Academic award
Award
The James Joule Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics . It was established in 2008,[ 1] and was named in honour of James Prescott Joule , British physicist and brewer. The award is made for distinguished contributions to applied physics . The medal is silver and is accompanied by a prize of £1000.
Joule's apparatus for measuring the mechanical equivalent of heat
The medal gained international recognition in 2018 when it was awarded to Sri Lankan scientist Ravi Silva [ 2] of University of Surrey ,[ 3] whose work in part led to the establishment of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTec).[ 4]
Recipients
The following persons have received this medal:[ 5]
2023 Jan-Theodoor Janssen , for outstanding contributions to fundamental and practical quantum electrical metrology.[ 6]
2022 Michael Holynski , for distinguished contributions to the development of quantum sensors[ 7]
2021 Bajram Zeqiri , for development of acoustic measurement techniques and sensors[ 8]
2020 Richard Bowtell , for new hardware and techniques for biomedical imaging[ 9]
2019 Robert Hadfield , for infrared single photon detection technology[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
2018 Ravi Silva , for carbon nanomaterials [ 2] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16]
2017 Henry Snaith , for metal-halide perovskite solar cells [ 17] [ 18]
2015 Judith Driscoll , for strongly correlated oxides [ 19]
2013 Paul French , for fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy
2011 Donald D Arnone , for terahertz radiation research[ 20]
2009 Jenny Nelson , for theoretical analysis of photovoltaic materials[ 21] [ 22]
2008 David Parker , for positron emission particle tracking[ 23]
See also
References