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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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