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Awards at a glance

View all IOP Awards in the table below.

 

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Award categoryAward nameAwarded forNominationAwarded
Apprentice and Apprentice Employer AwardsApprentice AwardContributions to physics by an apprenticeNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
 Apprentice Employer AwardContributions to apprenticeship schemesNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
Bronze Early Career Medals and PrizesJocelyn Bell BurnellVery early career female physicistNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
 James Clerk MaxwellComputational, mathematical, theoretical physicsNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
 Daphne JacksonPhysics educationNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
 Henry MoseleyExperimental physicsNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
 Clifford PatersonPhysics in businessNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
 Mary SomervillePhysics public engagementNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
Business AwardsBusiness Innovation AwardInnovation through application of physicsApplication by businessAnnually
 Business Start-up AwardInnovation through application of physicsApplication by businessAnnually
 Lee Lucas AwardInnovation by early-stage medical/healthcare companiesApplication by businessAnnually
Gold Medals and PrizesLawrence BraggPhysics educationNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Katharine Burr BlodgettPhysics in businessNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Paul DiracComputational, mathematical, theoretical physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Michael FaradayExperimental physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Richard GlazebrookPhysics leadershipNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 William Thomson, Lord KelvinPhysics public engagementNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
Honorary FellowshipHonorary FellowshipService to physicsNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
International Bilateral Medals and PrizesMax BornContributions to physicsAwarded by IOP/German Physical SocietyAnnually
 Fernand HolweckContributions to physicsAwarded by IOP/French Physical SocietyAnnually
 Harrie MasseyContributions to physicsAwarded by IOP/Australian Institute of PhysicsAnnually
 Giuseppe OcchialiniContributions to physicsAwarded by IOP/Italian Physical SocietyAnnually
Isaac Newton Medal and LectureIsaac NewtonContributions to physicsNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
Phillips AwardPhillips AwardService to the IOPNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
President's MedalPresident's MedalService to physicsAwarded by IOP President 
Silver Subject Medals and PrizesEdward AppletonAtmospheric, Earth/Environmental physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 James ChadwickParticle physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Marie Curie-SklodowskaPhysics educationNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Sam EdwardsSoft matter physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Rosalind FranklinPhysics applied to the life sciences including biological physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Dennis GaborPhysics in businessNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Fred HoyleAstrophysics, cosmology, gravitational physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 James JouleApplied physics, solving technological problemsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Peter MansfieldMedical physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Lise MeitnerPhysics public engagementNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Nevill MottCondensed matter physics and materialsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinPlasma, solar, space physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Ernest RutherfordNuclear physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 John William Strutt, Lord RayleighComputational, mathematical, theoretical physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 David TaborNanoscale, surface physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
 Joseph ThomsonAtomic, molecular physicsNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (even)
 Thomas YoungOptics, including physics outside visible regionNomination/Self-nominationBiennially (odd)
Teachers of Physics AwardTeachers of Physics AwardPhysics educationNomination/Self-nominationAnnually
Technician AwardsTechnician AwardContributions to physics by a technicianNomination/Self-nominationAnnually