Michael Faraday Medal and Prize recipients
For experimental physics.
2023
Room Temperature MASER Team, consisting of Professor Neil Alford, Professor Mark Oxborrow, Professor Chris Kay, Dr Jonathan Breeze, Dr Juna Sathian and Professor Enrico Salvadori
For their discovery of the world's first room-temperature solid-state organic maser and subsequent discovery of room-temperature continuous wave masing in diamond.
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2022
Professor Nikolay I Zheludev
University of Southampton, UK and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
For international leadership, discoveries and in-depth studies of new phenomena and functionalities in photonic nanostructures and nanostructured matter.
2021
Dr Bucker Dangor
Imperial College London
For outstanding contributions to experimental plasma physics, and in particular for his role in the development of the field of laser-plasma acceleration.
2020
Professor Richard Ellis
University College London
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
Professor Roy Taylor
Imperial College London
For his extensive, internationally leading contributions to the development of spectrally diverse, ultrafast-laser sources and pioneering fundamental studies of nonlinear fibre optics that have translated to scientific and commercial application.
2018
Professor Jennifer Thomas
University College London
For her outstanding investigations into the physics of neutrino oscillations, in particular her leadership of the MINOS/MINOS+ long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment.
2017
Professor Jeremy J Baumberg
University of Cambridge
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.
2016
Professor Jenny Nelson
Imperial College London
For her pioneering advances in the science of nanostructured and molecular semiconductor materials.
2015
Professor Henning Sirringhaus
University of Cambridge
For transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as our ability to exploit them.
2014
Professor Alexander Giles Davies and Professor Edmund Linfield
University of Leeds
For their outstanding and sustained contributions to the physics and technology of the far-infrared (terahertz) frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
2013
Professor E A Hinds
Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College London
For his innovative and seminal experimental investigations into ultra-cold atoms and molecules.
2012
Professor J R Sambles
University of Exeter
For his pioneering research in experimental condensed matter physics.
2011
Professor Alan Andrew Watson
University of Leeds
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.
2010
Professor Dame Athene Donald
University of Cambridge
For her many highly original studies of the structures and behaviour of polymers both synthetic and natural.
2009
Professor Donal Bradley
Imperial College London
For his pioneering work in the field of ‘plastic electronics’, His experimental investigations have significantly advanced our understanding of the physics of conjugated polymers as semiconductors and helped to demonstrate their widespread application potential.
2008
Professor Roger Cowley
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
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.
Medallists - Guthrie medal and prize
2007
Gilbert George Lonzarich
Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
For his experimental and theoretical contributions to condensed matter physics, in particular to strongly correlated electron systems.
2006
Marshall Stoneham
University College London
For his wide-ranging theoretical work on defects in solids, in particular for his seminal work on the consequences of defects for the electronic properties of materials.
2005
William Frank Vinen
The University of Birmingham
For his outstanding contributions to superfluids and superconductors; in particular for the observation and measurement of quantized vortices in superfluid helium, the first direct confirmation of the application of quantum mechanics to a macroscopic body.
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 Edwin Enderby
1994
Philip George Burke
1993
Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble
1992
Archibald Howie
1991
Dennis William Sciama
1990
Roger James Elliott
1989
Martin J Rees
1988
Alan B 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