Each year, the Nuclear Fusion Editorial Board shortlist ten papers for the Nuclear Fusion Award.
Winners
2015
R.J. Goldston for ‘Heuristic drift-based model of the power scrape-off width in low-gas-puff H-mode tokamaks’
Read the shortlisted papers for the 2015 prize.
2014
Phil Snyder for ‘A first-principles predictive model of the pedestal height and width: development, testing and ITER optimization with the EPED model’
Read the shortlisted papers for the 2014 prize.
2013
D G Whyte for ‘I-mode: an H-mode energy confinement regime with L-mode particle transport in Alcator C-Mod’
Read the shortlisted papers for the 2013 prize.
2012
Pat Diamond for ‘Physics of non-diffusive turbulent transport of momentum and the origins of spontaneous rotation in tokamaks’
Read the shortlisted papers for the 2012 prize.
2011
H Urano, T Takizuka, Y Kamada, N Oyama, H Takenaga and the JT-60 Team for their paper ‘Dimensionless parameter dependence of H-mode pedestal width using hydrogen and deuterium plasmas in JT-60U’
Read the shortlisted papers for the 2011 prize.
Rules and criteria
- The Nuclear Fusion Editorial Board judges this award, considering papers published in Nuclear Fusion three years ago.
- Nominations are based on citations and recommendation by the Board of Editors. The winner, selected by secret ballot, is the one judged to have made the greatest scientific impact.
- Award winners are announced in October.
- Presentations for the winners are made at the Fusion Energy Conference. (Note that this is a bi-annual conference and so during non-conference years, the award winner is announced but the presentation is postponed until the following year.)
Additional information
- The prize winner is awarded with a cheque for $2500.