The call for nominations for the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize of 2026 is now closed.

The Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, established in 2000 by the organizers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S) and sponsored by Elsevier, Publisher of Physica C – Superconductivity and its Applications, is  awarded for outstanding experiments which illuminate the nature of superconductivity other than materials. The Prize consists of € 7,000 and a special framed certificate designed by Elsevier.

Selection Committee

Dirk van der Marel (Chair, University of Geneva)
Laura Greene (Florida State University)
Erik van Heumen (University of Amsterdam)
Rolf Lortz (LNCMI Grenoble)
Setsuko Tajima (Osaka University)