General information about FOM Prizes

FOM would like to draw your attention to four special scientific FOM prizes that are open to various researchers in the field of physics. With these prizes, FOM aims to facilitate research and knowledge utilisation at different scientific levels. The prizes are always presented to the winners during Physics@FOM Veldhoven in January. An overview of the four different prices is given below: 

The FOM Physics Thesis Award is awarded each year to the best physics thesis. Once every two years, FOM awards the Minerva Prize for the best publication by a woman about a physics subject. The aim of the FOM Valorisation Prize is to encourage the utilisation of knowledge from physics research. The prize is awarded each year to a Dutch researcher (or research group) within the field of physics who has successfully managed to make the results from his or her own research useful for society. Finally, with the FOM Valorisation Chapter Prize, FOM encourages PhD students to devote a separate chapter in their thesis to the valorisation of their doctoral research. This prize underlines the importance that FOM attaches to valorisation and is aimed at encouraging PhD students to look out for possibilities to utilise knowledge from their research.

Information about the prizes can be found on the relevant pages.