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Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics
Dirac
Medal of the
Institute of Physics
for outstanding contribution to theoretical, mathematical and
computational physics.
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| 2008 | Bryan Webber | For pioneering work in understanding and applying quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong interaction which is one of the three fundamental forces of nature. | ||||
| 2007 | David Sherrington | |||||
| 2006 | Michael Gillan | |||||
| 2005 | John Ellis | |||||
| 2004 | Michael Green |
Michael Boris Green FRS (born 22 May 1946) is a British physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory. Currently a professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in England, he succeeded Stephen Hawking on 1 November 2009 as the...
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| 2003 | Christopher Michael Hull | |||||
| 2002 | John Howard Hannay | |||||
| 2001 | Brian Kidd Ridley | |||||
| 2000 | John Lawrence Cardy | |||||
| 1999 | Ian C Percival | |||||
| 1998 | David Deutsch |
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David Elieser Deutsch FRS (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory....
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| 1997 | Peter Higgs |
Peter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC (born 29 May 1929), is an English theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.
He is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the...
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| 1996 | John Pendry |
Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS FInstP (born 4 July 1943) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indexes and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak". He is now a chair in Theoretical solid state physics at...
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| 1995 | Daniel Frank Walls |
Daniel Walls (1942 - 1999) was a theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics.
Dan Walls gained a BSc in physics and mathematics and a first class honours MSc in physics at the University of Auckland. He then went to Harvard as a Fulbright...
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| 1994 | Volker Heine |
Volker Heine FRS (born 19 September 1930 in Hamburg, Germany) is a New Zealand-British physicist.
He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago, then Clare College, Cambridge where he became a fellow and professor. He...
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| 1993 | David Thouless |
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David J. Thouless (born in 1934 in Bearsden, Scotland) is a condensed matter physicist and Wolf Prize winner.
Thouless earned his PhD at Cornell University under Hans Bethe. He was a professor of mathematical physics at Birmingham University in the...
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| 1992 | Anthony James Leggett |
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Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS (born 26 March 1938, Camberwell, London, UK), aka Tony Leggett, is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
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| 1991 | Rudolf Peierls |
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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5, 1907, Berlin – September 19, 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. Rudolf Peierls had a major role in Britain's nuclear program, but he also had a role in many modern sciences. His impact on physics...
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| 1990 | Michael Berry |
Michael Victor Berry (born 14 March 1941), is a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982 and knighted in 1996. From 2006 he has been Editor of the journal, Proceedings of the...
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| 1989 | Roger Penrose |
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Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He has received a number...
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| 1988 | John Stewart Bell |
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John Stewart Bell (28 June 1928 – 1 October 1990) was a physicist, and the originator of Bell's Theorem, one of the most important theorems in quantum physics.
He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and graduated in experimental physics at the...
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| 1987 | Stephen Hawking |
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Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, whose world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an...
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