# John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize

The John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize is an award of the UK-based Institute of Physics (IOP) for "distinguished contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics". The award, named in honour of Lord Rayleigh, consists of a medal with £1,000 and a certificate.
The John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize (established in 2008) should not be confused with the Rayleigh Medal, which was established by the Institute of Acoustics in 1970.

## Recipients

| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2008 | John Chalker | University of Oxford | For important original and innovative contributions to solid-state physics, particularly in the area of exotic quantum phenomena. |
| 2009 | Robin Ball | University of Warwick | For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of diverse complex phenomena associated with growth processes and pattern formation. |
| 2011 | Arkady Tseytlin | Imperial College London | For his contributions to the understanding of string theory and of its relation to conventional quantum field theories, and in particular to non-abelian gauge theories that form the basis for our current theoretical description of elementary particle interactions. |
| 2013 | Edmund Copeland | University of Nottingham | For his work on particle/string cosmology from the evolution of cosmic superstrings, to the determination of the nature of Inflation in string cosmology and to constraining dynamical models of dark energy and modified gravity. |
| 2015 | Christopher Pickard | University College London | For his development of new theories and computational tools for the first principles investigation of matter, which have greatly aided the interpretation of magnetic resonance experiments, have revealed a range of unexpected phenomena in materials at extreme pressures, and increasingly underpin computational materials discovery. |
| 2017 | Nigel Glover | Durham University | For pioneering new methods for the application of perturbative quantum chromodynamics to high-energy processes involving energetic jets, leading to sophisticated simulation codes that are being used to describe LHC data. |
| 2018 | Owen Saxton | Murray Edwards College, Cambridge | For his contributions to the Gerchberg-Saxton computer algorithm, decades ahead of its time but now prevalent in phase retrieval, and for his foundational image processing programs, still influential in front line electron microscopy. |
| 2019 | Nigel Cooper | University of Cambridge | For profound contributions to the quantum theory of many-particle systems, concerning both topological phases of cold atoms in artificial gauge fields and novel phenomena in electronic materials. |
| 2020 | Kellogg Stelle | Imperial College London | For his seminal contributions to fundamental physics: the first quantum theory of gravity, the construction of braneworld cosmologies, and the discovery of the supermembrane and fundamental work on supersymmetric field theories and supergravity. |
| 2021 | Jerome P. Gauntlett | Imperial College London | For distinguished contributions to our understanding of string theory and its application to quantum field theory, black holes, condensed matter physics and geometry. |
| 2022 | Benjamin Doyon | King's College London | For pioneering contributions to a new hydrodynamic theory for the large-scale behaviours of integrable systems, which had a major influence in condensed matter, cold atomic and statistical physics research. |
| 2023 | Nikolas Mavromatos | King's College London | For fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, especially the suggestion of quantum gravity-induced modifications of the vacuum optical properties, a proposition that led to a new arena of theoretical and experimental investigation. |