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TABLE XIV.
RECIPIENTS OF THE IUVSTA PRIZE
FOR SCIENCE (1998-2016)
TABLE XIV.
RECIPIENTS OFTHE IUVSTA PRIZE
FORTECHNOLOGY (2011-2016)
Year
Name
Institution
Citation
1998 Johannes Friso van der Veen
University of Amsterdam (NL)
For his pioneering investigations of surface and interface structure, disordering and
melting through the development and application of Medium Energy Ion Scattering and
Surface X-ray Diffraction
2001 Kunio Takayanagi
Tokyo Institute of Technology (J)
For his accomplishments in the structural determination and characterisation of surfaces
and nano-wires at the atomic level, through the development of unique ultra-high
vacuum transmission electron microscopy and diffraction techniques
2004 Joost W. M. Frenken
Leiden University (NL)
For his pioneering work in the development and application of scanning probe
microscopy to study various dynamical processes at surfaces
2007 Albert L. Fert
University of Paris Sud (F)
For his discovery of the giant magnetoresistance effect and seminal research on
spintronics
2010 Péter B. Barna
Research Institute for Technical Physics and
Materials Science of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences (H)
For his outstanding results in understanding thin film growth phenomena and structure-
property relations in one and multiphase thin films
2013 Lars Samuelson
Lund University (S)
For his groundbreaking and continuing scientific work on the mechanisms underlying
epitaxial nanowire growth, enabling the bottom-up realization of radically new types of
highly controlled nanostructures, as well as for the development of broad and important
applications of nanowires in electronics, optoelectronics and life sciences
2016 Jean-Marie Dubois
Institut Jean Lamour
(CNRS/University of Lorraine, F)
For his outstanding contributions to the field of metallic glasses, quasicrystals and
complex metallic alloys, in both fundamental and applied research aspects
Year
Name
Institution
Citation
2001 Wolf-Dieter Münz
Material Research Institute
Sheffield Hallam University (GB)
For pioneering advances in vacuum based technology of material coatings which impact
a wide range of products used worldwide today. The scope of these products ranges from
hard coatings to increase the lifetime of machine tools, to mass production of decorative
finishes on various materials such as metals, plastics and ceramics
2004 Martin P. Seah
National Physical Laboratory (GB)
For his contribution to the science, technology and application of surface chemical
analysis
2007 Cedric W. Powell
National Institute for Standards and
Technology (USA)
In recognition of his establishment of quantitative basis for electron scattering in solids,
especially for surface analysis, as the result of his research and international leadership.
2010 Seizo Morita
Osaka University (J)
For his out standing contributions to the development of room temperature atom
identification and manipulation using atomic force microscopy
2013 John T. Grant
University of Dayton (USA)
For outstanding achievements in technology and technique development in Auger Electron
Spectroscopy and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, enabling their application to many
practical technological problems
2016 Taeghwan Hyeon
School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Seoul National University (KOR)
For outstanding contributions in the scalable production of uniformsized nanoparticles
with precisely controlled compositions and dimensions as well as pioneering research in
the design of metal oxide nanoparticles for medical applications
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