James Chadwick Medal and Prize recipients
For distinguished contributions to particle physics.
2023
Professor Themis Bowcock
University of Liverpool
For outstanding contributions to the design, construction and operation of major detector and computing systems that have underpinned quark and lepton-flavour measurements worldwide.
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2022
Professor Philip P Allport
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
For broad contributions to particle physics instrumentation, most notably in the establishment of radiation-hard silicon sensor technologies and their deployment in large experiments.
2021
Professor Mark Lancaster
University of Manchester
For distinguished, precise measurements in particle physics, particularly of the W boson mass and the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment.
2020
Professor Geoffrey Hall
Imperial College London
For his pioneering work in developing silicon detectors and front-end electronics for particle physics experiments, especially in crucial radiation-hard applications, critical for the observation of the Higgs boson in 2012.
2019
Professor Ian Shipsey
University of Oxford
For his elucidation of the physics of heavy quarks, the development of the enabling instrumentation, and leadership of scientific collaborations.
2018
Professor Stefan Söldner-Rembold
The University of Manchester
For his contributions to pioneering experimental work in high-energy particle physics and his international leadership in Higgs and neutrino physics.
2017
Professor Guy Wilkinson
University of Oxford
For his outstanding contributions to the experimental study of heavy quarks and CP violation, most especially for his leadership of, and his decisive contributions to, the LHCb experiment at CERN.
2015
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.
2013
Professor Jonathan Butterworth
University College London
For his pioneering experimental and phenomenological work in high energy particle physics, especially in the understanding of hadronic jets.
2011
Professor Terry Wyatt
University of Manchester
For his outstanding contributions to Hadron Collider Physics.
2009
Professor Tejinder Virdee
Imperial College London
For his crucial role in the design and construction of CMS; one of the main experiments which start operation at the LHC this year.
2008
Professor Keith Green and Professor J Michael Pendlebury
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory/University of Sussex
For their outstanding contributions to the measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment, and of other fundamental properties of the neutron.