The IUPAP supports a number of awards for scientists at different stages of their careers. IUPAP Commissions are in charge of organizing the call for nominations and the process that leads to the selection of the awardees. Awardees are usually presented with their prizes at some of the major IUPAP sponsored conferences.
The major prizes honor the achievements of established renown physicists within the subfields of each Commission. Early Career Scientist Prizes (previous Young Scientist Prizes) recognize the contributions of early career physicists within these subfields.
The calls for nominations areadvertised in due time for each prize. The list of all Commission Prize recipients can be accessed from here and the list of Early Career Scientist Award recipients from here. For more details on the awardees, please visit the corresponding Commission pages.
The IUPAP has recently decided to create an Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist to recognize early career physicists who do research in interdisciplinary areas. Representatives of more than one IUPAP Commission will be involved in the organization of the selection process. The Awards will be given at the IUPAP General Assembly.
The IUPAP has also decided to recognize the distinguished long service to the Union through the Henri Abraham Prize. The call for nominations is openonce per year. The decision on the awardees is made at the Council and Commission Chair Meetings that are regularly held in October.
Diversity of candidates for IUPAP Awards
Commission chairs must guarantee that the pool of candidates for Commission and Early Career Scientist awards be sufficiently diverse, particularly in terms of gender and other underrepresented groups and geographical regions. The need to achieve this goal should be included in the call so that potential nominators take it into consideration when deciding on possible nominees. The call should be written using inclusive language asking nominators to provide, whenever possible, information on the gender of the nominee in the application file. Commission chairs are in charge of monitoring that the list of proposed candidates is sufficiently diverse as the application deadline is approached, sending reminders and eventually extending the deadline when it is not. In order to monitor progress, Commission chairs are requested to provide, whenever possible, gender segregated statistics on the number of candidates that are nominated, shortlisted and awarded
Professional ethics and scientific integrity of candidates for IUPAP Awards.
Recipients of IUPAP Awards are expected to meet the commonly held standards of professional ethics and scientific integrity. Nominators should include a statement saying that, to the best of their knowledge, there are no concerns that IUPAP should be aware of regarding the nominee satisfying this expectation.
