2024 Kosuke Yoshioka[23]
(吉岡 孝高) 		University of Tokyo "Realisation of Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons."
Emi Minamitani[24]
(南谷 英美) 		Osaka University "Correlation between nanostructures and transport properties in inhomogeneous condensed systems."
2025 Takamasa Sakai
(酒井 崇匡) 		University of Tokyo "Innovation of gel science based on the creation of homogeneous gels."

See also

References

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