Paterson medal recipients

2012
Dr Henry J Snaith 
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
For his important contributions to the field of excitonic solar cells.

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2011
Dr Jochen Guck
University of Cambridge
For his invention of the optical stretcher, together with other novel physical probes to elucidate cellular mechanical and optical properties, their role in biological function and their potential in medical diagnostics.

2010
Professor Stefan Maier
Imperial College London
For his important contributions to the fields of plasmonics and plasmonic metamaterials.

2009
Dr Rachel McKendry
University College London
For her internationally recognized contributions to the field of nanomechanics, particularly of complex biomolecular systems and the successful commercial development of label-free nanomechanical cantilever sensors for rapid disease diagnostics and antibiotic drug screening applications.

2008
Russell Cowburn
Imperial College London
For outstanding contributions to nano-magnetism and nano-photonics, and his internationally recognised success in commercially exploiting his research through spin-out companies.

2007
Kurt Haselwimmer
Cambridge Magnetic Refrigeration
For establishing the successful scientific instruments company Cambridge Magnetic Refrigeration.

2006
Timothy Leighton
University of Southampton
For his contributions to the field of acoustics in liquids, in particular to biomedical ultrasonics, acoustical oceanography, cavitation and industrial ultrasonics.

2005
Jonathan Mark Huntley
Loughborough University
For the development of novel methods of laser speckle interferometry, phase unwrapping algorithms and the use of positron emission in a wide variety of applications.

2004
Ian Stuart Gilmore

2003
Colin David Cameron, Christopher William Slinger and Maurice Stanely

2002
Polina Bayvel

2001
Joseph Louis Keddie

2000
Hugh Francis Joseph Cormican

1999
Thomas Grierson Harvey

1998
Neil Loxley

1997
Charles Thomas Elliott and Timothy Ashley

1996
Michael Roy Worboys

1995
Gerard Sherlock

1994
Robert William Musk

1993
Anthony Keith Laurence Dymoke-Bradshaw and Jonathan David Hares

1992
Michael David May

1991
Paul F Fewster

1990
John David Garratt

1989
Michael J Kelly

1988
Martin John Powell

1987
Andrew Cannon Carter

1986
Edward Peter Raynes

1985
Colin Edwin Conisbee Wood

1984
Ian Alexander Shanks

1983
John Martin Shannon