IOP Divisions

Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Prize

Terms of Reference
The Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Prize is awarded annually for important recent advances in research, on a specific topic relevant to physics supported by the division, which have been published within the previous five years. The prize winner will receive a certificate, together with a cheque for £500 and will be invited to give a talk at an appropriate conference.

Eligibility
Those eligible for awards should have made a contribution to the development or reputation of physics in the UK or Ireland.

Previous recipients

2009
Professor Amanda Cooper-Sarkar

The 2009 IOP Nuclear and Particle Physics Division prize is awarded to Prof. A.M. Cooper-Sarkar, Oxford University, for her substantial contributions to our detailed understanding of the proton through the HERA Deep Inelastic Scattering experimental programme and in particular her work on combining data in ways that improve on individual experiments and allow experiment-specific uncertainties to be removed. She is an acknowledged international expert who is able to bridge the complex experimental analysis techniques and deep theoretical understanding required to compile this vast array of data into a form useful to future generations of physicists. Her work provides a lasting legacy from the highly successful HERA programme and a worthy tribute to the thousands of scientists and engineers who contributed to this unique facility.

2008
Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg
University of Liverpool

For his leadership of the UK effort in the study of super-heavy nuclei. Prof Herzberg leads a collaboration using the GREAT spectrometer at Jyväskylä, Finland, in a programme of combined in-beam and decay studies, focussing on the study of isomeric states in nobelium and fermium isotopes. This innovative work provides essential data to constrain mean field theories of the heaviest nuclei, in the search for an island of stability for nuclei with more than 100 protons.

2007
James Hinton
University of Leeds

For his substantial contributions to High Energy Astrophysics, in particular for his major role in the development of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) gamma-ray telescope, and the measurement and interpretation of very high energy gamma ray emission from the Galactic Centre and the Galactic Ridge.

2005
Nick Jelley
University of Oxford

For his role as a leader of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory since its inception, and as group leader of the Oxford group during the period of its most exciting discoveries. Nick has in particular been associated with the production of the very demanding water purification system and the rigorous radioactive assays. He has also played a major role in the development of the SNOMAN Monte Carlo and generally in the definition of the SNO experimental programme. In Oxford he has been an inspirational supervisor of research students. Overall he is recognised internationally as one of the senior figures in an experiment which has been hugely influential in the development of our current picture of neutrino properties, and surely also has important physics results still to come.

2003
Paul Campbell
University i Manchester

2001
Mike Seymour
University of Manchester

Details of the nomination process will be available when a call for nominations is made.

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