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title: "Bridgman Award"
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The Bridgman Award is a prize given every two years by the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT) for research in the physics, chemistry, or technology of high pressure science. The award is named in honor of Percy Williams Bridgman, Nobel Prize winner and famous pioneer of the physics of high pressure.


== Recipients ==
1977 Harry George Drickamer
1979 Boris Vodar, France
1981 E. Ulrich Franck (1920–2004), professor for physical chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe
1983 Albert Francis Birch (1903–1992), geophysicist and mineralogist, professor at Harvard University
1985 Nestor Joseph Trappeniers (1922–2004), professor in Amsterdam
1987 Francis P. Bundy (1910–2008), diamond synthesis under high pressure in 1954 at General Electric
1989 Ho-kwang Mao, Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C.
1991 Shigeru Minomura (1923–2000), professor at the Institute for Condensed Matter Research in Tokyo, later in Hokkaido and at Okayama University
1993 Arthur L. Ruoff, professor at Cornell University
1995 Bogdan Baranowski (1927–2014), professor of physical chemistry in Warsaw
1997 William A. Bassett (born 1931), professor of geology at Cornell University
1999 Vladimir Fortov
2001 William J. Nellis
2003 Neil Ashcroft
2005 Sergei Mikhailovich Stishov, professor and direct of the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2007 Takehiko Yagi, professor at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Tokyo
2009 Russell J. Hemley, director of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C.
2011 Eji Ito, emeritus professor at Okayama University
2013 Karl Syassen
2015 Paul Loubeyre
2017 Mikhail Eremets
2019 Gilbert Collins
2021 Tetsuo Irifune
2025 Renata Wentzcovitch


== References ==