Institute of Physics Awards

The Institute’s Awards exist to recognise and reward outstanding achievements by physicists in their respective fields.

It is our aim to identify and honour physicists who are today making remarkable contributions and to encourage younger members of our community to greater success in the future. The process of identification increases the sense of community within our Institute and the celebration of these accomplishments serves to raise the profile of physics internationally.

In 2008 our awards portfolio expanded to keep pace with the research interests of our community and to ensure that we cover all areas of modern physics.  Many of the awards remained unchanged, but four were renamed and ten new awards were established.  

Awards within the gift of Council:

International
Isaac Newton medal of the Institute of Physics

Gold Medals
Business and Innovation medal of the Institute of Physics
Dirac medal of the Institute of Physics
Faraday medal of the Institute of Physics
Glazebrook of the Institute of Physics

Education and Outreach Awards
Bragg medal and prize
Kelvin medal and prize

Subject Awards

Awarded in odd-dated years
Chadwick medal and prize
Joule medal and prize
Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize
Mott medal and prize
Rayleigh medal and prize
Tabor medal and prize
Young medal and prize

Awarded in even-dated years
Appleton medal and prize
Franklin medal and prize
Gabor medal and prize
Hoyle medal and prize
Rutherford medal and prize
Thomson medal and prize

Early Career Awards
Maxwell medal and prize
Moseley medal and prize
Paterson medal and prize

International Bilateral Awards
Born medal and prize
Holweck medal and prize
Massey medal and prize
Occhialini medal and prize

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