The International Advisory Committee for the series of conferences on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure has established a prize in memory of our beloved colleague Simon Eidelman (1948-2021).

Simon was a very important member of the hadron physics community.  He encouraged and supported young researchers and his scientific contributions to the field were numerous and will have a lasting impact on future generations.  Scientific obituaries were published in CERN Courier and EPJC. 

The Simon Eidelman prize is generously sponsored by EPJ.