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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.”


Dr. Dai Aoki (C5)
CEA-Grenoble, France

Contributions
For his contribution in the discovery of co-existence of
superconductivity and ferromagnetism in URhGe

Dr. Kostya Novoselov (C5)
University of Manchester, UK

Contributions
For his contribution in the discovery of graphene and for pioneering
studies of its extraordinary properties

Dr. Viktor Tsepelin (C5)
Lancaster University, UK

Contributions
For the development of new experimental techniques and key discoveries
in the fields of 3He crystals and quantum turbulence

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


Prof. Yasaman Farzan (C11)
Assistant Professor at the Institute for studies in
Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran

Contributions
Professor Yasaman Farzan is well know for her
contributions to theoretical neutrino physics.


Prof. Kai-Feng Chen (C11)
Professor Kai-Feng Chen is a post-doc at National Taiwan University,
working at Belle and CMS.

Contributions
He has made several outstanding contributions
in the analysis of Belle data
(Experiment at KEK an Bottoms physics).


Dr. Michael Van Zeeland (C16)
General Atomics, San Diego, Ca. USA

Contributions
" For having, at an early stage in his career, demonstrated excellent
skills in all aspects of experimental work, allowing him to produce important
work on the generation of Alfvén waves, on the diagnosis
of Alfvén instabilities in fusion plasmas, and on the comparison
of Alfvén instabilities with theoretical predictions".


Doctor Naoki Yoshida (C20)
CSIRO Materials Science & Engineering,
Clayton, Australia

Contributions
"For methods of modelling the shape of nanostructures based on
experimentally relevant physical parameters"