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James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize

The James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize is awarded
Institute of Physics James
by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in theoretical physics.[1]
Clerk Maxwell Medal &
The award is made "for exceptional early-career
Prize
contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and
Awarded Exceptional early-
computational) physics." It was awarded every two years
for career contributions to
between 1962 and 1970 and has since been awarded
theoretical (including
annually. It is named in honour of James Clerk Maxwell.
mathematical and
The first medal was awarded in 1962 to Abdus Salam. Past computational) physics
recipients include subsequent Nobel Prize in Physics Sponsored Institute of Physics
laureates (Abdus Salam, David Thouless, Anthony James by
Leggett, John Michael Kosterlitz) and Lucasian Professors Presented Institute of Physics
of Mathematics (Stephen Hawking, Michael Green, and by
Michael Cates).
First 1962
awarded
Recipients
1962 Abdus Salam[2]
1964 Walter Charles Marshall
1966 Richard Henry Dalitz
1968 Roger James Elliott and Kenneth William Harry
Stevens
1970 Richard John Eden
1971 John Bryan Taylor
1972 Volker Heine[3]
1973 David James Thouless
1974 Samuel Frederick Edwards
1975 Anthony James Leggett
1976 Stephen William Hawking[4][5]
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879)
1977 Eric Jakeman
1978 Michael Victor Berry[6]
1979 Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith
1980 David James Wallace
1981 John Michael Kosterlitz[7]
1982 Jonathan Richard Ellis
1983 Alastair Douglas Bruce
1984 David William Bullett

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1985 Alan John Bray and Allan Peter Young

1986 James Binney
1987 Michael Boris Green
1988 Robin C Ball
1989 Mark Warner
1990 George Petros Efstathiou
1991 Michael E Cates[8]
1992 Neil Turok[9][10][11]
1993 John Feather Wheater
1994 Stephen Mark Barnett
1995 Artur Konrad Ekert[12]
1996 Michael Christopher Payne
1997 Michael Wilkinson
1998 Andrew James Fisher
1999 Jeffrey Robert Forshaw[13][14]
2000 Andrew Martin Steane
2001 Benjamin Simons
2002 Andrew John Schofield
2003 Tchavdar Nikolov Todorov
2004 Martin Bodo Plenio[15]
2005 Clifford Victor Johnson, "For his outstanding contribution to string theory, quantum
gravity and its interface with strongly coupled field theory; in particular for his work on
understanding the censorship of singularities, and the thermodynamic properties, of
quantum spacetime."[16][17]
2006 Ruth Gregory, "For her contributions to physics at the interface of general relativity
and string theory, in particular for her work on the physics of cosmic strings and black
holes."[18][19]
2007 Nigel Cooper, "For his work on topological excitations in quantum Hall fluids and
related systems, in particular rotating Bose-Einstein condensates."
2008 Sougato Bose, "For his work on the characterisation and exploitation of entanglement
in quantum systems, in particular for his work on the propagation of information in spin
chains."
2009 Dmitry Skryabin, "For his contributions to theory and modelling of nonlinear optical
processes; in particular for predictions and understanding of effects accompanying
interaction of solitons with radiation and generation of ultrabroad spectra in optical fibers."
[20]

2010 Peter Haynes, "For his work on linear-scaling methods for large-scale first-principles
simulation of materials based on density-functional theory, in particular his leading role in
the development of the ONETEP code used in both academe and industry."[21]
2011 Andrei Starinets, "For his contributions to our understanding of the transport properties
of systems of strongly coupled quantum fields."
2012 Meera Parish, "For her pioneering work in the theory of cold fermionic matter and
magnetotransport in highly disordered media."

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2013 Joanna Dunkley, "For her contributions to determining the structure and history of our
Universe."[22]
2014 Igor Lesanovsky, "For his outstanding contributions to the theory of control and
manipulation of quantum systems, particularly his pioneering studies of highly excited
'Rydberg' states in cold atomic gases."
2015 Clare Burrage, "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."[23]
2016 Alexandra Olaya-Castro, "For her contributions to the theory of quantum effects in
biomolecular systems – in particular, to the understanding of exciton-vibration interactions
and the emergence of nontrivial quantum behaviour in photosynthetic complexes."
2017 Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski, "For outstanding contributions to the understanding of
graphene, in particular groundbreaking studies that have addressed its optical properties,
lattice deformations, electronic structure, and electron transport."[24]
2018 Hannah Price, "For her important contributions to the nascent fields of topological
atomic and optical physics, including collaboration with world-leading experimental groups
in their observation of new effects."[25]
2019 Adam Nahum, "For his outstanding contributions to understanding universal aspects
of many-body quantum systems both in and out of equilibrium."
2020 Curt von Keyserlingk, "For remarkable discoveries in non-equilibrium physics,
including the discovery of new families of driven phases of matter, and revealing the
unexpected manner in which information spreads in quantum many-body systems."[26]
2021 Bartomeu Monserrat, "For exceptional contributions to the development of
computational techniques that bring temperature to modern electronic structure methods,
and their application to topological materials, photovoltaics, superconductors and planetary
physics."[27][28]
2022 Katy Clough, "For pioneering the use of advanced computational methods to
investigate fundamental physics, achieving groundbreaking research in inflationary
cosmology and dark matter, and demonstrating outstanding leadership in computational
physics."
2023 Nikolas Breuckmann, "For outstanding contributions to the quantum error correction
field, particularly work on proving the no low-energy trivial state conjecture, a famous open
problem in quantum information theory."[29][30]

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