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

Philosophical Magazine

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Philosophical Magazine Letters

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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

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.

Owing to the unprecedented number of applications during its inaugural year, the Editors awarded not just one, but three prizes. The winners for 2008 were:

1st Place Winner (received $1000)

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

2nd Place Winner (received $500)

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

3rd Place Winner (received $250)

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

There is free access to these three papers until the end of 2009.

If you are a young writer who has authored or co-authored a paper in Philosophical Magazine or Philosophical Magazine Letters during 2009, 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 can be found at: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tphm-prize.doc

We look forward to receiving your entry for the 2009 Prize, the closing date for which is 31st December 2009.

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