The Wohlfarth Memorial Lecture, and the Wohlfarth Lectureship, is a lecture and prize given at the UK-based Institute of Physics' annual Magnetism Conference. It is named after Professor Erich Peter Wohlfarth, in honour of his "outstanding contribution [...] to the field of magnetism". It has been awarded since 1989.

Recipients +YearNameInstitutionLecture TitleConferenceLocation2024Karin Everschor-SitteUniversity of Duisburg-Essen"Let’s TWIST Again: Topological Whirls In SpinTronics"Magnetism 2024Loughborough2023Chiara CiccarelliUniversity of Cambridge"Extracting spin from an antiferromagnet at picosecond timescales"Magnetism 2023Manchester2022Peter WadleyUniversity of Nottingham"Controlling and utilising antiferromagnetic order"Magnetism 2022York2021Volodymyr KruglyakUniversity of Exeter"Magnonics: Of Spins and Waves"Magnetism 2021Virtual2020Aurelien ManchonAix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM"Spin-orbit physics at magnetic interfaces"Magnetism 2020Virtual2019Julie GrollierCRNS/Thales France"Neuromorphic computing with spintronic nano-oscillators"Magnetism 2019Leeds2018Gino HrkacUniversity of Exeter"ATOMs - Atomistic to Micromagnetic modelling: from permanent magnets to magnetic hybrid materials"Magnetism 2018Manchester2017Andre ThiavilleUniversity of Paris-Sud"New Magnetic Materials Exploiting Chiral Interactions"Magnetism 2017York2016Jöerg WunderlichHitachi Cambridge Laboratory"Antiferromagnetic spintronics: Large magnitude magneto-resistance effects and current controlled switching"Magnetism 2016Sheffield2015Laura HeydermanETH Zurich/Paul Scherrer Institute"Shedding light on artificial ferroic systems"Magnetism 2015Leeds2014Atsufumi HirohataUniversity of York"Nano-Spintronic Devices"Magnetism 2014Manchester2012Steven BramwellUniversity College London2011Christopher MarrowsUniversity of Leeds2010Guido MeierUniversity of Hamburg2009Stephen BlundellUniversity of Oxford2008Matthias BodeUniversity of Hamburg/Argonne National Laboratory2007Caroline RossMassachusetts Institute of Technology 2006Stuart ParkinIBM2005Thomas SchreflUniversity of Sheffield2004Bob StampsUniversity of Western Australia2003Amanda Petford-LongUniversity of Oxford2002Wolfgang WernsdorferLab Louis Néel, Grenoble2000Russell CowburnDurham University1999Tony BlandUniversity of Cambridge1998Stephen HaydenUniversity of Bristol1997Mary DoernerIBM Almaden1996David AwschalomUniversity of California, Santa Barbara1995Dominique GivordLab Louis Néel, Grenoble1994Roy ChantrellBangor University1993Peter GrünbergForschungszentrum Jülich1992Rolf AllenspachIBM Research – Zurich1990R. CoehoornPhilips Research Labs, Eindhoven1989Piers ColemanRutgers University

See also

Institute of Physics Institute of Physics Awards

References