Additional Awards

Honorary Fellows

Byelaw 4 of the Charter and Bylaws defines Honorary Fellows as:

"Distinguished persons intimately connected with physics or a science allied there to whom the Institute especially desires to honour for exceptionally important services in connection therewith and distinguished person, whom the Institute may desire to honour for service to the Institute or whose association therewith is of benefit to the Institute, shall be eligible to become Honorary Fellows of the Institute. Election to Honorary Fellowship can be made only by resolution of the Council.  Honorary Fellows of the Institute shall not be required to pay any entrance fee, annual or other membership subscription.  The total number of Honorary Fellows for the time being shall not exceed one hundred."

Honorary Fellowships awarded 2007

Professor Vitaly Ginzburg
For his outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, in particular to the theory of superconductivity.

Professor C N R Rao
For his wide-ranging contributions to chemical physics.

Sir John Mason
For his outstanding contributions to meteorology.

A full list of Honorary Fellows

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