Subject Awards

Recipients of the Young medal and prize

2008    Professor Patrick Gill
           The National Physical Laboratory
           For world leading contributions to optical-frequency metrology.  Full citation

2007    James Roy Taylor
           Imperial College, London
           For his contributions to the development of modern solid-state lasers.

2005    Philip St John Russell
           University of Bath
           For his proposal of the concept of photonic crystal fibres and his outstanding contribution to their development and
           practical application.

2003    J Roy Sambles

2001   Stephen J Pennycook

1999    Peter Leonard Knight

1997    Keith Burnett

1995    John Gilroy Rarity and Paul Richard Tapster

1993    John Christopher Dainty

1991    Parameswaran Hariharan

1989    Leonard Mandel

1987    Rodney Loudon

1985    John David Lawson

1983    James Morris Burch

1981    Nicholas John Phillips

1979    Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

1977    Robert Clark Jones

1975    Daniel Joseph Bradley

1973    Walter Thompson Welford

1971    Charles Gorrie Wynne

1969    Giuliano Toraldo di Francia

1967    Dennis Gabor

1965    André Maréchal

1963    Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow

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