Additional Awards

Honorary Fellows

Byelaw 4 of the Charter and Bylaws defines Honorary Fellows as:

Distinguished persons intimately connected with physics or a science allied there to whom the Institute especially desires to honour for exceptionally important services in connection therewith and distinguished person, whom the Institute may desire to honour for service to the Institute or whose association therewith is of benefit to the Institute, shall be eligible to become Honorary Fellows of the Institute. Election to Honorary Fellowship can be made only by resolution of the Council.  Honorary Fellows of the Institute shall not be required to pay any entrance fee, annual or other membership subscription.  The total number of Honorary Fellows for the time being shall not exceed one hundred.

Honorary Fellowships awarded in 2008

Professor Sir Richard Friend
University of Cambridge
For his pioneering research into organic polymer semiconductors and the successful exploitation of new technology through the companies Cambridge Display Technology and Plastic Logic.

Dr Herman Hauser
Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd
For his outstanding contribution to knowledge transfer through the successful development and financing of companies in the information technology sector.

Professor Yang Guo-Zhen
For his important contribution to optics and surface science, and for his active role in promoting links between the Chinese and UK physics communities.

A full list of Honorary Fellows

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