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Prizes

Here you will find news about prizes awarded by SCNAT or commissions and societies affiliated with the platform MAP.

We also report on the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Prix Schläfli

The Prix Schläfli has been awarded by SCNAT to the best scientific dissertations in Switzerland since 1866. In the MAP area, it is awarded in turn in each subject - 2025: physics, 2026: astronomy, 2027: mathematics, etc.

28.4.2026
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Andrea Weibel discovered that galaxies grow up surprisingly quickly

Prix Schläfli 2026 for Astronomy: He has always been interested in the “big questions of the universe” and immersed himself in the origins of the universe for his thesis at

29.4.2025
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Martin Sarott controls electric dipoles with light

Prix Schläfli 2025 in Physics: An anonymous scientific organisation is not his thing, which is why Martin Sarott chose to study material sciences at ETH, with its informal atmosphere. This

Image: Siebe van der Veer

Prix de Quervain

The "Prix de Quervain" is funded by the Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research (SKPH) and the Commission for the Research Station on Jungfraujoch (SKHFJ). The "Prix de Quervain" for Polar and High Altitude Research is attributed to young scientists for outstanding achievements in their MA or PhD thesis or other research projects. On even years it is awarded for polar research and on odd years for high-altitude research.

Echocardiography on Mount Säntis (2500 m a.s.l.): a scientist measures the cardiac output of a patient with pulmonary hypertension.

21.8.2025
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When ice crystals cause snowfall and people with lung disease climb to higher altitudes

Two young scientists are awarded the Prix de Quervain for their outstanding dissertations re-lated to high altitude research. Paraskevi Georgakaki is being honoured for her research into the role of

Image: Simon Raphael Schneider

The snow measurements used a combination of different instruments to investigate snow's physical and chemical properties

19.9.2024
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How the microstructure of snow in the Arctic influences sea ice and the global climate

Amy R. Macfarlane will be awarded the Prix de Quervain 2024 for her excellent and innovative doctoral dissertation at the ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche

Image: Calle Schöning

CHIPP PhD Prize

Every year, the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics awards a prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of particle physics.

6.10.2025
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CHIPP prize 2025: Top precision for top quarks

University of Zurich graduate Chiara Savoini wins CHIPP PhD prize 2025

Image: CHIPP

Gabriela Araujo, she also competes in science communication contests like Famelab

23.6.2024
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CHIPP prize 2024: When physics comes to life

Congratulations to Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo, this year’s winner of the CHIPP prize for the best thesis in particle physics! Gabriela is a neutrino explorer – exploring those events whose particular

Image: Gabriela Araujo

CHIPP Postdoc Prize

23.10.2025
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First CHIPP postdoc prize goes to PSI postdoc
Efrain P. Segarra awarded for his work on n2EDM
Image: CHIPP

Edith Alice Müller Award in Astronomy

Since 2018, the Swiss Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics (SSAA) has awarded the annual Edith Alice Müller Award for outstanding astronomy PhD theses in Switzerland.