# Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics in experimental physics. The award is made "for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.

## Historical development

* 1914-1965 Guthrie Lecture initiated to remember Frederick Guthrie, founder of the Physical Society (which merged with the Institute of Physics in 1960).
* 1966-2007 Guthrie Medal and Prize (in response to changed conditions from when the lecture was first established). From 1992, it became one of the Institute's Premier Awards.
* 2008–present Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

## Medalists and lecturers
### Faraday medalists

* 2024 Laura Herz, "For pioneering advances in the photophysics of next-generation semiconductors, accomplished through innovative spectroscopic experiments."
* 2023 Neil Alford, Mark Oxborrow, Chris Kay, Jonathan Breeze, Juna Sathian and Enrico Salvadori, "For their discovery of the world's first room-temperature solid-state organic maser and subsequent discovery of room-temperature continuous wave masing in diamond."
* 2022 Nikolay Zheludev, "For international leadership, discoveries and in-depth studies of new phenomena and functionalities in photonic nanostructures and nanostructured matter."
* 2021 Bucker Dangor, "For outstanding contributions to experimental plasma physics, and in particular for his role in the development of the field of laser-plasma acceleration."
* 2020 Richard Ellis, "For over 35 years of pioneering contributions in faint-object astronomy, often with instruments he funded and constructed, which have opened up the early universe to direct observations."
* 2019 Roy Taylor, "For his extensive, internationally leading contributions to the development of spectrally diverse, ultrafast-laser sources and pioneering fundamental studies of nonlinear fibre optics that have translated to scientific and commercial application."
* 2018 Jennifer Thomas, "For her outstanding investigations into the physics of neutrino oscillations, in particular her leadership of the MINOS/MINOS+ long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment."
* 2017 Jeremy Baumberg, "For his investigations of many ingenious nanostructures supporting novel and precisely engineered plasmonic phenomena relevant to single molecule and atom dynamics, Raman spectroscopies and metamaterials applications."
* 2016 Jenny Nelson," For her pioneering advances in the science of nanostructured and molecular semiconductor materials "
* 2015 Henning Sirringhaus, "For transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as our ability to exploit them"
* 2014 Alexander Giles Davies and Edmund Linfield, "For their outstanding and sustained contributions to the physics and technology of the far-infrared (terahertz) frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum"
* 2013 Edward Hinds, "For his innovative and seminal experimental investigations into ultra-cold atoms and molecules"
* 2012 Roy Sambles, "For his pioneering research in experimental condensed matter physics"
* 2011 Alan Andrew Watson, "For his outstanding leadership within the Pierre Auger Observatory, and the insights he has provided to the origin and nature of ultra high energy cosmic rays"
* 2010 Athene Donald, "For her many highly original studies of the structures and behaviour of polymers both synthetic and natural"
* 2009 Donal Bradley, "For his pioneering work in the field of 'plastic electronics'"
* 2008 Roger Cowley, "For pioneering work in the development and application of neutron and X-ray scattering techniques to the physics of a wide range of important solid and liquid-state systems"

### Guthrie medalists

* 2007 Gilbert Lonzarich, "for his experimental and theoretical contributions to condensed matter physics"
* 2006 Marshall Stoneham, "for his wide-ranging theoretical work on defects in solids"
* 2005 William Frank Vinen, "for his outstanding contributions to superfluids and superconductors"
* 2004 Henry Hall
* 2003 Michael Springford
* 2002 Penelope Jane Brown
* 2001 Laurence Eaves
* 2000 Lawrence Michael Brown
* 1999 George Bacon
* 1998 Derek Charles Robinson
* 1997 John Evan Baldwin
* 1996 Edward Roy Pike
* 1995 John Enderby
* 1994 Philip George Burke
* 1993 Tom Kibble
* 1992 Archibald Howie
* 1991 Dennis William Sciama
* 1990 Roger James Elliott
* 1989 Martin J. Rees
* 1988 Alan Lidiard
* 1987 Samuel Frederick Edwards
* 1986 Denys Haigh Wilkinson
* 1985 Michael Pepper
* 1984 Michael John Seaton
* 1983 Jeffrey Goldstone
* 1982 Charles Frank
* 1981 John Clive Ward
* 1980 Michael Ellis Fisher
* 1979 Donald Hill Perkins
* 1978 Philip Warren Anderson
* 1977 Alan Howard Cottrell
* 1976 Abdus Salam
* 1975 David Tabor
* 1974 Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
* 1973 Hermann Bondi
* 1972 Brian David Josephson
* 1971 John Ashworth Ratcliffe
* 1970 Alfred Brian Pippard
* 1969 Cecil Frank Powell
* 1968 Rudolf Ernst Peierls
* 1967 James Chadwick
* 1966 William Cochran

### Guthrie lecturers

* 1965 John Bertram Adams
* 1964 Martin Ryle
* 1963 Leslie Fleetwood Bates
* 1962 Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
* 1961 David Shoenberg
* 1960 Fred Hoyle
* 1959 Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey
* 1958 Willis Eugene Lamb
* 1957 Harold C Urey
* 1956 Francis Simon
* 1955 Edmund Clifton Stoner
* 1954 Geoffrey Taylor
* 1953 Max Born
* 1952 W Lawrence Bragg
* 1951 Nevill Francis Mott
* 1950 George Ingle Finch
* 1949 Alexander Oliver Rankine
* 1948 George Paget Thomson
* 1947 John Desmond Bernal
* 1946 Max Jakob
* 1945 Arturo Duperier [es]: "The Geophysical Aspect of Cosmic Rays"
* 1944 Joel H Hildebrand
* 1943 Edward T. Whittaker: "Chance, freewill and necessity, in the scientific conception of the universe"
* 1942 Edward V Appleton
* 1941 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
* 1940 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett: "Cosmic Rays: Recent Developments"
* 1939 (no lecture)
* 1938 Archibald Vivian Hill: "The transformations of energy and the mechanical work of muscles"
* 1937 Clifford Copland Paterson
* 1936 Frederick A. Lindemann: "Physical Ultimates"
* 1935 Arthur Holly Compton: "An attempt to analyse Cosmic Rays"
* 1934 Charles Vernon Boys: "My recent progress in Gas Calorimetry"
* 1933 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
* 1932 Max Planck
* 1931 Richard T Glazebrook
* 1930 Peter Debye
* 1929 Percy Williams Bridgman
* 1928 J. J. Thomson
* 1927 Sir Ernest Rutherford: "Atomic nuclei and their transformations"
* 1926 Charles Fabry
* 1925 Wilhelm Wien
* 1924 Maurice le Duc de Broglie
* 1923 James Hopwood Jeans
* 1922 Niels Bohr: "The Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines"
* 1921 Albert Abraham Michelson: "Some Recent Applications of Interference Methods"
* 1920 Charles Edouarde Guillaume: "The Anomaly of Nickel-Steels"
* 1919 (no lecture)
* 1918 John Cunningham McLennan: "The Origin of Spectra"
* 1917 Paul Langevin
* 1916 William Bate Hardy: "Some Problems of Living Matter"
* 1915 (no lecture)
* 1914 Robert Williams Wood: "Radiation of Gas Molecules Excited by Light"