Onsager Medal

The Onsager Medal is a scholastic presentation and award given on behalf of the Lars Onsager Family to a lecturer or professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The medal, designed by Harald Wårvik, commemorates the efforts of a single individual as chosen by the Onsager committee.^[1] The professorship awardee is expected to spend 3–6 months working at the University, the lectureship is expected to give a lecture.

Professorship

• 1993 George Stell, State University of New York, Stony Brook (statistical physics)
• 1994 Vladisav Borisovic Lazarev, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Moscow (chemistry)
• 1995 F. W. Gehring, University of Michigan (mathematics)
• 1996 J. M. J. van Leeuwen, Leiden University(statistical physics)
• 1997 Dick Bedeaux, Leiden University (physical chemistry)
• 1998 V. S. Varadarajan, University of California, Los Angeles (mathematics)
• 1999 Arieh Iserles, University of Cambridge (mathematics)
• 2000 V. Havin, St Petersburg (mathematics)
• 2001 David A. Brant, University of California, Irvine (chemistry)
• 2002 John S. Newman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California (chemical engineering)
• 2003 Miguel Rubí Capaceti, Facultat de Fisica, Departament Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (chemistry)
• 2004 George Batrouni, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France (physics)
• 2005 Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University (mathematics)
• 2006 John R. Klauder, Departments of Physics and Mathematics, University of Florida (physics and mathematics)
• 2007 Matthieu H. Ernst, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (physics)
• 2008 Peter S. Riseborough, Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (physics)
• 2009 Gerrit Ernst-Wilhelm Bauer, Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (physics)
• 2010 Elisabeth Bouchaud, Head of the Division of Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces at CEA-SACLAY, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (physics)
• 2011 George W. Scherer, W. L. Knapp Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
• 2012 Richard Spontak, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University
• 2013 Reinout Quispel, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Lectureship

• 1993 M. E. Fisher, University of Maryland (statistical physics)
• 1994 Benjamin Widom, Cornell University (statistical physics and physical chemistry)
• 1995 Werner Ebeling, Humboldt University of Berlin (physical chemistry)
• 1996 Russell J. Donnelly, University of Oregon (superfluids)
• 1997 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Collège de France (physics)
• 1998 Elliott H. Lieb, Princeton University (physics and mathematics)
• 1999 Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker, Utrecht University, Utrecht (colloid chemistry)
• 2000 Vaughan Jones, University of California, Los Angeles (mathematics)
• 2001 Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol (mathematical physics)
• 2002 Frank H. Stillinger, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University (chemistry)
• 2003 Ivar Giaever, Physics Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (physics)
• 2004 Leo Kadanoff, Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Chicago (physics and mathematics)
• 2005 Sir Brian Pippard, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (physics)
• 2006 Rodney J. Baxter FRS FAA, Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University (physics and mathematics)
• 2007 Robert B. Laughlin, Department of Physics, Stanford University (physics)
• 2008 Terence Tao, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles(mathematics)
• 2009 Bertrand I. Halperin, Department of Physics, Harvard University (physics)
• 2010 Ingrid Daubechies, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University (mathematics)
• 2011 Peter Hänggi, Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, Germany
• 2012 Arnold J. Levine, Institute for Advance Study, Princeton
• 2013 Stanislav Smirnov, Université de Genève, Switzerland

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