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{{short description|Award for outstanding contributions to experimental physics}}
{{about|the medal and prize awarded by the Institute of Physics (IOP)|other prizes named after Michael Faraday|Faraday Prize (disambiguation)}}
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| awarded_for      = Outstanding contributions to experimental physics
| sponsor          = [[Institute of Physics]]
| country          = {{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom
| former name      = Guthrie Medal and Prize
| reward           = Gold medal, £1000
| year             = 1914
| website          = {{URL|http://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/faraday/page_38445.html |Official website}}
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The '''Michael Faraday Medal and Prize''' is a gold medal awarded annually by the [[Institute of Physics]] in [[experimental physics]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/page_38424.html | title=Gold medals | publisher=[[Institute of Physics]] |quote=The Faraday medal: Awarded for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics, to a physicist of international reputation}}</ref> The award is made "for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/faraday/page_38445.html|title=Michael Faraday Medal and Prize |publisher=[[Institute of Physics]]|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref>
[[File:Faraday-Millikan-Gale-1913.jpg|thumb|150px|right|upright=0.85|[[Michael Faraday]]<br>(1791 - 1867)]]
== Historical development ==
* 1914-1965  '''Guthrie Lecture''' initiated to remember [[Frederick Guthrie (scientist)|Frederick Guthrie]],<ref>{{cite journal
|author =  G. Carey-Foster
|  title = Introduction to the First Guthrie Lecture
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 26
|   pages = 183–184
|   url = http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0370-1328/26/1/322/
|   year = 1913
|   doi = 10.1088/1478-7814/26/1/322
}}</ref> founder of the [[Physical Society of London|Physical Society]] (which merged with the Institute of Physics in 1960).
* 1966-2007 '''Guthrie Medal and Prize'''  (in response to changed conditions from when the lecture was first established). From 1992, it became one of the Institute's Premier Awards.
* 2008–present '''Michael Faraday Medal and Prize'''
== Medalists and lecturers ==
===Faraday medalists===
* 2024 [[Laura Herz]], "For pioneering advances in the photophysics of next-generation semiconductors, accomplished through innovative spectroscopic experiments."
* 2023 [[Neil Alford]], [[Mark Oxborrow]], [[Chris Kay]], [[Jonathan Breeze]], [[Juna Sathian]] and [[Enrico Salvadori]], "For their discovery of the world's first room-temperature solid-state organic maser and subsequent discovery of room-temperature continuous wave masing in diamond."
* 2022 [[Nikolay Zheludev]], "For international leadership, discoveries and in-depth studies of new phenomena and functionalities in photonic nanostructures and nanostructured matter."
* 2021 [[Bucker Dangor]], "For outstanding contributions to experimental plasma physics, and in particular for his role in the development of the field of laser-plasma acceleration."
* 2020 [[Richard Ellis (astronomer)|Richard Ellis]], "For over 35 years of pioneering contributions in faint-object astronomy, often with instruments he funded and constructed, which have opened up the early universe to direct observations."
* 2019 [[J. Roy Taylor|Roy Taylor]], "For his extensive, internationally leading contributions to the development of spectrally diverse, ultrafast-laser sources and pioneering fundamental studies of nonlinear fibre optics that have translated to scientific and commercial application."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.myscience.uk/news/wire/comet_chasing_and_animal_ai_news_from_the_college-2019-imperial|title=Comet chasing and Animal AI: News from the College|website=www.myscience.uk|date=5 July 2019 }}</ref>
