Rutherford medal recipients
2010
Professor Martin Freer
University of Birmingham
For establishing the existence of nuclear configurations analogous to molecules and demonstrating the existence of nucleon-clustering in key light nuclei, a long-standing issue in the field.
2008
Dr Alan Copestake, Dr Stephen Walley, Mr John Stewart Kiltie, Mr Chris Weston and Mr Brian Griffin
Rolls Royce plc.
For the development of a long-life nuclear reactor core for UK submarines.
2006
Ken Peach
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
For his contributions to high energy physics as leader of key experiments at CERN investigating CP violation, and as director of particle physics at CCLRC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where he has played a key role in reviving accelerator science for particle physics applications in the UK.
2004
David L Wark
2002
Peter John Dornan, David Plane and Wilber Venus
2000
William R Phillips
1998
Anthony Michael Hillas
1996
David Vernon Bugg
1994
James Philip Elliott
1992
Erwin Gabathuler and Terry Sloan
1990
Roger Julian Noel Phillips
1988
John Dowell and Peter I P Kalmus
1986
Alan Astbury
1984
Peter Ware Higgs and Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble
1982
David Maurice Brink
1980
Paul Gayleard Murphy and John James Thresher
1978
Paul Taunton Matthews
1976
Joan Maie Freeman and Roger John Blin-Stoyle
1974
Albert Edward Litherland
1973
James MacDonald Cassels
1972
Aage Bohr
1970
Samuel Devons
1968
Brian Hilton Flowers
1966
Peter Kapitza
Lecturers
1964
Peter H Fowler
1962
Denys Haigh Wilkinson
1960
Cecil Frank Powell
1958
Niels Bohr
1956
Philip I Dee
1954
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
1952
Rudolf Ernst Peierls
1950
Alexander Smith Russell
1948
Ernest Marsden
1946
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
1944
John D Cockcroft
1942
Harold Roper Robinson