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Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, physics research, research and applied physics, application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...

(IOP) awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications. It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as for

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submissions.

Bilateral awards

* The

Max Born Medal and Prize The Max Born Medal and Prize is a scientific prize awarded yearly by the German Physical Society (DPG) and the British Institute of Physics (IOP) in memory of the German physicist Max Born, who was a German-Jewish physicist, instrumental in the ...

is awarded yearly by the

German Physical Society The German Physical Society (German: , DPG) is the oldest organisation of physicists. As of 2022, the DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 52,220, making it one of the largest national physics societies in the world. The DPG's membership peaked ...

and the Institute of Physics in memory of the German physicist

Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work of a ...

. The prize recognizes "outstanding contributions to physics" and is awarded to physicists based in Germany and in the UK or Ireland in alternate years. * The

Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize The Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize is a major European prize for Physics awarded jointly every year by the British Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Société Française de Physique (SFP). It is one of the four Grand Prix of the SFP and one of ...

is awarded jointly by the French and British Physical Societies for distinguished work in any aspect of physics that is ongoing or has been carried out within the 10 years preceding the award. * The

Harrie Massey Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (16 May 1908 – 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and the University ...

Medal and Prize is awarded biennially jointly by the Institute of Physics and by The

Australian Institute of Physics The Australian Institute of Physics was established in 1963, when it replaced the Australian Branch of the British Institute of Physics based in London.

. * The

Giuseppe Occhialini Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS (; 5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993) was an Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947 with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell, the latte ...

Medal and Prize is awarded to physicists in alternating years who work in Italy (even dated years) or the UK or Ireland (odd dated years).

Business awards

* The Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually for outstanding contributions to the organisation or applications of physics to a physicist in an industrial or commercial context in any sector. * The

Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize The Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (previously the Duddell Medal and Prize until 2008) is a prize awarded biannually by the Institute of Physics for distinguished contributions to the application of physics in an industrial, commercial or business ...

is a prize awarded for distinguished contributions to the application of physics in an industrial, commercial or business context. * The

Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize The Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics. It was established in 1981 and named after Clifford Copland Paterson. The prize is awarded each year for exceptional early career contributions to the application of p ...

is awarded for exceptional early career contributions to the application of physics. * The Lee Lucas Award * The Business Innovation Award * The Business Start-Up Award * The Apprentice Award * The Apprenticeship Employer Award

Education awards

The
Lawrence Bragg Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father William Henry Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by m ...
Medal and Prize

First awarded in 1967, is a gold medal for outstanding and sustained contributions to physics education. Previous winners are: *1967 Donald McGill (posthumously) *1969 John Logan Lewis *1971 George Robert Noakes *1973 Jon Michael Ogborn and Paul Joseph Black *1975 William Albert Coates *1977 Edward John Wenham *1979 Margaret Maureen Hurst *1981 Geoffrey Edward Foxcroft *1983 Charles Alfred Taylor *1985 Eric Malcolm Rogers *1986 Wilfred Llowarch *1987 James Turnbull Jardine *1988 Anthony P French *1989 J Goronwy Jones *1990 John Marden Osborne *1991 Kevin William Keohane *1992 J Colin Siddons *1993 Christopher Anthony Butlin *1994 Cyril Isenberg *1995 Bryan Reginald Chapman *1996 Brenda Margaret Jennison *1997 Timothy David Robert Hickson *1998 Maurice George Ebison *1999 Averil Mary Macdonald *2000

Frank Russell Stannard Russell Stannard, (24.5 December 1931 – 4 July 2022) was a British high-energy particle physicist. Stannard was born in London, England. He was a professor of physics at the Open University (later Professor Emeritus). In 1986, he was awarde ...

*2001

George Marx George Marx (June 22, 1838 – January 3, 1895) was a German-born American arachnologist, scientific illustrator and physician. He was regarded as one of the foremost authorities on spiders and highly regarded for his superb scientific illustrati ...

*2002 Robert Lambourne and Michael Harry Tinker *2003 Ian Lawrence *2004 Elizabeth Swinbank *2005 Ken Dobson *2006 Derek Raine *2007 Philip Britton *2008 Robin Millar *2009

Becky Parker Becky Parker is a British physicist and physics teacher based in Kent. She is a visiting professor at School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London. Early life and education Parker obtained a physics degree at the Universit ...

