KENNETH J BUTTON PRIZE The commitee is pleased to announce the 2010 Kenneth J. Button Prize winner: professor David B. Rutledge of the California Institute of Technology "For pioneering contributions to millimeter wave technology, including integrated-circuit antennas for sub-millimeter waves, imaging antenna arrays, and quasi-optical systems."   BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PRIZE In 1990 an award called "The Infrared and Millimeter Wave Prize", to be awarded “for outstanding contributions to the field of infrared and millimeter waves", was initiated by the Program Council (now known as the International Organizing Committee) and awarded in the first instance to Kenneth J Button, founder of the conference series. The following year it was agreed by the Program Council to rename the Prize “The Kenneth J Button Prize" in recognition of Ken Button's outstanding contributions to the Infrared and Millimeter Wave Community, both as a scientist and as the initiator and driving force of this series of conferences. The criterion for awarding the Prize was later changed to its present form: “for outstanding contributions to the science of the electromagnetic spectrum”.   NOMINATION PROCEDURE Any scientist active in the field of the Conference may make a nomination for the K J Button Prize. The closing date for receipt of nominations by the Institute of Physics in London each year will be the same as the deadline for submission of abstracts to the conference, normally about six months before the conference. The exact date each year can be found in the annual Conference Digest and on this website. The closing date will be strictly observed. Any nominations received after that date will be carried forward to the following year. Nominations for the 2011 Prize will be due Friday April 23, 2010.   To nominate a colleague, please click here for the nomination instructions.   Contact us for more info