The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is pleased to invite you to the award of the 2023 Gilles Holst Medal to Petra de Jongh and the 2023 Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal to Shlomo Havlin. The medals are awarded every four years to researchers who make important contributions to application-oriented physics or chemistry and phase theory respectively.
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Award of the Gilles Holst Medal to Petra de Jongh and the Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal to Shlomo Havlin
Programme
- Opening by Marileen Dogterom, President of the Academy
- Award of the Gilles Holst Medal and the Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal; laudatio's by Ralph Wijers, chair of the jury
- Lecture by Petra de Jongh, Professor of Catalysts and Sustainable Energy Materials at Utrecht University and a scientific staff member of the Materials Chemistry and Catalysis research group at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science
- Lecture by Shlomo Havlin, Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel
This event will be moderated by Ton van der Steen, Chair of Academy Domain Natural Sciences and Technology, and will be conducted in English.
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Petra de Jongh wins Gilles Holst Medal. Recognition for her scientific contribution to a sustainable energy transition
Petra de Jongh (Utrecht University) will receive the 2023 Gilles Holst Medal. The jury praised her interdisciplinary approach, her tireless pursuit of knowledge, and the industrial applications resulting from her research on the role of nanomaterials. These include practical, circular solutions for a sustainable energy transition and the development of a new generation of batteries.
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Shlomo Havlin wins Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal
Physicist Shlomo Havlin, world renowned as an expert on phase transitions and statistical physics, has won the 2023 Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal. He receives the medal for his ground-breaking theoretical contributions to a range of topics related to phases and phase transitions; a field dedicated to how matter can behave in different states.
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Read more about the Gilles Holst Medal and the Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal
- Submit nominations:Is opening 1 April 2027
Gilles Holst Medal
The Gilles Holst Medal honours researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to applied physics or chemistry.
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Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal
The Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal recognises individual researchers who have made a significant contribution to phase theory.
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