Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize recipients
For physics education.
2024
Professor Stephen John Blundell
University of Oxford
For contributions to physics scholarship and education through the publication of widely used and influential physics textbooks.
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2023
Professor Sally Jordan
Open University
For work in advancing pedagogy, understanding demographic differences in attainment and in developing tools to allow computer assessment of free-text answers, which are in use across the world.
2022
Dr Eilish McLoughlin
Dublin City University
For outstanding leadership in physics teacher education and significant impact on the learning and teaching of physics in Ireland.
2020
Professor Nicholas St John Braithwaite
The Open University
For his outstanding contribution to the authentic teaching of practical science through the development of the award-winning OpenSTEM Labs, available to learners in all places and at all times.
2019
Professor Mark Warner and Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright
University of Cambridge
For jointly setting up and directing the Isaac Physics programme which has revolutionised physics education for teachers and students in an extraordinary number of UK schools and is now attracting international attention.
2018
Professor Bobby Acharya
International Centre for Theoretical Physics and King's College London
For his contributions as the driver of several projects to teach and promote physics in the developing world, with the ultimate aim of developing sustainable physics research in those countries.
2017
Mary Whitehouse
University of York
For being a national influence on the development of teaching and learning in physics, both through her central involvement in curriculum projects and in developing the assessment process.
2016
Stuart Farmer
Robert Gordon’s College
For outstanding contributions to enhance both the teaching and the public image of physics, making classroom science more relevant, attractive and visible.
2015
Professor Paula Chadwick
University of Durham
For developing the successful concept of Group Industrial Projects: a UK-wide scheme to engage physics undergraduates with industry.
2014
Professor Peter Vukusic
University of Exeter
For his significant and impactful contributions to widening participation in physics education and outreach.
2013
Bob Kibble
Retired, formerly University of Edinburgh
For his life-long contributions to the teaching of physics in all phases of education, from primary school to further and higher education.
2012
Professor Katherine Blundell
University of Oxford
For promoting engagement in and learning of physics both by carrying research in astronomy into schools in developing countries and by helping graduate students and postdocs in the UK to talk to schoolchildren about their science.
2011
Professor Philip Harland Scott
University of Leeds
For his influential research in physics education which has had a significant impact on teachers and the teaching of physics in secondary schools.
2010
Peter Campbell
Science Learning Centre London
For his leading role in a wide range of projects that have made a significant impact on the physics curriculum and the teaching of physics.
2009
Ms Becky Parker
Simon Langton Grammar School
For her work to energise generations of pupils to take up the study of physics; the commitment to raise substantial sums to provide major facilities in astronomy and other branches of physics in her region; and her positive influence on physics education nationally.
2008
Robin Millar
The University of York
For outstanding leadership in the teaching, learning and assessment of physics. He has helped to redefine the aims of science education, contributing creative projects that have re-shaped classroom practice, and inspired teachers.
2007
Philip Britton
The Grammar School at Leeds
For his many contributions to physics teaching in schools.
2006
Derek Raine
University of Leicester
For his work on the teaching of physics in universities, in particular for pioneering the use of problem-based learning in physics in the UK.
2005
Ken Dobson
For his important contributions to physics education in assessment and in the development of original curriculum material.
2004
Elizabeth Swinbank
2003
Ian Lawrence
2002
Robert Lambourne and Michael Harry Tinker
2001
George Marx
2000
Frank Russell Stannard
1999
Averil Mary Macdonald
1998
Maurice George Ebison
1997
Timothy David Robert Hickson
1996
Brenda Margaret Jennison
1995
Bryan Reginald Chapman
1994
Cyril Isenberg
1993
Christopher Anthony Butlin
1992
J Colin Siddons
1991
Kevin William Keohane
1990
John Marden Osborne
1989
J Goronwy Jones
1988
Anthony P French
1987
James Turnbull Jardine
1986
Wilfred Llowarch
1985
Eric Malcolm Rogers
1983
Charles Alfred Taylor
1981
Geoffrey Edward Foxcroft
1979
Margaret Maureen Hurst
1977
Edward John Wenham
1975
William Albert Coates
1973
Jon Michael Ogborn and Paul Joseph Black
1971
George Robert Noakes
1969
John Logan Lewis
1967
Donald McGill (posthumously)