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16.THE IUVSTA PRIZES
In 1995, at the end of his period as President, T. E. Madey
(USA) proposed the idea of creating an IUVSTA Prize.
It was suggested that it should be designed
andpromoted as aPrizewith sufficient prestige
that it would encourage and acknowledge
scientific research and/or technological
achievement of the highest possible standard
whilst also bringing recognition and kudos to
the IUVSTA. His proposal was that national
and international companies associated with
the fields of interest of the Union would be
invited to make a once- only donation and
that the prize be financed by the income
from an endowment fund created from these
donations. It was estimated that if eight donors
contributed SFr 5,000 each, and the fund
was invested at about 5% per annum, then
the money available for the Prize at the end
of each triennium would be about SFr 6,000.
The EC gave strong endorsement to this
proposal and an IUVSTA Prize Protocol,
drawn up by Madey, was formally accepted at
the ECM-78 meeting at Debrecen, Hungary,
in May 1997. The Prize was presented for the
first time at the IVC in Birmingham in 1998.
Subsequently, the number of donors
increased, so that at ECM-85 at Namur,
Belgium, in April 2000, the EC agreed that
henceforth the IUVSTA would award two
prizes of equal value, one in the area of science
(the IUVSTA Prize for Science) and one in the
area of instrumentation and technology (the
IUVSTA Prize for Technology), on the occasion
of each International Vacuum Congress.
Thus, the purpose of the two Prizes is to
recognise and encourage outstanding inter
nationally- acclaimed research, and inter
nationally-acclaimed achievements in techno
logy and instrumentation, in the fields of
interest to the IUVSTA. Each Prize consists of
a cash award, a struck medal and a certificate
setting forth the reasons for the award.
Currently, the endowment for the Prizes has
been provided by generous donations from:
ANELVA; Balzers; Funai Electric; Intevac;
Leybold Holding AG; OMICRON Vakuum-
physik GmbH; Omicron; Osaka Vacuum;
Physical Electronics, ULVAC; SAES Getters;
TAV; Vakuumphysik GmbH; Varian Associates;
VAT; Kratos Analytical and IOP Publishing.
The recipients of the IUVSTA Prize
for Science and the IUVSTA Prize for
Technology until 2016 are listed in Table XIV
and Table XV respectively together with the
accompanying citation.
1
st
IUVSTA Prize Winner, J.F. van der Veen
and (1995-1998) triennium officers
From left, Ugo Valbusa (STD chair), John Robins
(President), J. Friso van der Veen 1
st
Award Winner)
andT.D. Madey (Past President).
2001 IUVSTA
Prize in Science
Professor Kunio
Takayanagi of
the Tokyo Institute
of Technology
2001 IUVSTA
Prize inTechnology
Professor Wolf-Dieter
Münz, Professor
of Sheffield Hallam
University
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