We announce the first call
for the Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science of the European Physical Society
(EPS) sponsored by EURYSIS MESURES.
This new Prize of the EPS
has been created in the memory of Lise Meitner who was born in 1878 in Vienna
and died in 1968 in Göttingen, and will honour work in the large field of
nuclear science (experimental and theoretical nuclear physics, and all areas of
applications of nuclear science representing the breadth and strength of
European Nuclear Physics).
Regulations:
The Prize shall be awarded
to one or more researchers every two years.
The Prize shall be awarded
without restrictions on nationality, sex, race or religion.
The Prize shall consist of a
medal, a diploma and a money amount of 5.000 Euro.
The money for the Prize will
be provided by EURISYS MESURES.
Only work that has been
published in international journals can be considered in the proposals for
candidates to the Prize.
The NPB shall request
nominations for the Prize from experts in Nuclear Science and related
technologies.
Personal applications for
the award shall not be accepted.
Nominations shall be
reviewed by a Prize Committee appointed by the NPB. The Committee shall
consider each of the eligible nominations and shall make recommendations to NPB
on the basis of referee reports of
external experts.
The final recommendation of
the NPB and a referee report shall be submitted for ratification to the
Executive Committee of the EPS.
Nomination must include the
motivation for the award, a brief curriculum vitae of the nominee(s) and a
short list of major publications. Letters of support from authorities in the
field which outline the importance of the work would also be helpful.
Nominations will be treated
in confidence and although they will be acknowledged there will be no further
communication. Nominations should be sent before
8 July 2000
to the : Chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board
of The European Physical Society (EPS)
Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin Fax +49 30 8062 2293
Glienicker Str. 100 oertzen@hmi.de
D14109 Berlin, Germany