Mendelssohn Award

Engineers and scientists working in cryogenics are invited to nominate an outstanding person as recipient of the Mendelssohn Award 2021/2022, which will be presented at the ICEC28-ICMC2022 in Hangzhou, China, from 25 to 29 April 2022. The awardee of the Mendelssohn Award 2019/2020, Guy Gistau, will receive his Award also at this conference (following the cancelation of the 2020 conference)

Persons to be honoured by the Mendelssohn Award will be selected by their work in cryogenic engineering:

  • New and promising solutions to difficult problems.
  • Promotion and encouragement of work in new fields of low temperature applications, for stimulating the cryogenic community’s interest in these fields and helping to establish them.
  • Long-standing contributions to cryogenics.

The Award was established in memory of Kurt Mendelssohn (1906-1982), the founder of the International Cryogenic Engineering Committee.


The previous Award winners were:

1986K. Oshima Japan
1988P. RoubeauFrance
1990J. GardnerUK
1992P. Mason and D. PetracUSA
1994H. DesportesFrance
1996O. LounasmaaFinland
1998V. Arp and B. McArtyUSA
2000C. S. HongP.R. of China
2002G. ClaudetFrance
2004I and G. KlippingGermany
2006P. KomarekGermany
2008H. QuackGermany
2010S. Van SciverUSA
2012Sir M. WoodUK
2014R.G. ScurlockUK
2016Ph. LebrunFrance
2018A.T.A.M. de WaeleThe Netherlands
2020G. GistauFrance

To nominate a suitable person, please send your proposal including a short curriculum vitae, before 13th of September 2021 to the Chairman of the ICEC:

Marcel ter Brake

E-mail : h.j.m.terbrake@utwente.nl