The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics in experimental physics. The award is made "for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.

Historical development

Medalists and lecturers

Faraday medalists

Guthrie medalists

• 2007 Gilbert Lonzarich, "for his experimental and theoretical contributions to condensed matter physics" • 2006 Marshall Stoneham, "for his wide-ranging theoretical work on defects in solids" • 2005 William Frank Vinen, "for his outstanding contributions to superfluids and superconductors" • 2004 Henry Hall • 2003 Michael Springford • 2002 Penelope Jane Brown • 2001 Laurence Eaves • 2000 Lawrence Michael Brown • 1999 George Bacon • 1998 Derek Charles Robinson • 1997 John Evan Baldwin • 1996 Edward Roy Pike • 1995 John Enderby • 1994 Philip George Burke • 1993 Tom Kibble • 1992 Archibald Howie • 1991 Dennis William Sciama • 1990 Roger James Elliott • 1989 Martin J. Rees • 1988 Alan Lidiard • 1987 Samuel Frederick Edwards • 1986 Denys Haigh Wilkinson • 1985 Michael Pepper • 1984 Michael John Seaton • 1983 Jeffrey Goldstone • 1982 Frederick Charles Frank • 1981 John Clive Ward • 1980 Michael Ellis Fisher • 1979 Donald Hill Perkins • 1978 Philip Warren Anderson • 1977 Alan Howard Cottrell • 1976 Abdus Salam • 1975 David Tabor • 1974 Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer • 1973 Hermann Bondi • 1972 Brian David Josephson • 1971 John Ashworth Ratcliffe • 1970 Alfred Brian Pippard • 1969 Cecil Frank Powell • 1968 Rudolf Ernst Peierls • 1967 James Chadwick • 1966 William Cochran

Guthrie lecturers

• 1965 John Bertram Adams • 1964 Martin Ryle • 1963 Leslie Fleetwood Bates • 1962 Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell • 1961 David Shoenberg • 1960 Fred Hoyle • 1959 Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey • 1958 Willis Eugene Lamb • 1957 Harold C Urey • 1956 Francis Simon • 1955 Edmund Clifton Stoner • 1954 Geoffrey Taylor • 1953 Max Born • 1952 W Lawrence Bragg • 1951 Nevill Francis Mott • 1950 George Ingle Finch • 1949 Alexander Oliver Rankine • 1948 George Paget Thomson • 1947 John Desmond Bernal • 1946 Max Jakob • 1945 Arturo Duperier: "The Geophysical Aspect of Cosmic Rays" • 1944 Joel H Hildebrand • 1943 Edward T. Whittaker: "Chance, freewill and necessity, in the scientific conception of the universe" • 1942 Edward V Appleton • 1941 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade • 1940 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett: "Cosmic Rays: Recent Developments" • 1939 (no lecture) • 1938 Archibald Vivian Hill: "The transformations of energy and the mechanical work of muscles" • 1937 Clifford Copland Paterson • 1936 Frederick A. Lindemann: "Physical Ultimates" • 1935 Arthur Holly Compton: "An attempt to analyse Cosmic Rays" • 1934 Charles Vernon Boys: "My recent progress in Gas Calorimetry" • 1933 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn • 1932 Max Planck • 1931 Richard T Glazebrook • 1930 Peter Debye • 1929 Percy Williams Bridgman • 1928 J. J. Thomson • 1927 Sir Ernest Rutherford: "Atomic nuclei and their transformations" • 1926 Charles Fabry • 1925 Wilhelm Wien • 1924 Maurice le Duc de Broglie • 1923 James Hopwood Jeans • 1922 Niels Bohr: "The Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines" • 1921 Albert Abraham Michelson: "Some Recent Applications of Interference Methods" • 1920 Charles Edouarde Guillaume: "The Anomaly of Nickel-Steels" • 1919 (no lecture) • 1918 John Cunningham McLennan: "The Origin of Spectra" • 1917 Paul Langevin • 1916 William Bate Hardy: "Some Problems of Living Matter" • 1915 (no lecture) • 1914 Robert Williams Wood: "Radiation of Gas Molecules Excited by Light"