| Year |
Recipient |
Description |
| 2022 |
John Verboncoeur |
For pioneering leadership in computational plasma science research, education, student mentoring, curriculum innovation, supportive professional community leadership, and helping to define the field of computational plasma physics. |
| 2020 |
Rodney Mason |
For contributions to the modeling of collisionless and collisional plasmas over large time scales by implicit methods with applications to laser-plasma interactions and in plasma opening switches for pulsed power. |
| 2019 |
Ahmed Hassanein |
For contributions to recent innovation in computational plasma physics for applications to magnetic fusion in full 3D simulation of plasma evolution during transient events in ITER Tokamak device. |
| 2018 |
Bruce I. Cohen |
For contributions to the numerical simulation of plasmas, particularly multiple time-scale methods, and to their application to diverse plasma physics problems from laser-plasma interactions to tokamaks. |
| 2017 |
Alex Friedman |
For contributions to the science and practice of computational physics, including the development of novel methods and effective computer codes, and their application to fusion plasmas and particle beams. |
| 2016 |
John R. Cary |
For contributions to scientific discovery using computational methods across plasma physics, the development of computational algorithms and methods, and leadership of computational teams. |
| 2015 |
Mark J. Kushner |
For contributions in computational low temperature plasmas and applications, and leadership of the plasma community. |