IOP Award winners 2015
Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics
Professor Eli Yablonovitch
University of California, Berkeley
For his visionary and foundational contributions to photonic nanostructures.
Dirac Medal and prize
Professor John David Barrow
University of Cambridge
For his combination of mathematical and physical reasoning to increase our understanding of the evolution of the universe, and his use of cosmology to increase our understanding of fundamental physics.
Faraday Medal and prize
Professor Henning Sirringhaus
University of Cambridge
For transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as our ability to exploit them
Glazebrook Medal and prize
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
Swan Medal and prize
Professor Iain Baikie
KP Technology Ltd
For his contributions to the development of Kelvin Probe (KP) method instrumentation through his company, KP Technology
Maxwell Medal and Prize
Dr Clare Burrage
University of Nottingham
For her contributions to dark energy research, in particular to the development of methods of testing for fifth forces from astrophysical probes through to atom interferometry experiments
Moseley Medal and Prize
Dr Rahul Raveendran-Nair
University of Manchester
For his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the electrical, optical and structural properties of graphene and its sister compounds
Paterson Medal and Prize
Dr Edmund Kelleher
Imperial College London
For his many contributions to pulse-width and wavelength-versatile fibre-based photonic sources
Bragg Medal and Prize
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.
Kelvin Medal and Prize
Professor Christopher Lintott
University of Oxford
For his major contributions to public engagement with science through conventional media (especially through television) and by leading citizen science projects through Zooniverse, opening a new chapter in the history of science by enabling hundreds of thousands of people to participate in the process of scientific discovery
The Chadwick medal and prize
Professor Amanda Cooper Sarkar
University of Oxford
For her study of deep inelastic scattering of leptons on nuclei which has revealed the internal structure of the proton.
The Joule medal and prize
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge
For her pioneering contributions to the understanding and enhancement of critical physical properties of strongly-correlated oxides, encompassing oxide superconductors, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and semiconductors
The Mott medal and prize
Professor John Saunders
Royal Holloway, University of London
For ground-breaking studies at the frontiers of ultra-low temperature physics
The Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize
Professor Valery Nakariakov
University of Warwick
For his leadership and major contribution to the discovery of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) activity of the solar corona, which led to transformative changes in our understanding of the solar atmosphere, and to the creation and successful implementation of a new branch of solar physics, MHD coronal seismology
The Rayleigh medal and prize
Professor Christopher Pickard
University College London
For his development of new theories and computational tools for the first principles investigation of matter, which have greatly aided the interpretation of magnetic resonance experiments, have revealed a range of unexpected phenomena in materials at extreme pressures, and increasingly underpin computational materials discovery.
The Tabor medal and prize
Professor Geoffrey Thornton
University College London
For his contributions to understanding the physics and chemistry of oxide surfaces, using both scanned-probe and reciprocal-space techniques
The Young medal and prize
Professor Nikolay Zheludev
University of Southampton
For global leadership and pioneering, seminal work in optical metamaterials and nanophotonics