The IUPAP’s Executive Council decided to grant the 2022 Henri Abraham Award to:

  • Judy Franz, USA
  • Lev Shchur, Russian Federation

This decision was approved by the IUPAP’s General Assembly of July 14th, 2022.

Judy Franz

Judy Franz, nominated by the USA Liaison Committee, was IUPAP’s Associate Secretary General in 1999-2002 and Secretary General in 2002-2005. She was key for the creation, establishment and development of the IUPAP’s Working Group on Women in Physics, WG5. She and her team organized the First IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, held in 2022 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. She was also a lead organizer of the World Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development, held in 2005 in Durban, South Africa, which served as the final international event for the World Year of Physics. As expressed in the nomination letter: “Not only has Judy Franz significantly helped IUPAP to achieve and sustain its mission, but her leadership has had an impact on physicists across the globe […] Her impact from her earliest years in IUPAP has contributed to the facts that IUPAP has succeeded in mainstreaming gender, developing countries are participating fully, and an action-oriented conference format has been developed. Judy Franz has significantly helped IUPAP to achieve and sustain its mission.”

Lev Shchur

Lev Shchur served on the IUPAP’s Commission on Computational Physics (C20), as regular member, in 1999−2004, 2011−2013 and, as Secretary, in 2013−2016. He organized the very successful XXV IUPAP International Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2013) in Moscow which attracted computational physicists from all over the world, in particular, many at early career stages. He has served on the advisory board  of this conference since 2001. As expressed in the nomination letter: “His activities contributed to the development of physics in the field of computational physics and the strengthening of the authority of the union”.