[PhilPhys] Last Reminder: Call for nominations for the 2025 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize: deadline October 6

Jos Uffink jbuffink at umn.edu
Sun Sep 28 00:11:30 CEST 2025


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> Dear  all,
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>> 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.*
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>>  Nominations for this Prize need to be submitted by a supervisor of
>> the nominee before *October 6, 2025.*
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>> We would also like to issue a special encouragement for the nomination of
>> candidates from underrepresented groups.
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>> For more details I refer to the attached  stipulations.
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>> Sincerely, the Jury,
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>>    Jos Uffink  (chair, University of Minnesota)
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>>    Guido Bacciagaluppi  (Utrecht University)
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>>    Klaas Landsman  (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
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>>    Christoph Lehner (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum
>> Information, Vienna)
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>>    Francesca Vidotto   (Western University, Ontario)
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>> 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:
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>> 2024 Silvester Borsboom
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>> 2023 no winner
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>> 2022 Sanne Vergouwen
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>> 2021 Jingyi Wu
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>> 2020 Emilia Margoni
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>> 2019 Grace Field
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>> 2018 Ruward Mulder
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>> 2017 Omid Charrakh
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>> 2016 James Read
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>> 2015 Joshua R. Hunt
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>> 2014 Benjamin Feintzeig
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>> 2013 Neil Dewar
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>> 2012 Martin Jähnert
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>> 2011 no winner
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>> 2010 Ronnie Hermens
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