Institute of Physics Honours Four Faculty Physicists

Four researchers from Imperial's Department of Physics have been honoured in the Institute of Physics' annual awards announced this week – more than at any other UK university

Deputy Faculty Principal, Professor Donal Bradley FRS has been awarded the 2009 Faraday Medal, one of the Institute's three gold medals, for his pioneering work in the field of plastic electronics. This award is the latest in a succession of prestigious prizes given to Professor Bradley - it follows most recently a request to deliver the 2009 Institute of Physics Mott Lecture.

Senior Principal and former Faculty Principal, Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS receives the Glazebrook Medal for his outstanding contributions to physics in the UK and globally, through both his scholarship as a pre-eminent atomic and molecular optics theoretician and as a charismatic and effective leader of research and research organisations.

Professor Jenny Nelson  has been awarded the Joule Medal  for distinguished research in applied physics. Director of Imperial's Doctoral Training Centre in the Science and Application of Plastic Electronic Materials, Professor Nelson's research focuses on a range of novel photovoltaic materials.

Professor Tejinder Virdee has been awarded the Chadwick Medal for distinguished research in particle physics. Professor Virdee is based at CERN, where he is the lead scientist on the CMS detector experiment, one of four particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator.

Read the College press release.