# Hannes Alfvén Prize

The Hannes Alfvén Prize is a prize established by the European Physical Society (EPS) Plasma Physics Division in 2000. The Prize is awarded annually by the European Physical Society at the EPS Conference on Plasma Physics for outstanding work in the field of plasma physics: "for achievements which have shaped the plasma physics field or are expected to do so in future."
It is named after the Swedish physicist Hannes Alfvén.

## List of winners

| Year | Recipient | Institution | Citation |
| 2000 | Radu Bălescu | Université Libre de Bruxelles | "for his outstanding scientific work in the field of statistical physics of charged particles and of controlled fusion." |
| 2001 | Vitaly Shafranov | Kurchatov Institute | "for his theoretical research on plasma equilibrium and stability and his outstanding contribution to the physics of magnetically confined toroidal plasmas." |
| 2002 | Marshall Rosenbluth | | "for his seminal theoretical contributions since the earliest days of fusion research in virtually all aspects of fusion plasma sciences which now form the basis of modern plasma physics." |
| 2003 | Vladimir Evgenievitch Fortov | | "for his seminal contributions in the area of non-ideal plasmas and strongly coupled Coulomb systems, and for his pioneering work on the generation and investigation of plasmas under extreme conditions." |
| 2004 | John W. Connor | | "for their seminal contributions to a wide range of issues of fundamental importance to the success of magnetic confinement fusion, including: the development of gyro-kinetic theory; the prediction of the bootstrap current; dimensionless scaling laws; pressure-limiting instabilities, and micro-stability and transport theory." |
| 2004 | Robert J. Hastie [de] | | "for their seminal contributions to a wide range of issues of fundamental importance to the success of magnetic confinement fusion, including: the development of gyro-kinetic theory; the prediction of the bootstrap current; dimensionless scaling laws; pressure-limiting instabilities, and micro-stability and transport theory." |
| 2004 | John B. Taylor | | "for their seminal contributions to a wide range of issues of fundamental importance to the success of magnetic confinement fusion, including: the development of gyro-kinetic theory; the prediction of the bootstrap current; dimensionless scaling laws; pressure-limiting instabilities, and micro-stability and transport theory." |
| 2005 | Malcolm Haines | | "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics; the x-ray yield was rapidly increased to the level of 2 MJ starting with pioneering work on the ‘Angara’ facilities in Russia, through the ‘Saturn’ project in the Sandia Laboratories to the present ‘Z’ device also in Sandia, strongly supported by the rapid evolution of the underlying theory of cylindrical wire-array liner compression." |
| 2005 | Tom Sanford | | "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics; the x-ray yield was rapidly increased to the level of 2 MJ starting with pioneering work on the ‘Angara’ facilities in Russia, through the ‘Saturn’ project in the Sandia Laboratories to the present ‘Z’ device also in Sandia, strongly supported by the rapid evolution of the underlying theory of cylindrical wire-array liner compression." |
| 2005 | Valentin Smirnov | | "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics; the x-ray yield was rapidly increased to the level of 2 MJ starting with pioneering work on the ‘Angara’ facilities in Russia, through the ‘Saturn’ project in the Sandia Laboratories to the present ‘Z’ device also in Sandia, strongly supported by the rapid evolution of the underlying theory of cylindrical wire-array liner compression." |
| 2006 | Paul-Henri Rebut | | "for his pioneering contributions to many topics in magnetic confinement theory and in the design of tokamak devices, many of which are now implemented in the ITER design." |
| 2007 | Friedrich Wagner | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | "for his continuing outstanding contributions to research into fusion by magnetic confinement." |
| 2008 | Liu Chen | | "for his many seminal works on Alfvén wave physics in both laboratory and space plasmas, for his continuing contribution of new ideas which have fostered creativity and promoted cross-fertilization in both these areas of research, and for his fundamental contributions in educating a new generation of researchers for which he is an example to emulate." |
| 2009 | Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn | Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | "for his seminal theoretical work in the fields of inertial confinement fusion (ICF), relativistic laser–plasma interaction and laser wakefield electron acceleration." |
| 2010 | Allen Boozer | Columbia University | "for the formulation and practical application of criteria allowing stellarators to have good fast-particle and neoclassical energy confinement." |
| 2010 | Jürgen Nührenberg | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics & University of Griefswald | "for the formulation and practical application of criteria allowing stellarators to have good fast-particle and neoclassical energy confinement." |
| 2011 | Patrick Diamond | University of California, San Diego | "for laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas." |
| 2011 | Akira Hasegawa | Osaka University | "for laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas." |
