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The Institute of Physics awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and applications.^[1][2][3] It also offers smaller specific subject-group prizes, such as for PhD thesis submissions.^[4]

• The Max Born Medal and Prize is awarded yearly by the German Physical Society and the Institute of Physics in memory of the German physicist Max Born. The prize recognizes "outstanding contributions to physics" and is awarded to physicists based in Germany and in the UK or Ireland in alternate years.^[5][6]
• The Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize is awarded jointly by the French and British Physical Societies for distinguished work in any aspect of physics that is ongoing or has been carried out within the 10 years preceding the award.^[7]
• The Harrie Massey Medal and Prize is awarded biennially jointly by the Institute of Physics and by The Australian Institute of Physics.^[8]
• The Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize is awarded to physicists in alternating years who work in Italy (even dated years) or the UK or Ireland (odd dated years).^[9][10]

• The Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually for outstanding contributions to the organisation or applications of physics to a physicist in an industrial or commercial context in any sector.^[11]
• The Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize is a prize awarded for distinguished contributions to the application of physics in an industrial, commercial or business context.^[12]
• The Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize is awarded for exceptional early career contributions to the application of physics.^[13]
• The Lee Lucas Award^[14]
• The Business Innovation Award^[15]
• The Business Start-Up Award^[16][17]
• The Apprentice Award
• The Apprenticeship Employer Award

First awarded in 1967, is a gold medal for outstanding and sustained contributions to physics education.^[18] Previous winners are:^[19]

Established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it."^[24]

Established in 2016, is awarded "for exceptional early career contributions to physics education and to widening participation within it."^[25]

Since 1986, celebrates the success of secondary school physics teachers who have raised the profile of physics and science in schools.^{[26][27][28][29]}

To recognise the experience of technicians and their contribution to physics^[30]

Awarded to the top-scoring A-level candidate in Physics in Wales.^[31]

• The Kelvin Medal and Prize is a gold medal instigated in October 1994 in recognition of the importance of promoting public awareness of the place of physics in the world, of its contributions to the quality of life and its advancement of an understanding of the physical world and the place of humanity within it.^[32]
• The Lise Meitner Medal and Prize, established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions to public engagement within physics."^[24]
• The Mary Somerville Medal and Prize^[33]

• The Isaac Newton Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually to any physicist, regardless of subject area, background or nationality, for outstanding contributions to physics. It is accompanied by a prize of £1000, and the recipient is invited to give the Newton lecture.^[34]
• The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded for outstanding and sustained contributions to theoretical physics.^[35]
• The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually for outstanding contributions to experimental physics to a physicist of international reputation in any sector.^[36]
• The Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize, established in 1965, is a gold medal awarded for "outstanding and sustained contributions to leadership in a physics context."^[37]
• The John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize, established in 2008, is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years, for distinguished research in theoretical, mathematical or computational physics.^[38]
• The Sam Edwards Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions in soft matter physics^[39]
• The Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to physics applied to the life sciences^[40]
• The Nevill Mott Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to condensed matter physics^[41][42]
• The David Tabor Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to surface or nanoscale physics.^[43]
• The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize is awarded for plasma or space physics^[44][45]
• The Edward Appleton Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished research in environmental, earth or atmospheric physics. Originally named after Charles Chree, it was established in 1941 and is currently awarded in even-dated years.^[46]
• The Thomas Young Medal and Prize is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years, for distinguished research in the field of optics, including physics outside the visible region.^[47]
• The Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize, established in 2008, is awarded biennially, in even-numbered years, for distinguished research in atomic physics (including quantum optics) or molecular physics.^[48]
• The Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize, awarded biennially in even-numbered years, was instituted in 1966, replacing the Rutherford Memorial Lecture. The award recognises distinguished research in nuclear physics or nuclear technology and is named in honour of Lord Rutherford of Nelson.^[49]
• The James Chadwick Medal and Prize is awarded "for distinguished contributions to particle physics."^[50]
• The Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to astrophysics or cosmology^[51][52]
• The Peter Mansfield Medal and Prize is awarded for medical physics^[53]
• The James Joule Medal and Prize is awarded for applied physics^[54]
• The James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize is awarded annually (previously between 1962 and 1970, every two years) to recognize outstanding early-career contributions to theoretical physics.^[55]
• The Henry Moseley Medal and Prize is awarded for exceptional early career contributions to experimental physics^[56]
• The Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize was originally known as the 'Very Early Career Female Physicist Award'^[57]
• The Simon Memorial Prize

• The President's Medal can be given to both physicists and non-physicists who have provided meritorious services in various fields of endeavour which were of benefit to physics in general and the Institute in particular.^[58]
• The Phillips Award is awarded for distinguished service to the Institute of Physics.^[59]

• Institute of Physics
• List of physics awards

• Official website