The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the

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. The award is made "for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate. Faraday-Millikan-Gale-1913

Historical development

* 1914-1965 Guthrie Lecture initiated to remember

Frederick Guthrie Frederick Guthrie FRS FRSE (15 October 1833 – 21 October 1886) was a British physicist and chemist and academic author. He was the son of Alexander Guthrie, a London tradesman, and the younger brother of mathematician Francis Guthrie. Alon ...

, founder of the Physical Society (which merged with the Institute of Physics in 1960). * 1966-2007 Guthrie Medal and Prize (in response to changed conditions from when the lecture was first established). From 1992, it became one of the Institute's Premier Awards. * 2008–present Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

Medalists and lecturers

Faraday medalists

* 2019 Roy Taylor, "For his extensive, internationally leading contributions to the development of spectrally diverse, ultrafast-laser sources and pioneering fundamental studies of nonlinear fibre optics that have translated to scientific and commercial application." * 2018 Jennifer Thomas, "For her outstanding investigations into the physics of neutrino oscillations, in particular her leadership of the MINOS/MINOS+ long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment." *2017 Jeremy Baumberg, "For his investigations of many ingenious nanostructures supporting novel and precisely engineered plasmonic phenomena relevant to single molecule and atom dynamics, Raman spectroscopies and metamaterials applications." *2016

Jenny Nelson Jenny Nelson is Professor of Physics in the Blackett Laboratory and Head of the Climate change mitigation team at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College London. Education Nelson was educated at the Universi ...

," For her pioneering advances in the science of nanostructured and molecular semiconductor materials " *2015

Henning Sirringhaus Henning Sirringhaus is Hitachi Professor of Semiconductor device, Electron Device Physics, Head of the Microelectronics Group and a member of the Optoelectronics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory. He is also a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambr ...

, "For transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as our ability to exploit them" *2014 Alexander Giles Davies and Edmund Linfield, "For their outstanding and sustained contributions to the physics and technology of the far-infrared (terahertz) frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum" *2013

Edward Hinds Edward Allen Hinds FInstP FAPS FRS (born 8 Sept 1949) is a British physicist noted for his work with cold matter. He was educated at Dame Allan's School in Newcastle before being offered a place at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculate ...

, "For his innovative and seminal experimental investigations into ultra-cold atoms and molecules" *2012 Roy Sambles, "For his pioneering research in experimental

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" *2011

Alan Andrew Watson Alan Andrew Watson, FRS, (born 26 September 1938 in Edinburgh) is physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, England. Education Watson was educated at the University of Edinburgh (BSc 1960 first class honours in physics) ...

, "For his outstanding leadership within the

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, and the insights he has provided to the origin and nature of ultra high energy cosmic rays" *2010

Athene Donald Dame Athene Margaret Donald (née Griffith; born 15 May 1953) is a British physicist. She is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. Outside the University, she chaired the ...

, "For her many highly original studies of the structures and behaviour of polymers both synthetic and natural" * 2009

Donal Bradley Donal Donat Conor Bradley is the Vice President for Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. From 2015 until 2019, he was head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division of the Univers ...

, "For his pioneering work in the field of '

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'" * 2008

Roger Cowley Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstP (24 February 1939 – 27 January 2015) was an English physicist who specialised in the excitations of solids. Biography Cowley was born in Woodford Green, Essex, on 24 February 1939. His father, Cecil Ar ...

, "For pioneering work in the development and application of neutron and X-ray scattering techniques to the physics of a wide range of important solid and liquid-state systems"

Guthrie medalists

Guthrie lecturers

External links

List of Faraday Medal and Prize recipients and some Guthrie medal and prize recipients

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faraday Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics Awards established in 1914 Awards of the Institute of Physics