Thomas Young Medal and Prize
Appearance
The Young Medal and Prize is a prize awarded on odd numbered years by the Institute of Physics in the memory of Thomas Young for distinguished research in the field of optics, including physics outside the visible region. [1]
Originally established by the Optical Society in 1907 as the Thomas Young Oration 'on an optical subject', the orator was later chosen by the Physical Society after the two societies had merged in 1932 and subsequently converted to a medal and prize after the Physical Society had in turn merged with the Institute of Physics in 1960.
Recipients
Source: Institute of Physics
- 2015 - Nikolay I. Zheludev
- 2013 - Jeremy J Baumberg
- 2011 - Ian A Walmsley
- 2009 - Leslie Allen and Miles Padgett
- 2008 - Patrick Gill
- 2007 - James Roy Taylor
- 2005 - Philip Russell
- 2003 - J Roy Sambles
- 2001 - Stephen J Pennycook
- 1999 - Peter Leonard Knight
- 1997 - Keith Burnett
- 1995 - John Rarity and Paul Richard Tapster
- 1993 - John Christopher Dainty
- 1991 - Parameswaran Hariharan
- 1989 - Leonard Mandel
- 1987 - Rodney Loudon
- 1985 - John David Lawson
- 1983 - James Morris Burch
- 1981 - Nicholas John Phillips
- 1979 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
- 1977 - Robert Clark Jones
- 1975 - Daniel Joseph Bradley
- 1973 - Walter Thompson Welford
- 1971 - Charles Gorrie Wynne
- 1969 - Giuliano Toraldo di Francia
- 1967 - Dennis Gabor
- 1965 - André Maréchal
- 1963 - Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Thomas Young Orators
- 1962 - Harold Horace Hopkins (21st oration)
- 1960 - Robert William Ditchburn
- 1955 - W. S. Stiles (18th)
- 1951 - W. David Wright
- 1945 - Ragnar Granit
- 1943 - Sir Frederic Bartlett (13th)
- 1941 - H. Spencer Jones
- 1939 - Malcolm Neynoe MacLeod, Director General of the Ordnance Survey
- 1937 - R. J. Lythgoe
- 1935 - Charles Fabry
- 1933 - Herbert Eugene Ives
- 1930 - John H. Parsons
- 1928 - George Willis Ritchie
- 1923 - Moritz von Rohr
- 1914 - Sir James Crichton-Browne
- 1912? - Charles Sheard
- 1910 - Robert William Wood
- 1907 - M. H. E. Tscherning (1st Oration)
References
- ^ "Young Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 7 December 2014.