Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize

The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize is an annual award given by the American Physical Society "to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics." It was endowed by AT&T Bell Laboratories as a means of recognizing outstanding scientific work. The prize is named in honor of Oliver E. Buckley, a former president of Bell Labs.

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The prize is normally awarded to one person but may be shared if multiple recipients contributed to the same accomplishments. Nominations are active for three years. The prize was endowed in 1952 and first awarded in 1953.

Past winners

• 2007 James P. Eisenstein, Steven M. Girvin, and Allan H. MacDonald
• 2006 Noel A. Clark and Robert Meyer
• 2005 David Awschalom, Myriam Sarachik and Gabriel Aeppli
• 2004 Tom C. Lubensky and David R. Nelson
• 2003 Boris Altshuler
• 2002 Jainendra Jain, Nicholas Read and Robert Willett
• 2001 Alan Harold Luther; Victor John Emery
• 2000 Gerald. J. Dolan; Theodore. A. Fulton; Marc A. Kastner
• 1999 Sidney R. Nagel
• 1998 Dale J. van Harlingen; Donald M. Ginsberg; John R. Kirtley; Chang C. Tsuei
• 1997 James S. Langer
• 1996 Charles Pence Slichter
• 1995 Rolf Landauer
• 1994 Aron Pinczuk
• 1993 F. Duncan M. Haldane
• 1992 Richard A. Webb
• 1991 Patrick A. Lee
• 1990 David Edwards
• 1989 Hellmut Fritzsche
• 1988 Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, and Phillip J. Stiles
• 1987 Robert J. Birgeneau
• 1986 Robert B. Laughlin
• 1985 Robert O. Pohl
• 1984 Daniel C. Tsui, Horst L. Stormer, and A. C. Gossard
• 1983 Alan J. Heeger
• 1982 Bertrand I. Halperin
• 1981 David M. Lee, Robert C. Richardson and Douglas D. Osheroff
• 1980 Dean E. Eastman and William E. Spicer
• 1979 Marvin L. Cohen
• 1978 George D. Watkins
• 1977 Leo P. Kadanoff
• 1976 George Feher
• 1975 Albert W. Overhauser
• 1974 Michael Tinkham
• 1973 Gen Shirane
• 1972 James C. Phillips
• 1971 Erwin Hahn
• 1970 T. H. Geballe and B. T. Matthias
• 1969 J. J. Hopfield and D. G. Thomas
• 1968 J. Robert Schrieffer
• 1967 Harry G. Drickamer
• 1966 Theodore H. Maiman
• 1965 Ivar Giaever
• 1964 Philip W. Anderson
• 1963 William M. Fairbank
• 1962 Bertram N. Brockhouse
• 1961 Walter Kohn
• 1960 Benjamin Lax
• 1959 Conyers Herring
• 1958 Nicolaas Bloembergen
• 1957 Charles Kittel
• 1956 Clifford G. Shull
• 1955 LeRoy Apker
• 1954 John Bardeen
• 1953 William Shockley