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Winners of the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
The James Clerk Maxwell Prize is to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of the properties of highly ionized gases of natural and laboratory origin. It was established by Maxwell Laboratories, Incorporated in 1975 and is currently sponsored by General Atomics. Selection is made by a committee appointed by the President of the American Physical Society (APS) and the prize is awarded at the annual meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics.
Use the following list to navigate to the Maxwell Prize announcement published in Physics of Plasmas (from 1975 to the present).
| Year | Maxwell Prize Winners |
| 2010 | James F. Drake |
| 2009 | Miklos Porkolab |
| 2008 | Ronald C. Davidson |
| 2007 | John Lindl |
| 2006 | Chandrashekhar J. Joshi |
| 2005 | Nathaniel Fisch |
| 2004 | Noah Hershkowitz and Valery Godyak |
| 2003 | Eugene N. Parker |
| 2002 | Edward A. Frieman |
| 2001 | Roald Sagdeev |
| 2000 | Akira Hasegawa |
| 1999 | John Bryan Taylor |
| 1998 | Boris B. Kadomtsev |
| 1997 | Charles F. Kennel |
| 1996 | Thomas Michael O'Neil |
| 1995 | Francis F. Chen |
| 1994 | Roy W. Gould |
| 1993 | Russell M. Kulsrud |
| 1992 | John M. Green |
| 1991 | Hans R. Griem |
| 1990 | William L. Kruer |
| 1989 | Ravindra N. Sudan |
| 1988 | Norman Rostoker |
| 1987 | Bruno Coppi |
| 1986 | Harold Grad |
| 1985 | John H. Malmberg |
| 1984 | Donald W. Kerst |
| 1983 | Harold P. Furth |
| 1982 | Ira B. Bernstein |
| 1981 | John H. Nuckolls |
| 1980 | Thomas H. Stix |
| 1979 | Tihiro Ohkawa |
| 1978 | Richard F. Post |
| 1977 | John M. Dawson |
| 1976 | Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth |
| 1975 | Lyman Spitzer |
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