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The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the 
List of Faraday Medal and Prize recipients and some Guthrie medal and prize recipients
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application.
It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...
in experimental physics
Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments. Methods vary from discipline to discipline, from simple experiments and o ...
. 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 rememberFrederick 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. Al ...
, 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." *2017Jeremy Baumberg
Jeremy John Baumberg, (born 14 March 1967) is Professor of Nanoscience in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge,Jeremy Baumberg's a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Director of the NanoPhotonics Centre.
Education
Baumb ...
, "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 Univer ...
," 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
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
and Edmund Linfield
Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector".
Persons named Edmund include:
People Kings and ...
, "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, "For his innovative and seminal experimental investigations into ultra-cold atoms and molecules"
*2012 Roy Sambles
Sir John Roy Sambles (born 1945) is an English experimental physicist and a former President of the Institute of Physics.
Sambles, originally from Callington in Cornwall, studied physics at Imperial College, London, gaining his BSc and PhD deg ...
, "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 s ...
"
*2011 Alan Andrew Watson, "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, "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 inorg ...
'"
* 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 ...
, "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
*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 B ...
* 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 li ...
* List of awards named after people
This is a list of awards that are named after people.
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See also
* Lists of awards
* List of eponyms
*List of awards named after governors- ...
* 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
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* IET Faraday Medal
The Faraday Medal is a top international medal awarded by the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (previously called the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)). It is part of the IET Achievement Medals collection of awards. T ...
References
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