The Wohlfarth Memorial Lecture, and the Wohlfarth Lectureship, is a lecture and prize given at the UK-based Institute of Physics' annual Magnetism Conference. It is named after Professor Erich Peter Wohlfarth, in honour of his "outstanding contribution [...] to the field of magnetism". It has been awarded since 1989.

Recipients

YearNameInstitutionLecture TitleConferenceLocation
2024Karin Everschor-SitteUniversity of Duisburg-Essen"Let’s TWIST Again: Topological Whirls In SpinTronics"Magnetism 2024Loughborough
2023Chiara CiccarelliUniversity of Cambridge"Extracting spin from an antiferromagnet at picosecond timescales"Magnetism 2023Manchester
2022Peter WadleyUniversity of Nottingham"Controlling and utilising antiferromagnetic order"Magnetism 2022York
2021Volodymyr KruglyakUniversity of Exeter"Magnonics: Of Spins and Waves"Magnetism 2021Virtual
2020Aurelien ManchonAix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM"Spin-orbit physics at magnetic interfaces"Magnetism 2020Virtual
2019Julie GrollierCRNS/Thales France"Neuromorphic computing with spintronic nano-oscillators"Magnetism 2019Leeds
2018Gino HrkacUniversity of Exeter"ATOMs - Atomistic to Micromagnetic modelling: from permanent magnets to magnetic hybrid materials"Magnetism 2018Manchester
2017Andre ThiavilleUniversity of Paris-Sud"New Magnetic Materials Exploiting Chiral Interactions"Magnetism 2017York
2016Jöerg WunderlichHitachi Cambridge Laboratory"Antiferromagnetic spintronics: Large magnitude magneto-resistance effects and current controlled switching"Magnetism 2016Sheffield
2015Laura HeydermanETH Zurich/Paul Scherrer Institute"Shedding light on artificial ferroic systems"Magnetism 2015Leeds
2014Atsufumi HirohataUniversity of York"Nano-Spintronic Devices"Magnetism 2014Manchester
2012Steven BramwellUniversity College London
2011Christopher MarrowsUniversity of Leeds
2010Guido MeierUniversity of Hamburg
2009Stephen BlundellUniversity of Oxford
2008Matthias BodeUniversity of Hamburg/Argonne National Laboratory
2007Caroline RossMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2006Stuart ParkinIBM
2005Thomas SchreflUniversity of Sheffield
2004Bob StampsUniversity of Western Australia
2003Amanda Petford-LongUniversity of Oxford
2002Wolfgang WernsdorferLab Louis Néel, Grenoble
2000Russell CowburnDurham University
1999Tony BlandUniversity of Cambridge
1998Stephen HaydenUniversity of Bristol
1997Mary DoernerIBM Almaden
1996David AwschalomUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
1995Dominique GivordLab Louis Néel, Grenoble
1994Roy ChantrellBangor University
1993Peter GrünbergForschungszentrum Jülich
1992Rolf AllenspachIBM Research – Zurich
1990R. CoehoornPhilips Research Labs, Eindhoven
1989Piers ColemanRutgers University

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