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Institute of Physics Michael Faraday

Medal and Prize
The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal
Institute of Physics
awarded annually by the Institute of Physics in
Michael Faraday Medal &
experimental physics.[1] The award is made "for
Prize
outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental
Awarded Outstanding
physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000
for contributions to
and a certificate.[2]
experimental physics

Historical development Sponsored Institute of Physics

by
1914-1965 Guthrie Lecture initiated to remember Country United Kingdom
Frederick Guthrie,[3] founder of the Physical Society Presented Institute of Physics
(which merged with the Institute of Physics in 1960).
by
1966-2007 Guthrie Medal and Prize (in response to
changed conditions from when the lecture was first Formerly Guthrie Medal and
established). From 1992, it became one of the Institute's called Prize
Premier Awards. Reward(s) Gold medal, £1000
2008–present Michael Faraday Medal and Prize
First 1914
awarded
Medalists and lecturers Website Official website (http://
www.iop.org/about/aw
ards/gold/faraday/page
Faraday medalists
_38445.html)
2022 Nikolay Zheludev, "For international leadership,
discoveries and in-depth studies of new phenomena and
functionalities in photonic nanostructures and nanostructured
matter."
2021 Bucker Dangor, "For outstanding contributions to
experimental plasma physics, and in particular for his role in the
development of the field of laser-plasma acceleration."
2020 Richard Ellis, "For over 35 years of pioneering contributions
in faint-object astronomy, often with instruments he funded and
constructed, which have opened up the early universe to direct
observations."
2019 Roy Taylor, "For his extensive, internationally leading
contributions to the development of spectrally diverse, ultrafast- Michael Faraday
laser sources and pioneering fundamental studies of nonlinear (1791 - 1867)
fibre optics that have translated to scientific and commercial

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application."[4]
2018 Jennifer Thomas, "For her outstanding investigations into the physics of neutrino
oscillations, in particular her leadership of the MINOS/MINOS+ long-baseline neutrino
oscillation experiment."[5][6][7]
2017 Jeremy Baumberg, "For his investigations of many ingenious nanostructures
supporting novel and precisely engineered plasmonic phenomena relevant to single
molecule and atom dynamics, Raman spectroscopies and metamaterials applications."[8]
2016 Jenny Nelson," For her pioneering advances in the science of nanostructured and
molecular semiconductor materials "
2015 Henning Sirringhaus, "For transforming our knowledge of charge transport
phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as our ability to exploit them"[9]
2014 Alexander Giles Davies and Edmund Linfield, "For their outstanding and sustained
contributions to the physics and technology of the far-infrared (terahertz) frequency region
of the electromagnetic spectrum"[10][11][12]
2013 Edward Hinds, "For his innovative and seminal experimental investigations into ultra-
cold atoms and molecules"
2012 Roy Sambles, "For his pioneering research in experimental condensed matter
physics"
2011 Alan Andrew Watson, "For his outstanding leadership within the Pierre Auger
Observatory, and the insights he has provided to the origin and nature of ultra high energy
cosmic rays"[13]
2010 Athene Donald, "For her many highly original studies of the structures and behaviour
of polymers both synthetic and natural"
2009 Donal Bradley, "For his pioneering work in the field of 'plastic electronics'"
2008 Roger Cowley, "For pioneering work in the development and application of neutron
and X-ray scattering techniques to the physics of a wide range of important solid and liquid-
state systems"