*2010 Peter Campbell *2011 Philip Harland Scott *2012

Katherine Blundell Katherine Mary Blundell is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a supernumerary research fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Previously, she held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and fellowships from the Roy ...

*2013 Bob Kibble *2014

Peter Vukusic Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

*2015

Paula Chadwick Mary Paula Chadwick is a British physicist who is professor and head of the Department of Physics at Durham University. Her research investigates gamma-ray astronomy and astroparticle physics. She is involved with the Cherenkov Telescope Array. ...

*2016 Stuart Farmer *2017 Mary Whitehouse *2018 Bobby Acharya *2019

Mark Warner Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Warner served as the 69th gove ...

and

Lisa Jardine-Wright Lisa Jayne Jardine-Wright (born 1976) is a physicist and educator at the University of Cambridge. She is Director of Isaac Physics, a Department for Education and The Ogden Trust supported Open Platform for Active Learning that supports scho ...

*2020 Nicholas St John Braithwaite *2022 Eilish McLoughlin *2024

Stephen Blundell Stephen John Blundell (born 1967) is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford. He was previously head of Condensed Matter Physics at Oxford, and is also a professorial fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. His research is concerned with us ...

The
Marie Curie-Sklodowska Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first wom ...
Medal and Prize

Established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it."

The Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize

Established in 2016, is awarded "for exceptional early career contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it."

The Teacher of Physics Award

Since 1986, celebrates the success of secondary school physics teachers who have raised the profile of physics and science in schools.

The Technician Award

To recognise the experience of technicians and their contribution to physics

The Goronwy Jones prize

Awarded to the top-scoring A-level candidate in Physics in Wales.

Outreach awards

* The Kelvin Medal and Prize is a gold medal instigated in October 1994 in recognition of the importance of promoting public awareness of the place of physics in the world, of its contributions to the quality of life and its advancement of an understanding of the physical world and the place of humanity within it. * The

Lise Meitner Elise Lise Meitner ( ; ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. After completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the second woman ...

Medal and Prize, established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions to public engagement within physics." * The

Mary Somerville Mary Somerville ( ; , formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorar ...

Medal and Prize

Research awards

* The Isaac Newton Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually to any physicist, regardless of subject area, background or nationality, for outstanding contributions to physics. It is accompanied by a prize of £1000, and the recipient is invited to give the Newton lecture. * The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded for outstanding and sustained contributions to

theoretical physics Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict List of natural phenomena, natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental p ...

. * The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually for outstanding contributions to

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 ...

to a physicist of international reputation in any sector. * The

Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize The Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics to recognise leadership in the field of physics. It was established in 1966 and named in honour of Sir Richard T. Glazebrook, the first president of the Insti ...

, established in 1965, is a gold medal awarded for "outstanding and sustained contributions to leadership in a physics context." * The

John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize The John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize is an award of the UK-based Institute of Physics (IOP) for "distinguished contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics". The award, named in honour of John Wil ...

, established in 2008, is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years, for distinguished research in theoretical, mathematical or computational physics. * The

Sam Edwards Sam George Edwards (May 26, 1915 – July 28, 2004) was an American actor. His most famous role on television was as banker Bill Anderson on ''Little House on the Prairie''.D.S.S. Form 1 Military Draft Registration Card completed on October 16, ...

Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions in soft matter physics * The

Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal ...

Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to physics applied to the life sciences * The Nevill Mott Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to condensed matter physics * The David Tabor Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to surface or nanoscale physics. * The

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; – ) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics. She ...

Medal and Prize is awarded for plasma or space physics * The

Edward Appleton Medal and Prize The Edward Appleton Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics for distinguished research in environmental, earth or atmospheric physics. Originally named after Charles Chree, the British physicist and former President of the Physica ...

is awarded for distinguished research in

environmental Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, referring respectively to all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism ...

earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...

atmospheric physics Within the atmospheric sciences, atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere. Atmospheric physicists attempt to model Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheres of the other planets using fluid flow equations, rad ...

