Lars Onsager Prize

official
Organizer
American Physical Society
Why it counts
Awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding research in theoretical statistical physics; established in 1993 by Russell and Marian Donnelly in memory of Lars Onsager, first awarded 1995
Held
annual, recipients announced by the APS in October of the preceding year, presented at the APS March Meeting / Global Physics Summit in March; year = prize year

Reigning winners

Onsager Prize recipient · 2026

YearOnsager Prize recipient
2026 Mehran Kardar
2025 Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Jorge Kurchan
Leticia Cugliandolo
2024 Jacques Prost
2023 Peter Hänggi
2022 Boris Altshuler
David Alan Huse
Igor Aleiner
2021 Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii
2020 John Toner
Tamás Vicsek
Yuhai Tu
2019 Christopher Jarzynski
2018 Subir Sachdev
2017 Natan Andrei
Paul Wiegmann
2016 Giorgio Parisi
Marc Mézard
Riccardo Zecchina
2015 Franz Wegner