Rutherford Medal and Prize
Rutherford Medal and Prize is a biennial prize in nuclear physics and engineering awarded by the Institute of Physics . It emerged in 1965 from the Rutherford Memorial Lecture, which has been held since 1942. Both are named after Ernest Rutherford . The medal is endowed with 1000 pounds.
Award winners
Rutherford Memorial Lecture
- 1942 Harold Roper Robinson
- 1944 John Cockcroft
- 1946 Mark Oliphant
- 1948 Ernest Marsden
- 1950 Alexander Smith Russell
- 1952 Rudolf Peierls
- 1954 Patrick Blackett
- 1956 Philip Dee
- 1958 Niels Bohr
- 1960 Cecil Powell
- 1962 Denys Wilkinson
- 1964 Peter Fowler
Rutherford Medal and Prize
- 1966 Peter Kapitza
- 1968 Brian Flowers
- 1970 Samuel Devons
- 1972 Aage Bohr
- 1973 James MacDonald Cassels
- 1974 Albert Edward Litherland
- 1976 Joan Freeman , Roger John Blin-Stoyle
- 1978 Paul Taunton Matthews
- 1980 Paul Gayleard Murphy , John James Thresher
- 1982 David Maurice Brink
- 1984 Peter Higgs , TWB Kibble
- 1986 Alan Astbury
- 1988 John Dowell , Peter Kalmus
- 1990 Roger Julian Noel Phillips
- 1992 Erwin Gabathuler , Terry Sloan
- 1994 James Philip Elliott
- 1996 David Vernon Bugg
- 1998 Anthony Michael Hillas
- 2000 William R. Phillips
- 2002 Peter Dornan , David Plane , Wilber Venus
- 2004 David L. Wark
- 2006 Ken Peach
- 2008 Alan Copestake , Stephen Walley , John Stewart Kiltie , Chris Weston , Brian Griffin
- 2010 Martin Freer
- 2012 Peter Butler
- 2014 Paul Nolan
- 2016 John Simpson
- 2019 Philip Walker