Early Career Awards

Recipients of the Maxwell medal and prize

2008    Professor Sougato Bose
           University College London
           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.  Full citation

2007    Nigel Cooper
           Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge    
           For his work on topological excitations in quantum Hall fluids and related systems, in particular rotating
           Bose-Einstein condensates.

2006    Ruth Gregory
           University of Durham
           For her contributions to physics at the interface of general relativity and string theory, in particular for her work on the
           physics of cosmic strings and black holes.

2005    Clifford Victor Johnson
           University of Southern California 
           For his outstanding contribution to string theory, quantum gravity and its interface with strongly coupled field theory;
           in particular for his work on understanding the censorship of singularities, and the thermodynamic properties, of
           quantum spacetime.

2004    Martin Bodo Plenio

2003    Tchavdar Nikolov Todorov

2002    Andrew John Schofield

2001    Benjamin Simons

2000    Andrew Martin Steane

1999    Jeffrey Robert Forshaw

1998    Andrew James Fisher

1997    Michael Wilkinson

1996    Michael Christopher Payne

1995    Artur Konrad Ekert

1994    Stephen Mark Barnett

1993    John Feather Wheater

1992    Neil Turok

1991    Michael E Cates

1990    George Petros Efstathiou

1989    Mark Warner

1988    Robin C Ball

1987    Michael Boris Green

1986    James Binney

1985    Alan John Bray and Allan Peter Young

1984    David William Bullett

1983    Alastair Douglas Bruce

1982    Jonathan Richard Ellis

1981    John Michael Kosterlitz

1980    David James Wallace

1979    Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith

1978    Michael Victor Berry

1977    Eric Jakeman

1976    Stephen William Hawking

1975    Anthony James Leggett

1974    Samuel Frederick Edwards

1973    David James Thouless

1972    Volker Heine

1971    John Bryan Taylor

1970    Richard John Eden

1968    Roger James Elliott and Kenneth William Harry Stevens

1966    Richard Henry Dalitz

1964    Walter Charles Marshall

1962    Abdus Salam

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