The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the
Institute of Physics in
experimental physics. The award is made "for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.
Historical development
* 1914-1965 Guthrie Lecture initiated to remember
Frederick Guthrie, 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," For her pioneering advances in the science of nanostructured and molecular semiconductor materials "
*2015
Henning Sirringhaus, "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
condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the ...
"
*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
Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory in Argentina designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: sub-atomic particles traveling nearly at the speed of light and each with energies beyond 1018 eV. In Ear ...
, 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 Univer ...
, "For his pioneering work in the field of '
plastic electronics
Organic electronics is a field of materials science concerning the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of organic molecules or polymers that show desirable electronic properties such as conductivity. Unlike conventional inorgan ...
'"
* 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 A ...
, "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
See also
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Institute of Physics Awards
The Institute of Physics awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications. It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as for PhD thesis submissions.
Bilateral awards
* The Max ...
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List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a l ...
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List of awards named after people
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Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize
The Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize is awarded for "excellence in communicating science to UK audiences". Named after Michael Faraday, the medal itself is made of silver gilt, and is accompanied by a purse of £2500.
Background
Th ...
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Faraday Medal
References
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Awards established in 1914
Awards of the Institute of Physics