List of IOP medals and prizes
TheInstitute of Physics (IOP) awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications.[1][2][3] It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as forPhD thesis submissions.[4]
- TheKatharine 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.[11]
- TheDennis Gabor Medal and Prize is a prize awarded for distinguished contributions to the application of physics in an industrial, commercial or business context.[12]
- TheClifford Paterson Medal and Prize is awarded for exceptional early career contributions to the application of physics.[13]
- The Lee Lucas Award[14]
- The Business Innovation Award[15]
- The Business Start-Up Award[16][17]
- The Apprentice Award
- The Apprenticeship Employer Award
First awarded in 1967, is a gold medal for outstanding and sustained contributions to physics education.[18] Previous winners are:[19]
Established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it."[24]
Established in 2016, is awarded "for exceptional early career contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it."[25]
The Teacher of Physics Award
[edit]Since 1986, celebrates the success of secondary school physics teachers who have raised the profile of physics and science in schools.[26][27][28][29]
The Technician Award
[edit]To recognise the experience of technicians and their contribution to physics[30]
The Goronwy Jones prize
[edit]Awarded to the top-scoring A-level candidate in Physics in Wales.[31]
- 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.[32]
- TheLise Meitner Medal and Prize, established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions to public engagement within physics."[24]
- TheMary Somerville Medal and Prize[33]
- TheIsaac 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.[34]
- ThePaul Dirac Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded for outstanding and sustained contributions totheoretical physics.[35]
- TheMichael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually for outstanding contributions toexperimental physics to a physicist of international reputation in any sector.[36]
- TheRichard Glazebrook Medal and Prize, established in 1965, is a gold medal awarded for "outstanding and sustained contributions to leadership in a physics context."[37]
- TheJohn William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize, established in 2008, is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years, for distinguished research in theoretical, mathematical or computational physics.[38]
- TheSam Edwards Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions in soft matter physics[39]
- TheRosalind Franklin Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to physics applied to the life sciences[40]
- TheNevill Mott Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to condensed matter physics[41][42]
- TheDavid Tabor Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to surface or nanoscale physics.[43]
- TheCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize is awarded for plasma or space physics[44][45]
- TheEdward Appleton Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished research inenvironmental,earth oratmospheric physics. Originally named afterCharles Chree, it was established in 1941 and is currently awarded in even-dated years.[46]
- TheThomas 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.[47]
- TheJoseph Thomson Medal and Prize, established in 2008, is awarded biennially, in even-numbered years, for distinguished research inatomic physics (includingquantum optics) ormolecular physics.[48]
- TheErnest Rutherford Medal and Prize, awarded biennially in even-numbered years, was instituted in 1966, replacing the Rutherford Memorial Lecture. The award recognises distinguished research innuclear physics ornuclear technology and is named in honour ofLord Rutherford of Nelson.[49]
- TheJames Chadwick Medal and Prize is awarded "for distinguished contributions toparticle physics."[50]
- TheFred Hoyle Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to astrophysics or cosmology[51][52]
- ThePeter Mansfield Medal and Prize is awarded formedical physics[53]
- TheJames Joule Medal and Prize is awarded for applied physics[54]
- TheJames 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.[55]
- TheHenry Moseley Medal and Prize is awarded for exceptional early career contributions to experimental physics[56]
- TheJocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize was originally known as the 'Very Early Career Female Physicist Award'[57]
- TheSimon Memorial Prize
Service to the IOP awards
[edit]- ThePresident'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.[58]
- ThePhillips Award is awarded for distinguished service to the Institute of Physics.[59]
Special Interest Group Prizes and Awards
[edit]Many of the Institute's special interest groups[60]—sub-groups of the organisations members working in, or with an interest in, a specific area or sub-discipline—award prizes, typically annually.[61] These include:
