Maxwell Medal and Prize
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The Maxwell Medal and Prize is one of the principal awards made annually by the Institute of Physics
. The award is made for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics and is intended to recognize theoretical physicists early in their careers.
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
. The award is made for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics and is intended to recognize theoretical physicists early in their careers.
Maxwell Medalists
- 2011 Andrei Starinets - University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
(St Johns College) - 2010 Peter Haynes - Imperial College
- 2009 Dmitry Skryabin - University of BathUniversity of BathThe University of Bath is a campus university located in Bath, United Kingdom. It received its Royal Charter in 1966....
- 2008 Sougato Bose - University College LondonUniversity College LondonUniversity College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
- 2007 Nigel Cooper - University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
- 2006 Ruth Gregory - University of Durham
- 2005 Clifford Victor JohnsonClifford Victor JohnsonClifford Victor Johnson is an English theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Southern California Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research focus is in superstring theory and particle physics, specifically related to strongly coupled phenomena...
- University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university... - 2004 Martin Bodo Plenio - Imperial College
- 2003 Tchavdar Nikolov Todorov - Queen's University Belfast
- 2002 Andrew John Schofield - University of BirminghamUniversity of BirminghamThe University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
- 2001 Benjamin SimonsBenjamin SimonsBen Simons is a British theoretical physicist, working in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics and in biophysics.Simons is currently Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory. In 2001 he was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize by the Institute...
- University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally... - 2000 Andrew Martin Steane
- 1999 Jeffrey Robert Forshaw
- 1998 Andrew James Fisher
- 1997 Michael Wilkinson - Open UniversityOpen UniversityThe Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
- 1996 Michael Christopher Payne
- 1995 Artur EkertArtur EkertArtur Ekert is a Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, and a Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore and also the Director of CQT...
- 1994 Stephen Mark Barnett
- 1993 John Feather Wheater
- 1992 Neil TurokNeil TurokNeil Geoffrey Turok is the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is the son of Mary and Ben Turok, activists in the anti-apartheid movement and the African National Congress.-Career:...
- 1991 Michael E Cates
- 1990 George Petros EfstathiouGeorge EfstathiouGeorge Petros Efstathiou FRS is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology at the University of Cambridge...
- 1989 Mark Warner
- 1988 Robin C Ball
- 1987 Michael Boris Green
- 1986 James BinneyJames BinneyJames Jeffrey Binney, FRS, FInstP is a British astrophysicist. He is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is head of the Sub-Department of Theoretical Physics as well as a Professorial Fellow at Merton College...
- 1985 Alan John Bray and Allan Peter Young
- 1984 David William Bullett
- 1983 Alastair Douglas Bruce
- 1982 Jonathan Richard Ellis
- 1981 John M. KosterlitzJohn M. KosterlitzJohn Michael Kosterlitz is a professor of physics at Brown University. He received the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society in 2000, and the Maxwell Medal and Prize from the British Institute of Physics in 1981, for his work on the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. He is a Fellow of...
- 1980 David WallaceDavid Wallace (physicist)Professor Sir David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, DL is the Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge....
- 1979 Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith
- 1978 Michael Berry
- 1977 Eric Jakeman
- 1976 Stephen William Hawking
- 1975 Anthony James LeggettAnthony James LeggettSir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS , aka Tony Leggett, has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983....
- 1974 Samuel Frederick Edwards
- 1973 David J. Thouless
- 1972 Volker HeineVolker HeineVolker Heine FRS is a New Zealand-British physicist.He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago, then Clare College, Cambridge where he became a fellow and professor. He obtained his PhD in physics in Cambridge as student of Sir Nevill Mott.He was elected Fellow of...
- 1971 John Bryan TaylorJohn Bryan TaylorJohn Bryan Taylor is a British physicist known for his important contributions to plasma physics and their application in the field of fusion energy. Notable among these is the development of the "Taylor state", describing a minimum-energy configuration that conserves magnetic helicity...
- 1970 Richard John Eden
- 1968 Roger James ElliottRoger James ElliottSir Roger James Elliott is a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor and optical properties of condensed matter....
and Kenneth William Harry Stevens - 1966 Richard Henry Dalitz
- 1964 Walter Charles Marshall
- 1962 Abdus SalamAbdus SalamMohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...