The Henri Abraham Award has been established to recognize Long (5 years or more) Distinguished and Meritorious Service to the IUPAP by a person who has not been a member of the Executive Council or a Commission Chair of the IUPAP.

It is named after an outstanding physicist Prof. Henri Abraham, who as the founding Secretary General of IUPAP from 1922 till his death in Auschwitz in 1943 had selflessly contributed to the advancement of our Union. The awardees receive a certificate of recognition and gratitude and are portrayed on the IUPAP website and through other communication means.

Henri Abraham (1868–1943) was a French physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France’s first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator. Henri Abraham contributed actively as the Secretary General of IUPAP from 1922 till his death in Auschwitz in 1943.

The call for Nominations will be open yearly and announced in the Calls for Nominations page. If you would like to nominate a candidate for this prize, please do it during the time that the call is open. Kindly include in the nomination:

• The nominee’s CV
• A note (no longer than 1 page) on how the nominee contributed to IUPAP, why those contributions are meritorious and the dates of the term of the IUPAP service rendered
• A statement signed by the nominator saying that, to the best of their knowledge, there are no concerns that IUPAP should be aware of regarding the nominee not satisfying the expectation that he/she meets the commonly held standards of professional ethics and integrity

All nominations should be complete, with all files in pdf, and emailed to: secretariat@iupap.org with subject “Henri Abraham Award” by the established deadline.