The newly established TOPTICA BEC Award for Lifetime Achievements 2021 recognizes longstanding important contributions to the field. Prof. Ho is the inaugural awardee of the Lifetime Achievement award for his longstanding broad contributions to our understanding of ultracold quantum gases, including his pioneering works on spinor condensate, fast rotating quantum gases, universal thermodynamics of strongly interacting Fermi gases, cooling mechanisms and measuring algorithms in quantum simulation, and spin-orbit coupled gases.

The past awardees of other TOPTICA BEC Prizes include Lev Piteavskii, Dan Kleppner, Immanuel Bloch, Markus Greiner, Ian Spielman, and Jean Daliard.

The prize consists of a 2500 Euro cash award and a certificate citing the contributions of the recipient. The prizes are awarded under the auspices of the biannual BEC conference in San Fellu, Spain and are sponsored by TOPTICA Photonics AG.

Read More: BEC Awards 2021 – Bose-Einstein Condensation 2021 (bec2021.org)