The EPS CMD Europhysics Prize is awarded since 1975 by the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, in recognition of recent work (completed in the 5 years preceding the attribution of the award) by one or more individuals, for scientific excellence in the area of condensed matter physics. It is one of Europe's most prestigious prizes in the field of condensed matter physics. Several laureates of the EPS CMD Europhysics Prize also received a Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry.
Source: European Physical Society
| Year | Laureate | For |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Victor S. Bagaev | The condensation of excitons |
| Leonid V. Keldysh | ||
| Jaroslav E. Pokrovsky | ||
| Michel Voos | ||
| 1976 | Wolfgang Helfrich | Contributions to the physics of liquid crystals |
| 1977 | Walter Eric Spear | Amorphous silicon devices |
| 1978 | Zhores Alferov | Heterojunctions |
| 1979 | Eric A. Ash | The physical principles of surface acoustic wave devices |
| Jeffrey H. Collins | ||
| Yuri V. Gulaev | ||
| K.A. Ingebrigtsen | ||
| E.G.S. Paige | ||
| 1980 | O. Krogh Andersen | Original methods for the calculation of the electronic properties of materials |
| Andries Rinse Miedema | ||
| 1981 | No award | |
| 1982 | Klaus von Klitzing | Experimental demonstration of the quantized Hall resistance |
| 1983 | Isaac F. Silvera | Atomic and solid hydrogen |
| 1984 | Gerd Binnig | Scanning tunnelling microscope |
| Heinrich Rohrer | ||
| 1985 | Jens Als-Nielsen | The experimental study of low dimensional physics |
| Michael Pepper | ||
| 1986 | Ferenc Mezei | Neutron spin echo spectroscopy |
| 1987 | Igor K. Yanson | Point-contact spectroscopy in metals |
| 1988 | J. Georg Bednorz | Discovery of high-temperature superconductivity |
| K. Alex Müller | ||
| 1989 | Frank Steglich, | Pioneering investigations of heavy-fermion metals |
| Hans-Rudolf Ott | ||
| Gilbert G. Lonzarich | ||
| 1990 | Roberto Car | A novel and powerful method for the ab-initio calculation of molecular dynamics |
| Michele Parrinello | ||
| 1991 | Klaus Bechgaard | Synthesis of a new class of organic metals and the discovery of their superconductivity and novel magnetic properties |
| Denis Jérome | ||
| 1992 | Gerhard Ertl | Pioneering studies of surface structures, dynamics and reactions through the development of novel experimental methods |
| Harald Ibach | ||
| J. Peter Toennies | ||
| 1993 | Boris L. Altshuler | Theoretical work on coherent phenomena in disordered conductors |
| Arkadii G. Aronov | ||
| David E. Khmelnitskii | ||
| Anatoly I. Larkin | ||
| Boris Spivak | ||
| 1994 | Donald R. Huffman | New molecular forms of carbon and their production in the solid state |
| Wolfgang Krätschmer | ||
| Harry Kroto | ||
| Richard Smalley | ||
| 1995 | Yakir Aharonov | Introduction of fundamental concepts in physics that have profound impact on condensed matter science |
| Michael V. Berry | ||
| 1996 | Richard Friend | Pioneering work on semiconducting organic polymer materials and demonstration of an organic light emitting diode |
| 1997 | Albert Fert, | Discovery and contribution to the understanding of the giant magneto-resistance effect in transition-metal multilayers and demonstrations of its potential for technological applications |
| Peter Grünberg | ||
| Stuart Parkin | ||
| 1998 | Thomas Maurice Rice | Original contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems |
| 1999 | Christian Glattli | For developing novel techniques for noise measurements in solids leading to experimental observation of carriers with a fractional charge |
| Michael Reznikov | ||
| 2000 | Paolo Carra | Pioneering work in establishing the field of magnetic x-ray dichroism |
| Gerrit van der Laan | ||
| Gisela Schütz | ||
| 2001 | Sumio Iijima | Discovery of multi- and single-walled carbon nanotubes and pioneering studies of their fundamental mechanical and electronic properties |
| Cees Dekker | ||
| Thomas W. Ebbesen | ||
| Paul L. McEuen | ||
| 2002 | Bernard Barbara | Development of the field of quantum dynamics of nanomagnets, including the discovery of quantum tunnelling and interference in dynamics of magnetization |
| Jonathan Friedman | ||
| Dante Gatteschi | ||
| Roberta Sessoli | ||
| Wolfgang Wernsdorfer | ||
| 2003 | Heino Finkelmann | Discovery of a new class of materials called liquid crystal elastomers |
| Mark Warner | ||
| 2004 | Michel Devoret | Realisation and demonstration of the quantum bit concept based on superconducting circuits |
| Daniel Esteve | ||
| Johan Mooij | ||
| Yasunobu Nakamura | ||
| 2005 | David Awschalom | For their work on ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronics |
| Tomasz Dietl | ||
| Hideo Ohno | ||
| 2006 | Antoine Georges | Development and application of the dynamical mean field theory |
| Gabriel Kotliar | ||
| Walter Metzner | ||
| Dieter Vollhardt | ||
| 2007 | No award | |
| 2008 | Andre Geim | Discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties |
| Kostya Novoselov | ||
| 2009 | No award | |
| 2010 | Hartmut Buhmann | Theoretical prediction and the experimental observation of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators |
| Charles Kane | ||
| Eugene J. Mele | ||
| Laurens W. Molenkamp | ||
| Shoucheng Zhang | ||
| 2011 | No award | |
| 2012 | Steven T. Bramwell | Prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice |
| Claudio Castelnovo | ||
| Santiago Grigera | ||
| Roderich Moessner | ||
| Shivaji Sondhi | ||
| Alan Tennant | ||
| 2013 | No award | |
| 2014 | Harold Y. Hwang | The discovery and investigation of electron liquids at oxide interfaces |
| Jochen Mannhart | ||
| Jean-Marc Triscone | ||
| 2015 | No award | |
| 2016 | Peter Böni | Theoretical prediction, experimental discovery and theoretical analysis of a magnetic skyrmion phase in MnSi, a new state of matter. |
| Alexei N. Bogdanov | ||
| Christian Pfleiderer | ||
| Achim Rosch | ||
| Ashvin Vishwanath | ||
| 2017 | No award | |
| 2018 | Lucio Braicovich | The development and scientific exploration of high-resolution Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). |
| Giacomo Claudio Ghiringhelli | ||
| 2019 | No award | |
| 2020 | Jörg Wrachtrup | Pioneering studies on quantum coherence in solid-state systems and their applications for sensing, and, in particular, for major breakthroughs in the study of the optical and spin properties of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond. |
| 2021 | No award | |
| 2022 | Agnès Barthélémy | Seminal contributions to the physics and applications of multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials. |
| Manuel Bibes | ||
| Ramamoorthy Ramesh | ||
| Nicola Spaldin | ||
| 2023 | Claudia Felser | Seminal contributions to the classification, prediction, and discovery of novel topological quantum materials. |
| Andrei Bernevig | ||
| 2024 | Andrea Cavalleri | His pioneering studies of photo-induced emergent phases of quantum materials: from enhanced superconductivity to the control of materials topology. |
| 2025 | No award | |
| 2026 | Libor Šmejkal | The discovery of altermagnetism, a third elementary magnetic class that combines ferromagnetic-like and antiferromagnetic-like characteristics considered for a century as mutually exclusive, and characteristics unprecedented in either of the two conventional magnetic classes. |
| Jairo Sinova | ||
| Tomáš Jungwirth | ||