Faraday Medal (IOP)

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The Faraday Medal of the British Institute of Physics (IOP) is awarded annually to outstanding experimental physicists and physicists with an international reputation. It is named after Michael Faraday . The medal emerged in 2008 from the Guthrie Lecture , founded in 1914 (named in honor of the founder of the IOP Frederick Guthrie ) of the IOP, which in turn was replaced by a Guthrie Medal in 1965 . It is one of the top IOP prizes and is endowed with £ 1,000.

There is also the Michael Faraday Prize of the Royal Society , which is also associated with a medal, and the Faraday Medals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for electrochemists and those of the Institution of Electric Engineers (IEE).

Award winners

Guthrie Medal

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Faraday Medal

  • 2008 Roger Cowley , for the development and application of neutron scattering and X-ray diffraction techniques in solid state physics
  • 2009 Donal Bradley , for pioneering polymer electronics
  • 2010 Athene Donald , for polymer research
  • 2011 Alan Andrew Watson , for research into high energy cosmic rays
  • 2012 J. Roy Sambles , for experimental solid state physics
  • 2013 Edward Hinds , for novel and fundamental experiments on ultra-cold atoms and molecules
  • 2014 Alexander Giles Davies and Edmund Linfield , for contributions to terahertz physics and technology
  • 2015 Henning Sirringhaus , for contributions to charge transport in semiconductors
  • 2016 Jenny Nelson , for her work on nanostructural and molecular semiconductors
  • 2017 Jeremy J. Baumberg , for his investigations of many innovative nanostructures with new and precisely constructed plasmonic phenomena based on the dynamics of individual atoms and molecules, Raman spectroscopy and applications as metamaterials.
  • 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.
  • 2019 J. Roy Taylor , for his extensive, internationally leading contributions to the development of spectrally diverse, ultrafast-laser sources and pioneering fundamental studies of nonlinear fiber optics that have translated to scientific and commercial application.

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