Glazebrook medal recipients

2012
Professor Steven Cowley
UK Atomic Energy Authority / Imperial College
For his leadership of the United Kingdom’s magnetic fusion programme and of Culham Laboratory and for his seminal contributions to plasma and fusion science.

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2011
Professor Richard J Parker, Dr Mike Howse and Professor Philip C Ruffles
Rolls Royce Group
For the creation, development and expansion of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) network, widely held to be the exemplary model for University/ Industry interaction.

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2010
Professor Peter Roberts
AWE
For his leadership in the design, physics and safety of nuclear weapons.

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2009
Professor Sir Peter Knight
Imperial College London
For his outstanding contributions to Physics in the UK and globally through both his scholarship as a pre-eminent Atomic and Molecular Optics theoretician and as a charismatic and effective leader of research and research organisations.

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2008
Professor William George Stirling
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France, and University of Liverpool
For his outstanding leadership in managing and taking forward a world-leading laboratory, and for his innovative work in neutron and X-ray scattering science.

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2007
Colin Carlile
The Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble
For his contributions to neutron science, in particular through his leadership of the Institut Laue-Langevin.

2006
Andrew Dawson Taylor
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
For his contributions to neutron scattering physics through his leadership as director of the ISIS facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and in the realisation of the second target station at ISIS.

2005
Peter Williams
The Engineering and Technology Board
For his outstanding contributions to physics-based industry through his leadership of world-class companies such as Oxford Instruments and through his work with Government, the Research Councils and professional bodies.

2004
Ian M Ward

2003
Terence John Quinn

2002
George Ernest Kalmus

2001
Colin Edward Webb

2000
Alexander Boksenberg

1999
Christopher Llewellyn Smith

1998
Cyril Hilsum

1997
Alexander Donnachie

1996
Edgar William John Mitchell

1995
John Leslie Beeby

1994
Paul Randall Williams

1993
Ian Butterworth

1992
Keith Boddy

1991
Francis Graham-Smith

1990
John Theodore Houghton

1989
Rendel Sebastian Pease

1988
Derek H Roberts

1987
Brian Hilton Flowers

1986
Geoffrey Manning

1985
John Currie Gunn

1984
Peter Eugene Trier

1983
Alan Frank Gibson