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Professor Malcolm G. Haines, of Imperial College, London
Dr. Thomas W.L. Sanford, of Sandia Laboratories, USA
Prof. Valentin P. Smirnov of the Kurchatov RRC, Moscow

"For their combined development of an ultra-bright radiation source using multi-wire array Z-pinch pulsed power configurations from initial experiments on the Angara facility in Russia, through to the Z project in Sandia, resulting in electrical to radiation energy conversion efficiency over 15%, radiated energy of 2MJ and pulsed power levels of 200TW, representing one of the fastest developments in this field over the recent decades"

The prize will be presented at the Annual Conference of the Division, to be held in Tarragona, Spain from 27 June to 1 July.