Previous achievement award winners
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2019Bernard Dieny For contributions to spintronics applications including spin-valves and MRAMs and for strengthening the relationship between magnetics and microelectronic communities. |
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2018Roy Chantrell For contributions to the theory of interacting spin systems and application to the understanding of magnetic recording media and ultrafast magnetization processes. |
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2017Dr. William H. Butler For predicting the spin-filter effect and the resulting high magnetoresistance of MgO magnetic tunnel junctions, used by the HDD industry to substantially increase storage density |
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2016Luc Berger for contributions to theoretical studies on metallic ferromagnets crucial to data storage, nanotechnology and magnetism, including SWASER, current-induced switching, spin-transfer torque, relaxation, and domain wall resistance. |
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2015Takao Suzuki For contributions to the micromagnetics of materials with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy and their applications in magnetic recording media. |
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2014Randall Victora For contributions to the theory and simulation of magnetic materials, particularly magnetic recording media |
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2013Michael L. Mallary for sustained contributions to thin film magnetic recording write head designs; most notably for the invention of the shielded write head structure for perpendicular recording. |
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2012John Slonczewski For contributions to magnetic devices and storage, including prediction of the spin transfer torque effect in magnetic thin films, theory of magnetotransport and interpretation of magnetic reversal. |
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2011Jian-Gang Zhu For contributions to magnetic storage devices through magnetic modeling. |
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2010Isaak Mayergoyz For seminal contributions to the analysis of electromagnetic fields and nonlinear magnetization dynamics, hysteresis modeling, and service to the IEEE Magnetics Society. |
| 2009 Roger Wood |
| 2008 Jack Judy |
| 2007 John Mallinson |
| 2006 H. Neal Bertram |
| 2005 Robert E. Fontana |
| 2004 Yutaka Sugita |
| 2003 Carl Patton |
| 2002 Sun-ichi Iwasaki |
| 2001 Fred Hagedorn |
| 2000 C. Denis Mee |
| 1999 Dave Thompson |
| 1998 Stan Charap |
| 1997 Gordon Slemon |
| 1996 Koosuke Harada |
| 1995 Mark Kryder |
| 1994 Richard Barker |
| 1993 William Doyle |
| 1992 Yoshifumi Sakurai |
| 1991 Emerson Pugh |
| 1990 Daniel Gordon |
| 1989 Paul Biringer |
| 1988 Floyd Humphrey |
| 1987 Andrew Bobeck |
| 1986 Fritz Friedlaender |
| 1985 Joseph Suozzi |
| 1984 Harold Lord |
| 1982 Herb Storm |
| 1981 Fred Luborsky |