* 2018 [[Jennifer Thomas (physicist)|Jennifer Thomas]], "For her outstanding investigations into the physics of neutrino oscillations, in particular her leadership of the MINOS/MINOS+ long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://supernemo.org/supernemo/2018/11/21/medals.html|title=Medals for SuperNEMO collaborators|publisher=SuperNEMO Collaboration|date=21 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2018/jul/three-ucl-academics-recognised-prestigious-physics-prizes|title=Three UCL academics recognised with prestigious physics prizes|date=July 11, 2018|website=UCL News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/2637553/files/vol58-issue7-p067-e.pdf |title=IOP award winners for 2018 announced |work=CERN Courier |page=67 |issue=September 2018}}</ref>
*2017 [[Jeremy Baumberg]], "For his investigations of many ingenious nanostructures supporting novel and precisely engineered plasmonic phenomena relevant to single molecule and atom dynamics, Raman spectroscopies and metamaterials applications."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/news/jeremy-baumberg-awarded-the-2017-iop-michael-faraday-medal-and-prize|title=Jeremy Baumberg awarded the 2017 IOP Michael Faraday Medal and Prize — Department of Physics|date=3 July 2017 |publisher=University of Cambridge}}</ref>
*2016 [[Jenny Nelson]]," For her pioneering advances in the science of nanostructured and molecular semiconductor materials "
*2015 [[Henning Sirringhaus]], "For transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in [[organic semiconductor]]s as well as our ability to exploit them"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/academia-research/transformational-sirringhaus-wins-faraday-medal |title=Transformational Sirringhaus wins Faraday Medal |work=Business Weekly |first=Tony |last=Quested |date=10 July 2015}}</ref>
*2014  [[Giles Davies|Alexander Giles Davies]] and [[Edmund Linfield]], "For their outstanding and sustained contributions to the physics and technology of the far-infrared (terahertz) frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3548/terahertz_researchers_win_faraday_medal|title=Terahertz researchers win Faraday Medal|first=Christopher|last=Bunting|website=www.leeds.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://terasense.com/news/the-faraday-medal-2014-has-found-its-heroes-in-terahertz-field/|title=The Faraday Medal-2014 has found its heroes in terahertz field|publisher=TeraSense Group |date=21 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16564630/university-of-leeds-terahertz-researchers-win-2014-faraday-award|title=University of Leeds terahertz researchers win 2014 Faraday Award|publisher=Laser Focus World|date=3 July 2014}}</ref>
*2013 [[Edward Hinds]], "For his innovative and seminal experimental investigations into ultra-cold atoms and molecules"
*2012 [[Roy Sambles]], "For his pioneering research in experimental [[condensed matter physics]]"
*2011 [[Alan Andrew Watson]], "For his outstanding leadership within the [[Pierre Auger Observatory]], and the insights he has provided to the origin and nature of ultra high energy cosmic rays"<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Fellow wins IoP Faraday Medal|date=October 1, 2011|journal=Astronomy & Geophysics|volume=52|issue=5|pages=5.39|doi=10.1111/j.1468-4004.2011.52539_3.x|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*2010 [[Athene Donald]], "For her many highly original studies of the structures and behaviour of polymers both synthetic and natural"
* 2009 [[Donal Bradley]], "For his pioneering work in the field of '[[plastic electronics]]'"
* 2008 [[Roger Cowley]], "For pioneering work in the development and application of neutron and X-ray scattering techniques to the physics of a wide range of important solid and liquid-state systems"
===Guthrie medalists===
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* 2007 [[Gilbert Lonzarich]], "for his experimental and theoretical contributions to condensed matter physics"
* 2006 [[Marshall Stoneham]], "for his wide-ranging theoretical work on defects in solids"
* 2005 [[William Frank Vinen]], "for his outstanding contributions to superfluids and superconductors"
* 2004 [[Henry Hall (physicist)|Henry Hall]]
* 2003 [[Michael Springford]]
* 2002 [[Penelope Jane Brown]]
* 2001 [[Laurence Eaves]]
* 2000 [[Lawrence Michael Brown]]
* 1999 [[George Bacon (physicist)|George Bacon]]
* 1998 [[Derek Charles Robinson]]
