Awards at a glance
Award category | Award name | Awarded for | Nomination | Awarded |
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Apprentice and Apprentice Employer Awards | Apprentice Award | Contributions to physics by an apprentice | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually |
Apprentice Employer Award | Contributions to apprenticeship schemes | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually | |
Bronze Early Career Medals and Prizes | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Very early career female physicist | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually |
James Clerk Maxwell | Computational, mathematical, theoretical physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually | |
Daphne Jackson | Physics education | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually | |
Henry Moseley | Experimental physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually | |
Clifford Paterson | Physics in business | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually | |
Mary Somerville | Physics public engagement | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually | |
Business Awards | Business Innovation Award | Innovation through application of physics | Application by business | Annually |
Business Start-up Award | Innovation through application of physics | Application by business | Annually | |
Lee Lucas Award | Innovation by early-stage medical/healthcare companies | Application by business | Annually | |
Gold Medals and Prizes | Lawrence Bragg | Physics education | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) |
Katharine Burr Blodgett | Physics in business | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
Paul Dirac | Computational, mathematical, theoretical physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Michael Faraday | Experimental physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
Richard Glazebrook | Physics leadership | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin | Physics public engagement | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Honorary Fellowship | Honorary Fellowship | Service to physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually |
International Bilateral Medals and Prizes | Max Born | Contributions to physics | Awarded by IOP/German Physical Society | Annually |
Fernand Holweck | Contributions to physics | Awarded by IOP/French Physical Society | Annually | |
Harrie Massey | Contributions to physics | Awarded by IOP/Australian Institute of Physics | Annually | |
Giuseppe Occhialini | Contributions to physics | Awarded by IOP/Italian Physical Society | Annually | |
Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture | Isaac Newton | Contributions to physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually |
Phillips Award | Phillips Award | Service to the IOP | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually |
President's Medal | President's Medal | Service to physics | Awarded by IOP President | |
Silver Subject Medals and Prizes | Edward Appleton | Atmospheric, Earth/Environmental physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) |
James Chadwick | Particle physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Marie Curie-Sklodowska | Physics education | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
Sam Edwards | Soft matter physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Rosalind Franklin | Physics applied to the life sciences including biological physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
Dennis Gabor | Physics in business | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
Fred Hoyle | Astrophysics, cosmology, gravitational physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
James Joule | Applied physics, solving technological problems | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
Peter Mansfield | Medical physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Lise Meitner | Physics public engagement | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Nevill Mott | Condensed matter physics and materials | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Plasma, solar, space physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Ernest Rutherford | Nuclear physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh | Computational, mathematical, theoretical physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
David Tabor | Nanoscale, surface physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Joseph Thomson | Atomic, molecular physics | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (even) | |
Thomas Young | Optics, including physics outside visible region | Nomination/Self-nomination | Biennially (odd) | |
Teachers of Physics Award | Teachers of Physics Award | Physics education | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually |
Technician Awards | Technician Award | Contributions to physics by a technician | Nomination/Self-nomination | Annually |