Early Career Awards
Recipients of the Maxwell medal and prize
2009
Dr Dmitry Skryabin
University of Bath
For his contributions to theory and modelling of nonlinear optical processes; in particular for predictions and understanding of effects accompanying interaction of solitons with radiation and generation of ultrabroad spectra in optical fibers.
Full citation
2008
Professor Sougato Bose
University College London
For his work on the characterisation and exploitation of entanglement in quantum systems, in particular for his work on the propagation of information in spin chains.
Full citation
2007
Nigel Cooper
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
For his work on topological excitations in quantum Hall fluids and related systems, in particular rotating Bose-Einstein condensates.
2006
Ruth Gregory
University of Durham
For her contributions to physics at the interface of general relativity and string theory, in particular for her work on the physics of cosmic strings and black holes.
2005
Clifford Victor Johnson
University of Southern California
For his outstanding contribution to string theory, quantum gravity and its interface with strongly coupled field theory; in particular for his work on understanding the censorship of singularities, and the thermodynamic properties, of quantum spacetime.
2004
Martin Bodo Plenio
2003
Tchavdar Nikolov Todorov
2002
Andrew John Schofield
2001
Benjamin Simons
2000
Andrew Martin Steane
1999
Jeffrey Robert Forshaw
1998
Andrew James Fisher
1997
Michael Wilkinson
1996
Michael Christopher Payne
1995
Artur Konrad Ekert
1994
Stephen Mark Barnett
1993
John Feather Wheater
1992
Neil Turok
1991
Michael E Cates
1990
George Petros Efstathiou
1989
Mark Warner
1988
Robin C Ball
1987
Michael Boris Green
1986
James Binney
1985
Alan John Bray and Allan Peter Young
1984
David William Bullett
1983
Alastair Douglas Bruce
1982
Jonathan Richard Ellis
1981
John Michael Kosterlitz
1980
David James Wallace
1979
Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith
1978
Michael Victor Berry
1977
Eric Jakeman
1976
Stephen William Hawking
1975
Anthony James Leggett
1974
Samuel Frederick Edwards
1973
David James Thouless
1972
Volker Heine
1971
John Bryan Taylor
1970
Richard John Eden
1968
Roger James Elliott and Kenneth William Harry Stevens
1966
Richard Henry Dalitz
1964
Walter Charles Marshall
1962
Abdus Salam
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