Subject Awards

Recipients of the Rutherford Medal and Prize

2008    Dr Alan Copestake, Dr Stephen Walley, Mr John Stewart Kiltie, Mr Chris Weston and Mr Brian Griffin
           Rolls Royce plc.
           For the development of a long-life nuclear reactor core for UK submarines.  Full citation

2006    Ken Peach
           CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
           For his contributions to high energy physics as leader of key experiments at CERN investigating CP violation, and
           as director of particle physics at CCLRC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where he has played a key role
           in reviving accelerator science for particle physics applications in the UK.

2004    David L Wark

2002    Peter John Dornan, David Plane and Wilber Venus

2000    William R Phillips

1998    Anthony Michael Hillas

1996    David Vernon Bugg

1994    James Philip Elliott

1992    Erwin Gabathuler and Terry Sloan

1990    Roger Julian Noel Phillips

1988    John Dowell and Peter I P Kalmus

1986    Alan Astbury

1984    Peter Ware Higgs and Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble

1982    David Maurice Brink

1980    Paul Gayleard Murphy and John James Thresher

1978    Paul Taunton Matthews

1976    Joan Maie Freeman and Roger John Blin-Stoyle

1974    Albert Edward Litherland

1973    James MacDonald Cassels

1972    Aage Bohr

1970    Samuel Devons

1968    Brian Hilton Flowers

1966    Peter Kapitza

Lecturers

1964    Peter H Fowler

1962    Denys Haigh Wilkinson

1960    Cecil Frank Powell

1958    Niels Bohr

1956    Philip I Dee

1954    Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

1952    Rudolf Ernst Peierls

1950    Alexander Smith Russell

1948    Ernest Marsden

1946    Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant

1944    John D Cockcroft

1942    Harold Roper Robinson

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