Institute of Physics Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize
- For other similarly named awards, see Rutherford Medal
The Rutherford Medal and Prize is a subject award of the Institute of Physics,[1] presented once every two years for distinguished research in nuclear physics or nuclear technology.
History
Dedicated to the late Lord Rutherford of Nelson, the Rutherford Memorial Lecture was instituted by the Council of The Physical Society in 1939. The first lecture took place in 1942. The lecture was converted into a medal and prize in 1965, and the first Rutherford Medal and Prize was awarded the following year.
"The award shall be made for distinguished research in nuclear physics or nuclear technology. The medal shall be bronze and shall be accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate."[2]
Recipients
Source: Rutherford medal recipients, Institute of Physics
Lecturers (1942–1964)
- 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: Reminiscences of the Founder of Nuclear Science and of Some Developments Based on his Work
- 1960 Cecil Powell
- 1962 Denys Wilkinson
- 1964 Peter Fowler: π mesons versus cancer?
Rutherford Medal and Prize (1966 onwards)
- 1966 Peter Kapitza
- 1968 Brian Flowers
- 1970 Samuel Devons
- 1972 Aage Bohr
- 1973 James MacDonald Cassels
- 1974 Albert Edward Litherland
- 1976 Joan Maie Freeman and Roger John Blin-Stoyle
- 1978 Paul Taunton Matthews
- 1980 Paul Gayleard Murphy and John James Thresher
- 1982 David Maurice Brink
- 1984 Peter Higgs and Tom W. B. Kibble
- 1986 Alan Astbury
- 1988 John Dowell and Peter I P Kalmus
- 1990 Roger Julian Noel Phillips
- 1992 Erwin Gabathuler and Terry Sloan
- 1994 James Philip Elliott
- 1996 David Vernon Bugg
- 1998 Anthony Michael Hillas
- 2000 William R Phillips
- 2002 Peter John Dornan, David Plane and Wilber Venus
- 2004 David L Wark
- 2006 Ken Peach: for his contributions to high energy physics as leader of key experiments at CERN
- 2008 Dr Alan Copestake, Dr Stephen Walley, Mr John Stewart Kiltie, Mr Chris Weston and Mr Brian Griffin: for the development of a long-life nuclear reactor core for UK submarines.
- 2010 Martin Freer: for establishing the existence of nuclear configurations analogous to molecules
- 2012 Peter Butler:[3] for his outstanding work in the field of experimental nuclear physics and his dynamic contributions to the future direction of the field
- 2014 Paul Nolan: for his outstanding contributions to Nuclear structure at extremes of angular momentum
