Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal

Recipients

• 2019 - Sir Michael Pepper for "the creation of the field of semiconductor nanoelectronics and discovery of new quantum phenomena"
• 2018 - Paul Corkum for "his outstanding contributions to experimental physics"
• 2017 – Charles L. Bennett for his "leadership of the Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a satellite experiment that revolutionized cosmology, transforming it from an order-of-magnitude game to a paragon of precision science".
• 2016 – Tom Kibble for his "outstanding lifelong commitment to physics".
• 2015 – Eli Yablonovitch for his "visionary and foundational contributions to photonic nanostructures".
• 2014 – Deborah S. Jin for "pioneering the field of quantum-degenerate Fermi gases".
• 2013 – John Pendry for his “seminal contributions to surface science, disordered systems and photonics”.
• 2012 – Martin Rees for his outstanding contributions to relativistic astrophysics and cosmology.
• 2011 – Leo Kadanoff for "inventing conceptual tools that reveal the deep implications of scale invariance on the behavior of phase transitions and dynamical systems."
• 2010 – Edward Witten for "his many profound contributions that have transformed areas of particle theory, quantum field theory and general relativity."
• 2009 – Alan Guth for "his invention of the inflationary universe model, his recognition that inflation would solve major problems confronting then-standard cosmology, and his calculation, with others, of the spectrum of density fluctuations that gave rise to structure in the universe".
• 2008 – Anton Zeilinger for "his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information".