Follow ETOPIM on FlickrBeginning with the 2009 Meeting on Crete, ETOPIM International Society established a prestigious, academic Award, The ETOPIM Medal, to be presented at the ETOPIM Meetings.
Details of the The ETOPIM Medal are below. There is a downloadable form for Members to nominate a colleague for the Award
DETAILS OF THE AWARD
- The award is open to all senior researchers in the field of Composite Science worldwide
- Nominations are to be received by the Executive 6 months prior to the ETOPIM Meeting
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The Eighth International Conference on the Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM) was held in Rethymnon, Crete from June 7-12, 2009, convened by Costas Soukoulis and Maria Kafesaki. Left: Prof Ross McPhedran, Mrs. Muriel Landauer, Prof David Bergman At this conference, the inaugural award was made of the Rolf Landauer Medal of the International ETOPIM Association. |
Rolf Landauer was one of the pre-eminent solid state physicists of his generation. He was employed by IBM from 1952 on, where he had a key role in initiating a number of research programs, including those on semiconductor lasers and large scale circuit integration. His research was influential in a broad spectrum of areas, and continues to be important to the challenge of making ever denser and faster systems for computation and information handling. He is also internationally renowned for his seminal contributions to the physics of inhomogeneous media and to the physics of information processing. He was a Member of the US National Academies of Engineering and of Science, the European Academy of Science and the Arts and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
Rolf Landauer’s contributions to the physics of inhomogeneous media were described at ETOPIM 8 by one of his long-term colleagues and scientific admirer, Professor Bert Halperin of Harvard University.
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The award recognizes research excellence in the field of composite science. In 2009 it was posthumously awarded to Rolf Landauer, and was accepted by Mrs. Muriel Landauer and son, Mr. Thomas Landauer (pictured). 
ETOPIM researchers are cross-disciplinary in their research and so may not receive due recognition in more specialist fields which impinge on their work, but where awards are made more narrowly.
The Rolf Landauer Medal of the International ETOPIM Association was designed by Professor Ross McPhedran, with layout by Magic Touch, and struck by Amor Badge Company, Sydney. |
The Lycurgus Cup is held in thecollectio of the British Museum, London. |
It is based on the cup of antiquity, the first record and earliest extant example of the use of metamaterials, The Lycurgus Cup.