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Encyclopedia > Young Medal and Prize

The Young Medal and Prize is a prize awarded on odd numbered years by the Institute of Physics in the memory of Tomas Young for distinguished research in the field of optics, including physics outside the visible region. The Institute of Physics (IOP) is the United Kingdoms professional body for physicists. ... Table of Opticks, 1728 Cyclopaedia Optics ( appearance or look in ancient Greek) is a branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter. ...


Young Medalists

2007 - James Roy Taylor


2005 - Philip St John Russell


2003 - J Roy Sambles Professor J Roy Sambles FRS BSc PhD, is an English experimental physicist. ...


2001 - Stephen J Pennycook


1999 - Peter Leonard Knight


1997 - Keith Burnett


1995 - John Gilroy Rarity and Paul Richard Tapster


1993 - John Christopher Dainty


1991 - Parameswaran Hariharan


1989 - Leonard Mandel Leonard Mandel Mandel was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester, having become emeritus only a few months before he died, at the age of 73, at his home in Pittsford, New York. ...


1987 - Rodney Loudon


1985 - John David Lawson


1983 - James Morris Burch


1981 - Nicholas John Phillips


1979 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ...


1977 - Robert Clark Jones


1975 - Daniel Joseph Bradley


1973 - Walter Thompson Welford


1971 - Charles Gorrie Wynne


1969 - Giuliano Toraldo di Francia


1967 - Dennis Gabor Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (June 5, 1900, Budapest – February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor who is most notable for inventing holography. ...


1965 - André Maréchal


1963 - Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, American physicist and educator. ... Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921-April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. ...

External links

  • information about the award at the Institute of Physics


 

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