2008 Professor Roger Cowley
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
For pioneering work in the development and application of neutron and X-ray scattering techniques to the physics
of a wide range of important solid and liquid-state systems. Full citation
Medallists - Guthrie medal and prize
2007 Gilbert George Lonzarich
Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
For his experimental and theoretical contributions to condensed matter physics, in particular to strongly correlated
electron systems.
2006 Marshall Stoneham
University College London
For his wide-ranging theoretical work on defects in solids, in particular for his seminal work on the consequences of defects
for the electronic properties of materials.
2005 William Frank Vinen
The University of Birmingham
For his outstanding contributions to superfluids and superconductors; in particular for the observation and measurement
of quantized vortices in superfluid helium, the first direct confirmation of the application of quantum mechanics to a
macroscopic body.
2004 Henry Hall
2003 Michael Springford
2002 Penelope Jane Brown
2001 Laurence Eaves
2000 Lawrence Michael Brown
1999 George Bacon
1998 Derek Charles Robinson
1997 John Evan Baldwin
1996 Edward Roy Pike
1995 John Edwin Enderby
1994 Philip George Burke
1993 Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble
1992 Archibald Howie
1991 Dennis William Sciama
1990 Roger James Elliott
1989 Martin J Rees
1988 Alan B Lidiard
1987 Samuel Frederick Edwards
1986 Denys Haigh Wilkinson
1985 Michael Pepper
1984 Michael John Seaton
1983 Jeffrey Goldstone
1982 Frederick Charles Frank
1981 John Clive Ward
1980 Michael Ellis Fisher
1979 Donald Hill Perkins
1978 Philip Warren Anderson
1977 Alan Howard Cottrell
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