[PhilPhys] Reminder: Call for nominations for the 2025 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize

Jos Uffink jbuffink at umn.edu
Wed Sep 10 00:18:44 CEST 2025


On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM Jos Uffink <jbuffink at umn.edu> wrote:

> 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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