[PhilPhys] Call for nominations for the Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize 2024

Jos Uffink jbuffink at umn.edu
Wed Sep 4 00:21:28 CEST 2024


Dear  all,

The Jury would like to issue a call for nominations for the 2024
Hanneke Janssen
Memorial Prize which is awarded annually by the Radboud University in
Nijmegen for the best work in History and/or  Philosophy of Modern Physics,
done by a student as a requirement for a Masters Thesis. The prize carries
a 2000 euro award,  an invitation to give a talk on the awarded work in
Nijmegen, and an invitation to submit a paper for publication in the
journal *Foundations of Physics.* Nominations for this Prize need to be
submitted by a supervisor of the nominee before October 7, 2024.

We would also like to issue a special encouragement for the nomination of
candidates from underrepresented groups.


For more details I refer to the attached  stipulations.


Sincerely,

The Jury,



   Jos Uffink  (chair, University of Minnesota)

   Guido Bacciagaluppi  (Utrecht University)

   Klaas Landsman  (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

   Christoph Lehner (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum
Information, Vienna)

   Francesca Vidotto   (Western University, Ontario)



The Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize (HJMP)  was founded in 2010,  to
commemorate the life and work of Hanneke Janssen who died in a traffic
accident in 2008,  just after she had received her Master’s Degree (cum
laude)  on a thesis in History and Philosophy of Physics.


Previous  winners of the HJMP are:


2023 no winner

2022 Sanne Vergouwen

2021 Jingyi Wu

2020 Emilia Margoni

2019 Grace Field

2018 Ruward Mulder

2017 Omid Charrakh

2016 James Read

2015 Joshua R. Hunt

2014 Benjamin Feintzeig

2013 Neil Dewar

2012 Martin Jähnert

2011 no winner

2010 Ronnie Hermens
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