Isaac Newton Medal

The Isaac Newton Medal is a medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics accompanied by a prize of £1,000. The award is given to a physicist, regardless of subject area, background or nationality, for outstanding contributions to physics. The award winner is invited to give a lecture at the Institute.

Recipients

• 2015 Eli Yablonovitch for his "visionary and foundational contributions to photonic nanostructures".
• 2014 Deborah S. Jin for "pioneering the field of quantum-degenerate Fermi gases".
• 2013 John Pendry for his “seminal contributions to surface science, disordered systems and photonics”.
• 2012 Martin Rees for his outstanding contributions to relativistic astrophysics and cosmology.
• 2011 Leo Kadanoff for "inventing conceptual tools that reveal the deep implications of scale invariance on the behavior of phase transitions and dynamical systems."
• 2010 Edward Witten for "his many profound contributions that have transformed areas of particle theory, quantum field theory and general relativity."
• 2009 Alan Guth for "his invention of the inflationary universe model, his recognition that inflation would solve major problems confronting then-standard cosmology, and his calculation, with others, of the spectrum of density fluctuations that gave rise to structure in the universe".
• 2008 Anton Zeilinger for "his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information".

External links

• Isaac Newton medal of the Institute of Physics
• Recipients of the Isaac Newton medal of the Institute of Physics