Higgs has been honored with a number of awards in recognition of his work , including the 1981 Hughes Medal from the Royal Society , the 1984 Rutherford Medal from the Institute of Physics , the 1997 Dirac Medal and Prize for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics from the Institute of Physics , the 1997 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize by the European Physical Society , the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics , the 2009 Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , the 2010 American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics and a unique Higgs Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012 .
These include the 1997 Dirac Medal and Prize for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics , the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics , and the 2010 Sakurai Prize .