. Originally named after

Charles Chree 200px, Charles Chree (circa 1900) Charles Chree, FRS (5 May 1860 – 12 August 1928) was a British physicist, an authority on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity, and for 32 years Superintendent of Kew Observatory. Chree was born ...

, it was established in 1941 and is currently awarded in even-dated years. * The Thomas Young Medal and Prize is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years, for distinguished research in the field of optics, including physics outside the visible region. * The Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize, established in 2008, is awarded biennially, in even-numbered years, for distinguished research in

atomic physics Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus. Atomic physics typically refers to the study of atomic structure and the interaction between atoms. It is primarily concerned wit ...

(including

quantum optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum chemistry that studies the behavior of photons (individual quanta of light). It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons and their interaction ...

) or

molecular physics Molecular physics is the study of the physical properties of molecules and molecular dynamics. The field overlaps significantly with physical chemistry, chemical physics, and quantum chemistry. It is often considered as a sub-field of atomic, mo ...

. * The

Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both Atomic physics, atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nu ...

Medal and Prize, awarded biennially in even-numbered years, was instituted in 1966, replacing the Rutherford Memorial Lecture. The award recognises distinguished research in

nuclear physics Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies th ...

nuclear technology Nuclear technology is technology that involves the nuclear reactions of atomic nucleus, atomic nuclei. Among the notable nuclear technologies are nuclear reactors, nuclear medicine and nuclear weapons. It is also used, among other things, in s ...

and is named in honour of Lord Rutherford of Nelson. * The

James Chadwick Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English nuclear physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired t ...

Medal and Prize is awarded "for distinguished contributions to

particle physics Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of Elementary particle, fundamental particles and fundamental interaction, forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies combinations of elementary particles up to the s ...

." * The Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to astrophysics or cosmology * The

Peter Mansfield Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfie ...

Medal and Prize is awarded for

medical physics Medical physics deals with the application of the concepts and methods of physics to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases with a specific goal of improving human health and well-being. Since 2008, medical physics has been incl ...

* The

James Joule Medal and Prize The James Joule Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics. It was established in 2008, and was named in honour of James Prescott Joule, British physicist and brewer. The award is made for distinguished contributions to applied physic ...

is awarded for applied physics * The James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize is awarded annually (previously between 1962 and 1970, every two years) to recognize outstanding early-career contributions to theoretical physics. * The

Henry Moseley Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (; 23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915) was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic numb ...

Medal and Prize is awarded for exceptional early career contributions to experimental physics * The

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish physicist who, as a doctoral student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but she was not ...

Medal and Prize was originally known as the 'Very Early Career Female Physicist Award' * The

Simon Memorial Prize The Simon Memorial Prize is an award that honors 'distinguished work in experimental or theoretical low temperature physics'. The prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics and is presented at the International Conference on Low Temperature Physi ...

Service to the IOP awards

* The President's Medal can be given to both physicists and non-physicists who have provided meritorious services in various fields of endeavour which were of benefit to physics in general and the Institute in particular. * The Phillips Award is awarded for distinguished service to the Institute of Physics.

Special Interest Group Prizes and Awards

Many of the Institute's special interest groups—sub-groups of the organisations members working in, or with an interest in, a specific area or sub-discipline—award prizes, typically annually. These include: * The IOP Astroparticle Physics Group Early Career Prize, awarded on odd-numbered years to early-career researchers working at an institution in the UK and Ireland in the area of astroparticle physics who 'have five years or less postdoctoral experience (allowing for career breaks)'. * The John Chubb Award, from the Dielectrics and Electrostatics Group for 'outstanding contributions to experimental electrostatics by early career researchers'. * The Mansel Davies Award from the Dielectrics and Electrostatics Group is for 'outstanding contributions to dielectrics by early career researchers'. * The High Energy Particle Physics Group Prize, awarded to 'an early career researcher for outstanding contributions to particle physics research'. * The Liquids and Complex Fluids Early Career Award, 'given biennially to an exceptional scientist, in the early stages of their career, working in the broadly defined area of Liquids and Complex Fluids'. * The Wohlfarth Lectureship, jointly sponsored by the Magnetism Group and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Magnetics Society UK and Ireland Magnetics Chapter, which 'recognises the outstanding contribution made by Professor Peter Wohlfarth to the field of magnetism'.

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