Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize recipients
For leadership in a physics context.
2023
Professor Belinda Wilkes
University of Bristol
For outstanding leadership as Director of the Chandra X-ray Center, supporting the operation, exploitation and public relations of NASA's premier X-ray observatory, and significant contributions to our understanding of quasars.
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2022
Dr Peter Thompson
National Physical Laboratory
For outstanding leadership of the National Physical Laboratory and the sustained impact of metrology on UK prosperity and quality of life.
2021
Professor Ian Chapman
UK Atomic Energy Authority
For outstanding leadership of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the world’s foremost fusion research and technology facility, the Joint European Torus, and the progress it has delivered in plasma physics, deuterium-tritium experiments, robotics, and new materials.
2020
Professor John Llewellyn Collier
UKRI-STFC
For the sustained leadership and strategic development of the UK's multi-disciplinary Central Laser Facility and his pioneering developments in high peak power and high-energy, high-average power lasers.
2019
Professor Anne-Christine Davis
University of Cambridge
For her outstanding support and leadership in physics, particularly for women and those from non-traditional backgrounds, for her leadership of the UK particle cosmology community, and her gender championship roles.
2018
Professor Michele Dougherty
Imperial College London
For her scientific leadership of the Cassini magnetic field instrument at Saturn and the European Space Agency (ESA) JUICE study team, leading to mission selection to explore the environs of Jupiter.
2017
Professor David Charlton
University of Birmingham
For his leadership in experimental work on the electroweak standard model, beginning with the study of Z-boson decays at LEP and culminating in the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC.
2016
Dr Hugh Elliot Montgomery
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
For his leadership at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and distinguished research in high-energy physics.
2015
Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee
Imperial College London
For his leadership of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where evidence for the Higgs boson was revealed after 20 years of research involving design, construction and data-taking.
2014
Professor Gerhard Materlik
University College London and Diamond Light Source
For outstanding leadership in establishing a world-leading laboratory at the Diamond Light Source and for his innovations in X-ray diffraction physics.
2013
Professor Lyndon Rees Evans
CERN, Geneva and Imperial College London
For his outstanding leadership of the Large Hadron Collider Project.
2012
Professor Steven Cowley
UK Atomic Energy Authority / Imperial College
For his leadership of the United Kingdom’s magnetic fusion programme and of Culham Laboratory and for his seminal contributions to plasma and fusion science.
2011
Professor Richard J Parker, Dr Mike Howse and Professor Philip C Ruffles
Rolls Royce Group
For the creation, development and expansion of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) network, widely held to be the exemplary model for University/ Industry interaction.
2010
Professor Peter Roberts
AWE
For his leadership in the design, physics and safety of nuclear weapons.
2009
Professor Sir Peter Knight
Imperial College London
For his outstanding contributions to Physics in the UK and globally through both his scholarship as a pre-eminent Atomic and Molecular Optics theoretician and as a charismatic and effective leader of research and research organisations.
2008
Professor William George Stirling
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France, and University of Liverpool
For his outstanding leadership in managing and taking forward a world-leading laboratory, and for his innovative work in neutron and X-ray scattering science.
2007
Colin Carlile
The Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble
For his contributions to neutron science, in particular through his leadership of the Institut Laue-Langevin.
2006
Andrew Dawson Taylor
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
For his contributions to neutron scattering physics through his leadership as director of the ISIS facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and in the realisation of the second target station at ISIS.
2005
Peter Williams
The Engineering and Technology Board
For his outstanding contributions to physics-based industry through his leadership of world-class companies such as Oxford Instruments and through his work with Government, the Research Councils and professional bodies.
2004
Ian M Ward
2003
Terence John Quinn
2002
George Ernest Kalmus
2001
Colin Edward Webb
2000
Alexander Boksenberg
1999
Christopher Llewellyn Smith
1998
Cyril Hilsum
1997
Alexander Donnachie
1996
Edgar William John Mitchell
1995
John Leslie Beeby
1994
Paul Randall Williams
1993
Ian Butterworth
1992
Keith Boddy
1991
Francis Graham-Smith
1990
John Theodore Houghton
1989
Rendel Sebastian Pease
1988
Derek H Roberts
1987
Brian Hilton Flowers
1986
Geoffrey Manning
1985
John Currie Gunn
1984
Peter Eugene Trier
1983
Alan Frank Gibson