Young Medal
The Young Medal ( Young Medal and Prize ) is a prize of the Institute of Physics for optics . It is named after Thomas Young .
The prize arose from the Thomas Young Oration held by the Optical Society in 1907 and which became part of the Physical Society of London in 1932. From 1961 it became the Young Medal and Prize . It is endowed with 1000 pounds and is awarded every two years.
Award winners
- 1963 Charles Hard Townes , Arthur Leonard Schawlow
- 1965 André Maréchal
- 1967 Dennis Gábor
- 1969 Giuliano Toraldo di Francia
- 1971 Charles Gorrie Wynne
- 1974 Walter Thompson Welford
- 1977 Robert Clark Jones
- 1979 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
- 1981 Nicholas J. Phillips
- 1983 James Morris Burch
- 1985 John David Lawson
- 1987 Rodney Loudon
- 1989 Leonard Mandel
- 1991 Parameswaran Hariharan
- 1993 John Christopher Dainty
- 1995 John Rarity , Paul Richard Tapster
- 1997 Keith Burnett
- 1999 Peter L. Knight
- 2001 Stephen J. Pennycook
- 2003 Roy Sambles
- 2005 Philip Russell
- 2007 James Roy Taylor
- 2008 Patrick Gill
- 2009 Leslie Allen , Miles Padgett
- 2011 Ian Walmsley
- 2013 Jeremy J. Baumberg
- 2015 Nikolay Zheludev
- 2017 Kishan Dholakia
- 2018 Dieter Jaksch
- 2019 William Barnes
Web links
- Atomic, molecular, optics and quantum technologies at the Institute of Physics (iop.org)