Young Medal and Prize

Young Medal and Prize

The Young Medal and Prize is a prize awarded on odd numbered years by the Institute of Physics in the memory of Thomas Young for distinguished research in the field of optics, including physics outside the visible region.

Young Medalists

2007 - James Roy Taylor

2005 - Philip Russell

2003 - J Roy Sambles

2001 - Stephen J Pennycook

1999 - Peter Leonard Knight

1997 - Keith Burnett

1995 - John Rarity and Paul Richard Tapster

1993 - John Christopher Dainty

1991 - Parameswaran Hariharan

1989 - Leonard Mandel

1987 - Rodney Loudon

1985 - John David Lawson

1983 - James Morris Burch

1981 - Nicholas John Phillips

1979 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

1977 - Robert Clark Jones

1975 - Daniel Joseph Bradley

1973 - Walter Thompson Welford

1971 - Charles Gorrie Wynne

1969 - Giuliano Toraldo di Francia

1967 - Dennis Gabor

1965 - André Maréchal

1963 - Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow

External links

* [http://www.iop.org/Our_Activities/Awards/Senior_Awards/The_Thomas_Young_Medal_and_Prize/page_1790.html information about the award at the Institute of Physics]


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