Gold Medals

Recipients of the Dirac medal of the Institute of Physics

2008    Professor Bryan Webber
           University of Cambridge
           For his pioneering work in understanding and applying quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong
           interaction which is one of the three fundamental forces of Nature.  Full citation

2007    David Sherrington
           University of Oxford
           For his pioneering work in spin glasses.

2006    Michael Gillan
           University College London
           For his contributions to the development of atomic-scale computer simulations, which have greatly extended their
           power and effectiveness across an immense range of applications.

2005    John Ellis
           Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN
           For his highly influential work on particle physics phenomenology; in particular on the properties of gluons, the Higgs
           boson and the top quark.

2004    Michael B Green

2003    Christopher Michael Hull

2002    John Howard Hannay

2001    Brian Kidd Ridley

2000    John Lawrence Cardy

1999    Ian C Percival

1998    David Deutsch

1997    Peter Ware Higgs

1996    John Brian Pendry

1995    Daniel Frank Walls

1994    Volker Heine

1993    David James Thouless

1992    Anthony James Leggett

1991    Rudolf Ernst Peierls

1990    Michael Victor Berry

1989    Roger Penrose

1988    John Stewart Bell

1987    Stephen William Hawking

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