The James Clerk Maxwell Young Writers Prize
Nurturing tomorrow's researchers in Physics and Materials Science

The Editors of Philosophical Magazine and Philosophical Magazine Letters are proud to announce, in partnership with the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, the award of a prize: The James Clerk Maxwell Young Writers Prize, which will be awarded annually to a talented young writer of a paper published in either of the journals.

Page Content:
a) 2011 winner
b) Read the 2011 highly commended article
c) 2012 Prize
d) 2010 Winner and Highly Commended Authors
e) 2009 Winner and Highly Commended Authors
f) 2008 Winner and Highly Commended Authors

Winner 2011

• Srikanth Patala, Northwestern University, USA
  The topology of homophase misorientation spaces
  S. Patala, C.A. Schuh
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 91 Issue 10 Pages 1489 - 1508

Read the 2011 highly commended article

• Denis Anders, Universität Siegen, Germany
  Application of operator-scaling anisotropic random fields to binary mixtures
  Denis Anders, Alexander Hoffmann, Hans-Peter Scheffler, Kerstin Weinberg
  Philosophical Magazine Letters Volume 91 Issue 29 Pages 3766 - 3792

There is free access to both papers until July 2013.

2012 Prize

If you are a young writer who has authored or co-authored a paper in Philosophical Magazine or Philosophical Magazine Letters during 2012, you could be a candidate for the next prize. To be eligible you should be a PhD student at the time of writing the paper or have completed your PhD within the two previous years. You will also need to be nominated by your supervisor or senior author of the paper. The nomination form and terms and conditions.

We look forward to receiving your entry for the 2012 Prize, the closing date for which is 31st December 2012.

2010 winner and highly commended authors

• Julian J. Rimoli, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (formerly of California Institute of Technology)
  A three-dimensional multiscale model of intergranular hydrogen-assisted cracking
  J. J. Rimoli, M. Ortiz
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 90 Issue 21 Pages 2939 – 2963

• Haneesh Kesari, Stanford University, USA
  Role of surface roughness in hysteresis during adhesive elastic contact
  Haneesh Kesari, Joseph C. Doll, Beth L. Pruitt, Wei Cai, Adrian J. Lew
  Philosophical Magazine Letters Volume 90 Issue 12 Pages 891 – 902

• Tanmay T. K. Bhandakkar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  Analytical model of transient compressive stress evolution during growth of high diffusivity thin films on substrates
  Tanmay K. Bhandakkar, Eric Chason, Huajian Gao
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 90 Issue 22 Pages 3037 - 3048

• Ning N. Zhou, Ohio State University, USA
  Large-scale three-dimensional phase field simulation of γ '-rafting and creep deformation
  Ning Zhou, Chen Shen, Michael Mills, Yunzhi Wang
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 90 Issue 1-4 pages 405 – 436

2009 winner and highly commended authors

• Giovanni Bonny, Nuclear Materials Science Institute, SCK-CEN, Belgium
  Fitting interatomic potentials consistent with thermodynamics: Fe, Cu, Ni and their alloys
  G. Bonny, R. C. Pasianot, L. Malerba
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 89 Issue 34 Pages 3451 – 3464

• Ignacio A. Figueroa, Sheffield University, UK
  High glass formability for Cu–Hf–Ti alloys with small additions of Y and Si
  I. A. Figueroa, H. A. Davies, I. Todd
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 89 Issue27 Pages 2355 – 2368

• Réka Trencsényi, University of Debrecen, Hungary
  Correlation and confinement induced itinerant ferromagnetism in chain structures
  Réka Trencsényi, Endre Kovács, Zsolt Gulácsi
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 89 Issue 22 Pages 1953 – 1974

• Tao Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  Topological and statistical properties of a constrained Voronoi tessellation
  T. Xu & M. Li
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 89 Issue 4 Pages 349 – 374

2008 winner and highly commended authors

• Ai Leen Koh, Stanford University, USA
  Preparation, structural and magnetic characterization of synthetic anti-ferromagnetic (SAF) nanoparticles
  A.L. Koh, W. Hu, R.J. Wilson, S.X. Wang, R. Sinclair
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 88 issue 36

• Minqiang Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  Energy dissipation in fracture of bulk metallic glasses via inherent competition between local softening and quasi-cleavage
  M.Q. Jiang, Z. Ling, J.X. Meng, L.H. Dai
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 88 issue 3

• Esther Carrasco, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
  Dislocation emission at the onset of plasticity during nanoindentation in gold
  E. Carrasco, O. Rodriguez De La Fuente, J.M. Rojo
  Philosophical Magazine Volume 88 issue 3