| 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 |