* 1997 [[John Evan Baldwin]]
* 1996 [[Edward Roy Pike]]
* 1995 [[John Enderby]]
* 1994 [[Philip George Burke]]
* 1993 [[Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble|Tom Kibble]]
* 1992 [[Archibald Howie]]
* 1991 [[Dennis William Sciama]]
* 1990 [[Roger James Elliott]]
* 1989 [[Martin J. Rees]]
* 1988 [[Alan Lidiard]]
* 1987 [[Samuel Frederick Edwards]]
* 1986 [[Denys Haigh Wilkinson]]
* 1985 [[Michael Pepper]]
* 1984 [[Michael John Seaton]]
* 1983 [[Jeffrey Goldstone]]
* 1982 [[Frederick Charles Frank]]
* 1981 [[John Clive Ward]]
* 1980 [[Michael Ellis Fisher]]
* 1979 [[Donald Hill Perkins]]
* 1978 [[Philip Warren Anderson]]
* 1977 [[Alan Howard Cottrell]]
* 1976 [[Abdus Salam]]
* 1975 [[David Tabor (physicist)|David Tabor]]
* 1974 [[Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer]]
* 1973 [[Hermann Bondi]]
* 1972 [[Brian David Josephson]]
* 1971 [[John Ashworth Ratcliffe]]
* 1970 [[Alfred Brian Pippard]]
* 1969 [[Cecil Frank Powell]]
* 1968 [[Rudolf Peierls|Rudolf Ernst Peierls]]
* 1967 [[James Chadwick]]
* 1966 [[William Cochran (physicist)|William Cochran]]
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===Guthrie lecturers===
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* 1965 [[John Adams (physicist)|John Bertram Adams]]
* 1964 [[Martin Ryle]]
* 1963 [[Leslie Fleetwood Bates]]
* 1962 [[Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell]]<ref>{{cite journal
|author = A. C. B. Lovell
|  title = 1962 Guthrie Lecture: The Physical Basis of the Research Programmes at Jodrell Bank
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 81
| issue = 3
|   pages = 385–411
|   year = 1963
|   doi = 10.1088/0370-1328/81/3/301
|   bibcode = 1963PPS....81..385L
}}</ref>
* 1961 [[David Shoenberg]]
* 1960 [[Fred Hoyle]]
* 1959 [[Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey]]
* 1958 [[Willis Eugene Lamb]]
* 1957 [[Harold Urey|Harold C Urey]]
* 1956 [[Francis Simon]]
* 1955 [[Edmund Clifton Stoner]]
* 1954 [[Geoffrey Ingram Taylor|Geoffrey Taylor]]
* 1953 [[Max Born]]
* 1952 [[Lawrence Bragg|W Lawrence Bragg]]
* 1951 [[Nevill Francis Mott]]
* 1950 [[George Ingle Finch]]
* 1949 [[Alexander Oliver Rankine]]
* 1948 [[George Paget Thomson]]
* 1947 [[John Desmond Bernal]]
* 1946 [[Max Jakob]]
* 1945 {{ill|Arturo Duperier|es|Arturo Duperier Vallesa}}: "The Geophysical Aspect of Cosmic Rays"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = A. Duperier
|  title = The Geophysical Aspect of Cosmic Rays
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society
|   volume = 57
| issue = 6
|   pages =  464–477
|   year = 1945
|   doi = 10.1088/0959-5309/57/6/302
|   bibcode = 1945PPS....57..464D
}}</ref>
* 1944 [[Joel Hildebrand|Joel H Hildebrand]]
* 1943 [[E. T. Whittaker|Edward T. Whittaker]]: "Chance, freewill and necessity, in the scientific conception of the universe"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = E.T. Whittaker
|  title = Chance, freewill and necessity, in the scientific conception of the universe
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society
|   volume = 55
| issue = 6
|   pages =  459–471
|   year = 1943
|   doi = 10.1088/0959-5309/55/6/303
|   bibcode = 1943PPS....55..459W
}}</ref>
* 1942 [[Edward Victor Appleton|Edward V Appleton]]
* 1941 [[Edward Neville da Costa Andrade]]
* 1940 [[Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett]]: "Cosmic Rays: Recent Developments"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = P.M.S. Blackett
|  title = Cosmic Rays: Recent Developments
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society
|   volume = 53
| issue = 3
|   pages = 203–213
|   year = 1941
|   doi = 10.1088/0959-5309/53/3/301
|   bibcode = 1941PPS....53..203B
}}</ref>
* 1939 (no lecture)
* 1938 [[Archibald Vivian Hill]]: "The transformations of energy and the mechanical work of muscles"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = A.V. Hill
|  title = The transformations of energy and the mechanical work of muscles
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society
|   volume = 51
| issue = 1
|   pages = 1–18
|   issn=0959-5309
|   year = 1939
|   doi = 10.1088/0959-5309/51/1/302
|   bibcode = 1939PPS....51....1H
}}</ref>
* 1937 [[Clifford Copland Paterson]]
