The

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 Physic ...

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 is awarded yearly by the

German Physical Society The German Physical Society (German: , DPG) is the oldest organisation of physicists. The DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 60,547, as of 2019, making it the largest physics society in the world. It holds an annual conference () and multiple ...

and the Institute of Physics in memory of the German physicist

Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician 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 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 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 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 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 ...

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 and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal struct ...

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 **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 **2015 Paula Chadwick **2016 Stuart Farmer **2017 Mary Whitehouse **2018 Bobby Acharya **2019 Mark Warner 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 sch ...

**2020 Nicholas St John Braithwaite * The

Marie Curie-Sklodowska Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...

Medal and Prize, established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it." * The

Daphne Jackson Daphne Frances Jackson (23 September 1936 – 8 February 1991) was an English nuclear physicist. In 1971 she became the first female physics professor in the UK. A legacy after her death in 1991 enabled the foundation of 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, the is awarded to the top-scoring A-level candidate in Physics in Wales.

Outreach awards

* The

Kelvin Medal and Prize 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 ...

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 Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on r ...

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 Honorary ...

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. * The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually for outstanding contributions to experimental physics to a physicist of international reputation in any sector. * The Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize, 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, established in 2008, is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years, for distinguished research in theoretical, mathematical or computational physics. * The Sam Edwards 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 whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, ...

Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to physics applied to the life sciences * The

Nevill Mott Medal and Prize The Nevill Mott Medal and Prize is an award presented in selected years by the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom, for distinguished research in condensed matter or materials physics. It was first established in 1997 thanks to a donati ...

is awarded for distinguished contributions to condensed matter physics * The

David Tabor David Tabor (né Tabrisky), FRS (23 October 1913 – 26 November 2005) was a British physicist who was an early pioneer of tribology, the study of frictional interaction between surfaces, and well known for his influential undergraduate textboo ...

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 who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclus ...

Medal and Prize is awarded for plasma or space physics * The Edward Appleton Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished research in

environmental A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scal ...

earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's sur ...

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, chem ...

. Originally named after Charles Chree, 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 dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules. It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons. Photons have ...

) 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, m ...

. * The

Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' considers him to be the greatest ...

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 t ...

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

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 physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspi ...

Medal and Prize is awarded "for distinguished contributions to particle physics." * The Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to astrophysics or cosmology * The Peter Mansfield 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 is awarded for applied physics * The

James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and ligh ...

Medal and Prize has been awarded annually since 1962 to recognize outstanding early-career contributions to theoretical physics. * The Henry Moseley 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 an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...

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

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 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 ...

is awarded for distinguished service to the Institute of Physics.

References

External links

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