| 2011 | Kunioki Mima | The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries [ja] | "for laying the foundations of modern numerical transport simulations and key contributions on self-generated zonal flows and flow shear decorrelation mechanisms which form the basis of modern turbulence in plasmas." |
| 2012 | Eugene N. Parker | University of Chicago | "for his theoretical discovery of the transonically expanding atmosphere in cool stars as a basic phenomenon in the magnetic astrophysical cosmos." |
| 2013 | Miklos Porkolab | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "for his seminal contributions to the physics of plasma waves and his key role in the development of fusion energy." |
| 2014 | Patrick Mora | Ecole Polytechnique | "for decisive results in the field of laser-produced plasma physics, in particular for illuminating descriptions of laser light absorption in plasmas, electron heat transport in steep temperature gradients and plasma expansion dynamics into vacuum." |
| 2015 | Nathaniel J. Fisch | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | "for his contributions to the understanding of plasma wave‐particle interactions and their applications to efficiently driving currents with radio‐frequency waves." |
| 2016 | Sergei Bulanov | National Institute of Radiological Sciences & Prokhorov General Physics Institute | "for their experimental and theoretical contributions to the development of large-scale next-step devices in high-temperature plasma physics research," |
| 2016 | Hartmut Zohm | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | "for their experimental and theoretical contributions to the development of large-scale next-step devices in high-temperature plasma physics research," |
| 2017 | Ksenia Aleksandrovna Razumova | Kurchatov Institute | "for obtaining, for the first time, a macroscopically stable plasma column in a tokamak configuration; this led to the world-wide programme of experimental exploration and development of the tokamak concept for magnetic confinement fusion." |
| 2018 | Tony Bell | University of Oxford | "for seminal contributions covering cosmic ray acceleration by shocks, magnetic field amplification by cosmic rays, flux limited electron transport, generation of magnetic field by laser‑produced energetic electrons, collimation of electron beams for inertial fusion, prolific production of electron‑positron pairs." |
| 2019 | Victor Malka | Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée [fr] & Weizmann Institute of Science | "for major contributions to the development of compact laser-plasma accelerators, and to their innovative applications to science and society, which span ultra-fast phenomena, accelerator physics, medicine, radiobiology, chemistry and material science." |
| 2019 | Toshiki Tajima | University of California, Irvine | "for seminal, broad, and novel contributions to plasma physics and plasma-based accelerator physics, including the concept of laser wakefield acceleration." |
| 2020 | Annick Pouquet | University of Colorado Boulder | "for fundamental contributions to quantifying energy transfer in magneto-fluid turbulence... [which] include predicting the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, extending the accessible frontier of nonlinear numerical computations, and key steps forward in the analytical theory of turbulence. ... [Pouquet's] work has facilitated remarkable advances in the understanding of turbulence in astrophysical and space plasmas." |
| 2021 | Sergei Igorevich Krasheninnikov | University of California, San Diego | "for seminal contributions to the plasma physics of the scrape-off layer and divertor in magnetically confined fusion (MCF) experiments, including the physics of "blobs", divertor plasma detachment, and dust, together with atomic physics effects." |
| 2022 | Xavier Garbet | CEA | "for important contributions to the theory of the mesoscopic dynamics of magnetically confined fusion (MCF) plasmas: specifically, to understanding turbulence spreading, flux-driven gyrokinetic simulations, transport barriers, up-gradient transport and edge instabilities." |
| 2023 | Pisin Chen | National Taiwan University | for proposing, demonstrating and conducting impressive ground-breaking experiments on plasma wakefield accelerators driven by particle beams, thus firmly establishing the new concept of plasma acceleration and their applications in the scientific community. |
| 2023 | James Benjamin Rosenzweig | UCLA | for proposing, demonstrating and conducting impressive ground-breaking experiments on plasma wakefield accelerators driven by particle beams, thus firmly establishing the new concept of plasma acceleration and their applications in the scientific community. |
| 2023 | Chandrashekhar Janardan Joshi | UCLA | for proposing, demonstrating and conducting impressive ground-breaking experiments on plasma wakefield accelerators driven by particle beams, thus firmly establishing the new concept of plasma acceleration and their applications in the scientific community. |
| 2024 | Tünde Fülöp | Chalmers University of Technology | for outstanding contributions to theoretical plasma physics, yielding groundbreaking results that significantly impact the understanding and optimization of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. |
| 2024 | Per Helander | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | for outstanding contributions to theoretical plasma physics, yielding groundbreaking results that significantly impact the understanding and optimization of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. |