[PhilPhys] Call for nominations for the 2025 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize
Jos Uffink
jbuffink at umn.edu
Sat Aug 23 00:23:02 CEST 2025
Dear all,
The Jury would like to issue a call for nominations for the 2025
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 6, 2025.*
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:
2024 Silvester Borsboom
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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