Support the Lars Onsager Prize Endowment
DCMP and GSNP are proud to announce that the Lars Onsager Prize has been fully funded!
The Onsager Prize is the oldest of the statistical physics prizes of the American Physical Society; because of your generosity it can continue in perpetuity.
Thank you for the contributions you have made to this success. Special thanks to Thomas Halsey (Chair), David Campbell, Patrick Charbonneau and Chris Jarzynski for their service and leadership in coordinating this campaign.
We are grateful to the 2020-2024 donors who so generously supported the legacy of Lars Onsager. See names below:
$10,000+
APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics
APS Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics
Fondation Capital Fund Management (CFM)
Fondation Daniel Iagolnitzer
David K. and Claude Hobson Campbell
James L. and Carol A. Smith
$5,000+
Robert and Patricia Hosken
Stephen W. Teitsworth
$2,500+
Stefan Andreev
Victor Bapst
Thomas Halsey
Chris Jarzynski
M. Cristina Marchetti
Pat and David Nelson
David Pine
Sid Redner
Chandra Varma
Thomas Witten
Sho Yaida
$1,000+
Salesforce
Patrick Charbonneau
Douglas Durian
Gary Grest
Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Scott Kirkpatrick
Enkeleida Lushi
Frederick MacKintosh
Alexis Malozemoff
Corey O'Hern
John J. Rehr
Yunqi Shao
Sriram Shastry
Ben Vollmayr-Lee
All other amounts
Wisk
Anonymous
John Bechhoefer
Kim and Yisroel Brumer
Bruce Bunker
Paul Chaikin
Shirley Chiang
Morrel H. Cohen
Jay Dorfman
Eduardo Fradkin
Steven Girvin
Alexander Gramolin
Bertrand and Helena Halperin
Peter Hanggi
Peter Hirschfeld
Jon and Betsy Machta
Lisa Manning and Will Wylie
Cynthia Reichhardt
Stephen Shenker
Soheil Soghadi
Cherrill Spencer
Tamas Vicsek
Smitha Vishveshwara
Eric R. Weeks
Clare Yu
Emma Zajdela
About Lars Onsager
This prize honors the memory and unique spirit of Lars Onsager and his passion for analytical results. Onsager invented the theory of quantized vortices in superfluid helium and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968 for his discovery of reciprocal relations in thermodynamics.
Learn more about the Lars Onsager Prize
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