Seven Members of the LCN Community Receive Institute of Physics Awards4 October 2007
The Institute of Physics has announced the winners of its 2008 awards and medals. Ten new awards have been introduced this year to ensure that the awards scheme keeps pace with the research interests of the physics community. The awards recognise a broad range of physicists in fields as diverse as biological physics, particle and astrophysics. Seven members of the LCN community have received awards for 2008, they include:
Professor Gabriel Aeppli, (Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Quain Professor of Physics at UCL) has been awarded the Mott Medal for distinguished research in condensed matter or materials physics, "for pioneering and highly influential work on the magnetic properties of novel materials using neutron scattering";
Professor Sougato Bose (UCL Physics & Astronomy) has been awarded the Maxwell Medal for distinguished research in theoretical, mathematical or computational physics, "for his work on the characterisation and exploitation of entanglement in quantum systems, in particular for his work on the propagation of information in spin chains";
Professor Russell Cowburn (Department of Physics, Imperial College) has been awarded the Paterson Medal for distinguished research in applied physics, "for outstanding contributions to nano-magnetism and nano-photonics, and his internationally recognised success in commercially exploiting his research through spin-out companies";
Professor David Delpy (UCL Medical Physics, Chief Executive of EPSRC) has been awarded the Franklin Medal for distinguished research in physics applied to the life sciences, "for his pioneering development of a range of novel techniques and instruments to monitor the health of patients in intensive-care units and to image tissue physiology and metabolism";
Professor Helen Fielding (UCL Chemistry) has been awarded the Moseley Medal for distinguished research in experimental physics, "for her unique work on the coherent control of electronic and molecular dynamics using ultra-fast lasers";
Professor Ed Hinds (Department of Physics, Imperial College) has been awarded the Thomson Medal for distinguished research in atomic or molecular physics, "for his important and elegant experimental investigations in the fields of atomic physics and quantum optics";
Mrs Doreen Stoneham (Director and Company Secretary at Oxford Authentication Ltd) has been awarded the Gabor Medal for distinguished work in the application of physics in an industrial, commercial or business context , "for her successful establishment of a world-leading company that authenticates ceramics for the art world".
Winners in 2006 included Professor Mike Gillan who was awarded the Dirac Medal and Professor Marshall Stoneham, awarded the Guthrie Medal, both from LCN and Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL. For more information see the IoP's archived press release.
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UCL is the fourth-ranked UK university in the 2006 league table of the top 500 world universities produced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UCL alumni include Mahatma Gandhi (Laws 1889, Indian political and spiritual leader); Jonathan Dimbleby (Philosophy 1969, writer and television presenter); Junichiro Koizumi (Economics 1969, Prime Minister of Japan); Lord Woolf (Laws 1954, Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales); Alexander Graham Bell (Phonetics 1860s, inventor of the telephone), and members of the band Coldplay.
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