* 1936 [[Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell|Frederick A. Lindemann]]: "Physical Ultimates"<ref>{{Cite journal
| year = 1936
| title = Guthrie Lecture: Prof. F. A. Lindemann, F.R.S
| journal = Nature
| volume = 137
| issue = 3472
| pages = 809
| doi = 10.1038/137809c0
| bibcode = 1936Natur.137S.809.| doi-access = free
}}
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* 1935 [[Arthur Holly Compton]]: "An attempt to analyse Cosmic Rays"
* 1934 [[Charles Vernon Boys]]: "My recent progress in Gas Calorimetry"
* 1933 [[Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn]]
* 1932 [[Max Planck]]
* 1931 [[Richard Glazebrook|Richard T Glazebrook]]
* 1930 [[Peter Debye]]
* 1929 [[Percy Williams Bridgman]]
* 1928 [[J. J. Thomson]]
* 1927 [[Ernest Rutherford|Sir Ernest Rutherford]]: "Atomic nuclei and their transformations"<ref>{{cite journal
|   author = Ernest Rutherford
|  title = Atomic nuclei and their transformations
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society
|   volume = 39
| issue = 1
|   pages = 359–371
|   year = 1926
|   doi = 10.1088/0959-5309/39/1/332
|   bibcode = 1926PPS....39..359R
}}</ref>
* 1926 [[Charles Fabry]]
* 1925 [[Wilhelm Wien]]
* 1924 [[Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie|Maurice le Duc de Broglie]]
* 1923 [[James Hopwood Jeans]]
* 1922 [[Niels Bohr]]: "The Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = N. Bohr
|  title = The Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 35
| issue = 1
|   pages = 275–302
|   year = 1922
|   doi = 10.1088/1478-7814/35/1/342
|   bibcode = 1922PPSL...35..275B
| url = https://zenodo.org/record/2303349
|   hdl = 2027/mdp.39015076062705
|   hdl-access = free
}}</ref>
* 1921 [[Albert Abraham Michelson]]: "Some Recent Applications of Interference Methods"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = A.A. Michelson
|  title = Some Recent Applications of Interference Methods
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 33
| issue = 1
|   pages = 275–285
|   year = 1920
|   doi = 10.1088/1478-7814/33/1/328
|   bibcode = 1920PPSL...33..275M
}}</ref>
* 1920 [[Charles Guillaume|Charles Edouarde Guillaume]]: "The Anomaly of Nickel-Steels"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = Charles Edouard Guillaume
|  title = The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 32
| issue = 1
|   pages = 374–404
|   issn = 1478-7814
|   year = 1919
|   doi = 10.1088/1478-7814/32/1/337
|   bibcode = 1919PPSL...32..374E
}}</ref>
* 1919 (no lecture)
* 1918 [[John Cunningham McLennan]]: "The Origin of Spectra"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = J.C. McLennan
|  title = The Origin of Spectra
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 31
| issue = 1
|   pages = 1–29
|   year = 1918
|   doi = 10.1088/1478-7814/31/1/301
|   bibcode = 1918PPSL...31....1M
}}</ref>
* 1917 [[Paul Langevin]]
* 1916 [[William Bate Hardy]]: "Some Problems of Living Matter"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = W.B. Hardy
|  title = Some Problems of Living Matter
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 28
| issue = 1
|   pages = 99–118
|   year = 1915
|   doi = 10.1088/1478-7814/28/1/312
|   bibcode = 1915PPSL...28...99H
| url = https://zenodo.org/record/1831852
}}</ref>
* 1915 (no lecture)
* 1914 [[Robert Williams Wood]]: "Radiation of Gas Molecules Excited by Light"<ref>{{cite journal
|author = R. W. Wood
|  title = Radiation of Gas Molecules Excited by Light
|   journal = Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
|   volume = 26
| issue = 1
|   pages = 374–404
|   year = 1913
|   doi = 10.1088/1478-7814/26/1/323
|   bibcode = 1913PPSL...26..185W
| s2cid = 33165912
| url = https://zenodo.org/record/1547478
}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* [http://www.iop.org/about/awards/gold/faraday/medallists/page_38448.html List of Faraday Medal and Prize recipients and some Guthrie medal and prize recipients]
== See also ==
* [[Institute of Physics Awards]]
* [[List of physics awards]]
* [[List of awards named after people]]
== References ==
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[[Category:Awards established in 1914]]
[[Category:Awards of the Institute of Physics]]