Considering that the Nishina Asia Award has achieved the intended purpose, we have decided to discontinue the NAA. We would like to seek a new program to promote international exchanges. The NAA was established in 2012 as one of the activities of the Nishina Memorial Foundation to recognize outstanding achievements by young Asian scientists in the field of basic physics, and to inspire them in their early part. Over the past decade, however, scientific performances of Asian countries in basic physics have been remarkably strengthened, and with this, the inspiration power of this award has been gradually weakened to lead our decision to discontinuation. We would like to heartily appreciate your excellent help over the last ten years in nominating outstanding young Asian physicists for this Award. We commit to memorizing the past ten distinguished winners as shown below together with their citations.
2022 (Tenth)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2022 | Dr. Suvrat Raju | Professor, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India | “his original and influential insights into the resolution of the black hole information paradox and the principle of holography in quantum gravity.”The citation in AAPPS Bulletin Vol. 32, issue 1, Dec 2022 click here |
2021 (Ninth)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2021 | Dr. Wang Yao | Chair Professor, Department of Physics, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China | “his pioneering contributions to valleytronics in two-dimensional semiconductors and van der Waals heterostructures.”The citation in AAPPS Bulletin Vol. 32, issue 1, January 2022 click here |
2020 (Eighth)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2020 | Dr. Ying Jiang | Boya Distinguished Professor, International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, China | his seminal contributions to the understanding of structure and dynamics of interfacial water on the atomic scale.The citation in AAPPS Bulletin No.5 2020 click here |
2019 (Seventh)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2019 | Dr. Chao-Yang Lu | Professor of Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China | his outstanding contributions to quantum information science with single photons. |
2018 (Sixth)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2018 | Dr. Yu-tin Huang | Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan | his contributions to uncovering hidden symmetries and structures in S-matrix of gauge and gravity theories. |
2017 (Fifth)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2017 | Dr. Hongming Weng | Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China | his theoretical contributions to the discovery of Weyl semimetals. |
2016 (Fourth)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2016 | Dr. Seok Kim | Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea | Evaluation of Supersymmetry Indices of M2 and M5 Brane Theories |
2015 (Third)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2015 | Dr. Ke He | Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | his outstanding contributions to the first experimental realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect. |
2014 (Second)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2014 | Dr. Yuanbo Zhang | Professor, Dept. of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China | his outstanding contributions to the elucidation of electronic properties of monolayer and bilayer graphene. |
2013 (First)
Year | Recipients | Affiliation | Citation |
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2013 | Dr. Shiraz Minwalla | Professor, The Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | his seminal work which uncovered the deep relation between the equations of fluid dynamics and Einstein’s equations of General Relativity. |