Payne-Gaposchkin Medal

Payne-Gaposchkin Medal for distinguished research in plasma, solar or space physics.

Award category

Presenting Organization

Institute of Physics

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics, and is the UK and Ireland's main professional body for physicists. It was founded as the Physical Society in 1874 and it now has over 36,000 members worldwide. It...

Winners:

Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 2008
  • For his seminal theoretical contributions to magnetically-confined fusion energy research.
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