IOCG Prizes

Frank and Laudise Prize
Schieber Prize (young author)

Frank and Laudise Prizes

History
At its meeting at ICCG 8 in York, UK, the IOCG executive committee discussed the creation of two IOCG prizes, to be named after the first two IOCG Presidents, F. Charles Frank and Robert A. Laudise. An international committee [R.F. Sekerka, USA (chair); F.W. Ainger (UK/USA); H. Komatsu (Japan); K.W. Benz (Germany)] was formed to work out the details. The final version (July 22, 1987) of the document IOCG PRIZES IN CRYSTAL GROWTH, as adopted by the IOCG Executive Committee, is reproduced below.

Prize Winners
1989 at ICCG IX, Sendai, Japan

• Frank Prize: Alexander A. Chernov (Russia)
• Laudise Prize: Jun-ichi Nishizawa (Japan)

1992 at ICCG X, San Diego, USA

• Frank Prize: Robert F. Sekerka (USA): For seminal contributions to the theory of crystal growth, including the theory of morphological stability of growing crystals.
• Laudise Prize: Viacheslav V. Osiko (Russia) and Joseph F. Wencus (USA): For understanding and development of the extremely difficult techniques which are required to grow reproducible large quantities of high quality refractory crystals, especially for the use of skull melting to grow cubic zirconia and for its succesful commercialization as a gem material worldwide.

1995 at ICCG XI, The Hague (Netherlands)

• Frank Prize: Pieter Bennema (Netherlands)
• Laudise Prize: Robert S. Feigelson (USA)

1998 at ICCG XII, Jerusalem (Israel)

• Frank Prize: Kenneth A. Jackson (USA)
• Laudise Prize: Isam Akasaki (Japan)

2001 at ICCG XIII, Kyoto, Japan

• Frank Prize: Donald T.J. Hurle (UK) and Sam R. Coriell (USA): For their great contributions to the fundamental aspects of crystal growth -- especially on cooperative research leading to the quantitative understanding of the role of convective flows and electric fields in crystal growth and morphological stability.
• Laudise Prize: Georg Müller (Germany): For his contributions to the development of technological aspects and computer modelling of crystal growth processes.

2004 at ICCG XIV, Grenoble, France

• Frank Prize: Prof. George Comsa (Germany): For quantative studies of crystal growth far from equilibrium.
• Laudise Prize: Prof. Tatau Nishinaga (Japan): For research on epitaxial growth of semiconductors.

 

Schieber Prize (Draft 2/28/03)

Purpose
To recognize a young author for his or her outstanding scientific publications in the field of Crystal Growth.

Nature
The prize consists of travel and accommodation expenses (to a maximum of USD5000) to the ICCG conference and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. The prize is awarded every 3 years during the ICCG conference.

Establishment & Support
The prize will commence in 2004 and is sponsored in full by The Journal of Crystal Growth (Elsevier Science, B.V.). The term of sponsorship and scope of the prize will be reviewed every 6 years.

Rules & Eligibility
The prize shall be awarded to one person who will be less than 40 years of age at the beginning of the ICCG meeting at which the prize is given. The publications for which the award is made should consist of a paper or series of papers, published prior to the opening of that ICCG. The criteria for selection should be scientific excellence, clarity of presentation and impact on the field of crystal growth. Scientists of all nations, regardless of the geographical or employment location at which the work was done, are eligible.

Nomination and Selection
IOCG will establish a committee to administer the prize. The committee will be chaired by an officer of IOCG and include the Principal Editor and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Crystal Growth. The committee shall be responsible for solicitation of nominations and selection of the winner (subject to final approval of the Officers of IOCG). Nominations (but not self nominations) are welcome from all members of the crystal growth community.

Prize Winners
2004 at ICCG XIV, Grenoble, France

• Schieber Prize: Dr. Jacek Goniakowski (France): For work on electronic and energetic trends for transition metals adsorbed on large gap oxides.

2007 at ICCG XV, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

• Schieber Prize: Dr. Verònica Bermùdez (Spain): For her publications regarding new approaches for measuring and engineering dopant domain structures.
  
• Frank Prize: Dr. Vladimir Voronkov for significant theoretical contributions, especially for the understanding of defect formation in silicon.


• Laudise Prize: Dr. J. Brian Mullin for basi LEC process, development of MOVPE, and discovec contributions to crystal growth technology, especially for invention of thery of non-equilibrium segregations at facets.


• IOCG Distinguished Service Award to I. Sunagawa (Japan) for his contributions in establishing the international crystal growth community, especially of younger generations, to encourage the understanding of crystal growth mechanisms, including organizing the Summer School "Hodankai" and serving as its School Master for nearly fifteen years, resulting in both enhanced theoretical and experimental work in Japan and throughout the world.

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