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Minerva Prize
The Minerva Prize is awarded once every two years to a female writer of the best physics publication in order to draw attention to the research of female physicists. The Minerva Prize is a conferred honour and the laureate is an inspiring example to other women.
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Presentation Minerva Prize 2011
Presentation of the Minerva Prize 2011 to Prof.dr. Maria Antonietta Loi, by Prof.dr.ir. Jos Benschop.
Photo: Bram Saeys
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Mirjam Leunissen
Winner of the Minerva Prize 2010.
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Marika Taylor
Winner of the Minerva Prize 2008.
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Sylvie Roke
Winner of the Minerva Prize 2006.
Photo: Ton Minnen/NFP
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Ute Ebert
Winner of the Minerva Prize 2004.
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The next Minerva Prize shall be awarded at the start of 2012. The date for nominating or registering candidates was
1 April 2011. The prize consists of a bronze statuette as well as a payment of 5.000 euro that the laureate is free to use as she wishes. The regulations for the Minerva Prize can be found in PDF at the top right of this page. There is considerable competition for this prize (about 30 submissions). The prize winners have notable results and/or careers.
Minerva Prize winners and their publications:
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Maria Antoinietta Loi
(2011*)
Nanohybrids for Photonic Devices: Encapsulation of Conjugated Oligomers in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Towards Nanohybrids for Photonic Devices, geschreven door Maria Antonietta Loi, Jia Gao, Fabrizio Cordella, Pascal Blondeau, Enzo Menna, Barbora Bártová, Cécile Hébert, Sorin Lazar, Gianluigi A. Botton, Matus Milko en Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Advanced Materials 14 (2010).
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Mirjam Leunissen (2010)
'Switchable self-protected attractions in DNA-functionalized colloids', M.E. Leunissen, R. Dreyfus, F.C. Cheong, D.G. Grier, R. Sha, N.C. Seeman and P.M. Chaikin, Nature Materials 8, 590 (2009).
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Marika Taylor (2008)
'Fuzzball solutions for black holes and D1-brane-D5-brane microstates', Kostas Skenderis and Marika Taylor, Physical Review Letters 98 (2007) 071601.
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Sylvie Roke (2006)
'Vibrational sum frequency scattering from a submicron suspension', Sylvie Roke, Wim Roeterdink, Judith Wijnhoven, Andrei Perukhov, Aart Kleyn and Mischa Bonn, Physical Review Letters 91 (2003) 258302.
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Ute Ebert (2004)
'Spontaneous branching of anode-directed streamers between planar electrodes', Manuel Arrayás, Ute Ebert and Willem Hundsdorfer, Physical Review Letters 88 (2002) 174502.
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Suzanne Hulscher (2002)
'Comparison between predicted and observed sand waves and sand banks in the North Sea', Suzanne J.M.H. Hulscher and G. Matthijs van den Brink, Journal of Geophysical Research 106 C5 (2001) 9327-9338.
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Marjolein Dijkstra (2000)
'Phase diagram of highly asymmetric binary hard-sphere mixtures', Marjolein Dijkstra, René van Roij and Robert Evans, Physical Review E 59 (1999) 5744-5771.
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Liesbeth Venema (2000)
'Imaging electron wave functions of quantized energy levels in carbon nanotubes', Liesbeth Venema, Jeroen Wildöer, Jorg Janssen, Sander Tans, Hinne Temminck Tuinstra, Leo Kouwenhoven and Cees Dekker, Science 283 (1999) 52-55.
* The Minerva Prize 2011 is actually the Minerva Prize 2012 (this bi-annual prize has been awarded for the last time in 2010). However FOM has decided to equalize the date of the Minerva Prize as from 2011 to the other FOM prizes.
The Minerva Prize is one of the activities of the FOm/f stimulation programme.
For further information please contact
Paula van Tijn, telephone +31 (0)30 600 12 22.
Regulation Minerva Prize (
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