The James Joule Medal and Prize is awarded by the

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. It was established in 2008, and was named in honour of

James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy). Th ...

, British physicist and brewer. The award is made for distinguished contributions to

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. The medal is silver and is accompanied by a prize of £1000. The medal gained international recognition in 2018 when it was awarded to Sri Lankan scientist

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, whose work in part led to the establishment of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTec).

Recipients

The following persons have received this medal: * 2022 Michael Holynski, for distinguished contributions to the development of quantum sensors * 2021 Bajram Zeqiri, for development of acoustic measurement techniques and sensors * 2020 Richard Bowtell, for new hardware and techniques for biomedical imaging * 2019

Robert Hadfield Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, 1st Baronet FRS (28 November 1858 in Sheffield – 30 September 1940 in Surrey) was an English metallurgist, noted for his 1882 discovery of manganese steel, one of the first steel alloys. He also invented silicon s ...

, for infrared single photon detection technology * 2018

, for carbon

nanomaterials * Nanomaterials describe, in principle, materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale). Nanomaterials research takes a materials science-based approach to nan ...

* 2017

Henry Snaith Henry James Snaith (born 1978) is a professor in physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Research from his group has led to the creation of a new research field, based on halide perovskites for use as solar absorbers. ...

, for metal-halide perovskite solar cells * 2015 Judith Driscoll, for strongly correlated oxides * 2013 Paul French, for

fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy or FLIM is an imaging technique based on the differences in the exponential decay rate of the photon emission of a fluorophore from a sample. It can be used as an imaging technique in confocal microscopy, t ...

* 2011 Donald D Arnone, for

terahertz radiation Terahertz radiation – also known as submillimeter radiation, terahertz waves, tremendously high frequency (THF), T-rays, T-waves, T-light, T-lux or THz – consists of electromagnetic waves within the ITU-designated band of freq ...

research * 2009

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 theoretical analysis of

photovoltaic Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...

materials * 2008 David Parker, for

positron emission Positron emission, beta plus decay, or β+ decay is a subtype of radioactive decay called beta decay, in which a proton inside a radionuclide nucleus is converted into a neutron while releasing a positron and an electron neutrino (). Positron ...

particle tracking

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