Guthrie medalists
2007 Gilbert Lonzarich, "for his experimental and theoretical contributions to condensed
matter physics"
2006 Marshall Stoneham, "for his wide-ranging theoretical work on defects in solids"
2005 William Frank Vinen, "for his outstanding contributions to superfluids and
superconductors"
2004 Henry Hall
2003 Michael Springford
2002 Penelope Jane Brown
2001 Laurence Eaves
2000 Lawrence Michael Brown
1999 George Bacon
1998 Derek Charles Robinson
1997 John Evan Baldwin
1996 Edward Roy Pike
1995 John Enderby
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1994 Philip George Burke
1993 Tom Kibble
1992 Archibald Howie
 1998 Derek Charles Robinson
1997 John Evan Baldwin
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1996 Edward Roy Pike
1995 John Enderby
1994 Philip George Burke
1993 Tom Kibble
1992 Archibald Howie
1991 Dennis William Sciama
1990 Roger James Elliott
1989 Martin J. Rees
1988 Alan Lidiard
1987 Samuel Frederick Edwards
1986 Denys Haigh Wilkinson
1985 Michael Pepper
1984 Michael John Seaton
1983 Jeffrey Goldstone
1982 Frederick Charles Frank
1981 John Clive Ward
1980 Michael Ellis Fisher
1979 Donald Hill Perkins
1978 Philip Warren Anderson
1977 Alan Howard Cottrell
1976 Abdus Salam
1975 David Tabor
1974 Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1973 Hermann Bondi
1972 Brian David Josephson
1971 John Ashworth Ratcliffe
1970 Alfred Brian Pippard
1969 Cecil Frank Powell
1968 Rudolf Ernst Peierls
1967 James Chadwick
1966 William Cochran

Guthrie lecturers
1965 John Bertram Adams
1964 Martin Ryle
1963 Leslie Fleetwood Bates
1962 Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell[14]
1961 David Shoenberg
1960 Fred Hoyle
1959 Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey
1958 Willis Eugene Lamb
1957 Harold C Urey
1956 Francis Simon
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1955 Edmund Clifton Stoner

1954 Geoffrey Taylor
 1959 Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey
Institute1958 Willis
of Physics MichaelEugene Lamb
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1957 Harold C Urey

1956 Francis Simon
1955 Edmund Clifton Stoner
1954 Geoffrey Taylor
1953 Max Born
1952 W Lawrence Bragg
1951 Nevill Francis Mott
1950 George Ingle Finch
1949 Alexander Oliver Rankine
1948 George Paget Thomson
1947 John Desmond Bernal
1946 Max Jakob
1945 Arturo Duperier: "The Geophysical Aspect of Cosmic Rays"[15]
1944 Joel H Hildebrand
1943 Edward T. Whittaker: "Chance, freewill and necessity, in the scientific conception of
the universe"[16]
1942 Edward V Appleton
1941 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
1940 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett: "Cosmic Rays: Recent Developments"[17]
1939 (no lecture)
1938 Archibald Vivian Hill: "The transformations of energy and the mechanical work of
muscles"[18]
1937 Clifford Copland Paterson
1936 Frederick A. Lindemann: "Physical Ultimates"[19]
1935 Arthur Holly Compton: "An attempt to analyse Cosmic Rays"
1934 Charles Vernon Boys: "My recent progress in Gas Calorimetry"
1933 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1932 Max Planck
1931 Richard T Glazebrook
1930 Peter Debye
1929 Percy Williams Bridgman
1928 J. J. Thomson
1927 Sir Ernest Rutherford: "Atomic nuclei and their transformations"[20]
1926 Charles Fabry
1925 Wilhelm Wien
1924 Maurice le Duc de Broglie
1923 James Hopwood Jeans
1922 Niels Bohr: "The Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines"[21]
1921 Albert Abraham Michelson: "Some Recent Applications of Interference Methods"[22]
1920 Charles Edouarde Guillaume: "The Anomaly of Nickel-Steels"[23]
1919 (no lecture)
1918 John Cunningham McLennan: "The Origin of Spectra"[24]
1917 Paul Langevin
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1916 William Bate Hardy: "Some Problems of Living Matter"[25]

1915 (no lecture)
 1920 Charles Edouarde Guillaume: "The Anomaly of Nickel-Steels"[23]
Institute1919 (no
of Physics lecture)
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1918 John Cunningham McLennan: "The Origin of Spectra"[24]

1917 Paul Langevin
1916 William Bate Hardy: "Some Problems of Living Matter"[25]
1915 (no lecture)
1914 Robert Williams Wood: "Radiation of Gas Molecules Excited by Light"[26]

External links
List of Faraday Medal and Prize recipients and some Guthrie medal and prize recipients (htt
p://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/faraday/medallists/page_38448.html)

See also
Institute of Physics Awards
List of physics awards
List of awards named after people

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