Array with captions for popups. The prize is awarded every two years for contributions to physics or its applications made by an Australian physicist working anywhere in the world, or by a non Australian resident in, and for work carried out in, Australia. A lecture on the work for which the Medal is awarded is presented at Congress in the year of the award, and an article published in The Physicist. The recipient must be a member of the Australian Institute of Physics or of the Institute of Physics. The Massey Award will be presented by IOP President, Professor Sir Gareth Roberts FRS CEng CPhys FInstP, followed by a lecture by the award recipient.
All delegates are welcome to attend.
Return to the top . Physicists have long known that travel into the future is possible, but travel into the past is far more problematic. However, recent research on wormholes in space have led to renewed speculation that visiting the past may be possible. Ways to avoid the inevitable paradoxes have been suggested, involving the existence of parallel universes. Paul Davies was born in London in 1946, obtained a doctorate from University College London in 1970, and held academic appointments at Cambridge and London Universities until, at the age of 34, he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.