Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics

official
Organizer
American Physical Society
Why it counts
Awarded annually since 1993 by the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding achievement in computational physics research; named after Aneesur Rahman, pioneer of molecular dynamics simulation; the highest APS award for computational physics
Held
annual, recipient(s) announced by the APS in October of the preceding year, prize presented and prize talk given at the APS March Meeting (Global Physics Summit from 2025); year = prize year

Reigning winners

Rahman Prize recipient · 2026

YearRahman Prize recipient
2026 Stefano Baroni
2025 Chris G. Van de Walle
2024 Gustavo Scuseria
2023 Pablo G. Debenedetti
2022 Giulia Galli
2021 Anders W. Sandvik
2020 Antoine Georges
Gabriel Kotliar
2019 Sharon Glotzer
2018 Hans Jürgen Herrmann
2017 Sauro Succi
2016 Matthias Troyer
2015 John D. Joannopoulos