2008 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize Winners


Dr. Sébastien BIZE (C2)
Laboratoire Systemes de Reference Temps-Espace
(LNE-SYRTE), Paris (FR)

Contributions
”For contributions to improvement in the precision of
caesium fountain clock, precise optical frequency
measurements and measurement test fundamental
physical laws.”

Mr. Dr. Frank HERFURTH (C2)
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
(GSI) Darmstadt (DE)

Contributions
“For contributions to the development of traps for
high-precision mass measurement of short-lives
isotopes and measurements that test
fundamental physical laws.”

Prof. Lieven Vandersypen (C8)
Kavli Institute for Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology

Contributions
Prof Lieven Vandersypen is the first and sole winner of the 2008
IUPAP YSP-Sp, “for contributions to the read-out
and coherent control of individual electron spins in
semiconductor quantum dots, with possible
application to quantum computing”.
The prize will be awarded in July 2008 at the
ICP2008 Conference in Rio