Appleton Medal and Prize
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The Appleton medal and prize is awarded for distinguished research in environmental, earth or atmospheric physics. It was originally called the "Chree medal and prize" after Dr. Charles Chree
but was renamed in 2008 by the Institute of Physics
. It is currently awarded in even-dated years.
Charles Chree
Charles Chree was a British physicist.He was born in Lintrathen, Forfarshire, Scotland and educated at the Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeen where he graduated MA in 1879 and the University of Cambridge...
but was renamed in 2008 by the Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
. It is currently awarded in even-dated years.
Recipients of the Chree medal and prize
- 2007 Michele Dougherty
- 2006 David Gubbins
- 2005 Barbara A Maher
- 2004 Joanna Dorothy Haigh
- 2003 Michael Lockwood
- 2002 Peter Thomas Woods
- 2001 Joseph Charles Farman, Brian Gerard Gardiner and Jonathan David ShanklinJon ShanklinJonathan Shanklin is a meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey. Together with Joe Farman and Brian G. Gardiner he discovered the "Ozone Hole"...
- 1999 John Edward Harries and Ronald Woodman
- 1997 John Michael David CoeyMichael Coey-En Breve:John Michael David Coey , born in Belfast, February 1945, Northern Ireland is an experimental physicist working in the fields of magnetism and spintronics. He is Ireland's most highly cited scientist, having an h-index of 53...
- 1995 Tudor Bowden Jones
- 1993 Alan Hugh CookAlan CookSir Alan Hugh Cook FRS was a British physicist who specialised in geophysics, astrophysics and particularly precision measurement.-Early life and family:Cook was born in Felsted, Essex in 1922...
- 1991 Lance Thomas
- 1989 John Nye
- 1987 Brian John Hoskins
- 1985 Adrian Edmund Gill
- 1983 William John Granville Beynon
- 1981 Keith Anthony Browning
- 1979 John Theodore Houghton
- 1977 Drummond Hoyle MatthewsDrummond MatthewsDrummond Hoyle Matthews FRS was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics...
and Frederick John Vine - 1975 Raymond HideRaymond HideRaymond Hide CBE FRS is a British physicist, who was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London.-Life:...
- 1973 David Robert BatesDavid Bates (physicist)Sir David Robert Bates, FRS was an Irish mathematician and physicist.Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, he moved to Belfast with his family in 1925, attending the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He enrolled with the Queen's University of Belfast in 1934...
- 1971 Desmond George King-HeleDesmond King-HeleDesmond George King-Hele is a British physicist and author. In 1957, together with Doreen Gilmour, and as part of the Guided Weapons department of Royal Aircraft Establishment, he wrote a report proposing the use of the Blue Streak missile and Black Knight as a satellite launcher...
- 1969 Stanley Keith Runcorn
- 1967 John Herbert ChapmanJohn Herbert ChapmanJohn Herbert Chapman from London, Ontario, son of Lt. Col. Lloyd Chapman and Kathleen Chapman, was a Canadian space researcher. Chapman started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere. He later received a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in physics at McGill University...
- 1965 Basil John MasonBasil John MasonSir John Mason, CB, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRFPS, FRS is an expert on cloud physics and former Director of the UK Meteorological Office.His work includes the Mason Equation, giving the growth or evaporation of small water droplets...
- 1963 Maurice Neville Hill
- 1961 Scott Ellsworth ForbushScott ForbushScott Ellsworth Forbush was an American astronomer, physicist and geophysicist who is recognized as having laid the observational foundations for many of the central features of solar-interplanetary-terrestrial physics, which at the time was an under-developed field of study...
- 1959 Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe
- 1957 Edward C BullardEdward BullardSir Edward "Teddy" Crisp Bullard FRS was a geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics...
- 1955 David Forbes MartynDavid Forbes MartynDavid Forbes Martyn was a Scottish-born Australian physicist and radiographer.Martyn was born in Cambuslang, Scotland , the son of a local doctor. He was educated at Alan Glen's School then the Royal College of Science at Imperial College London....
- 1953 Julius BartelsJulius BartelsJulius Bartels was a German geophysicist and statistician who made notable contributions to the physics of the Sun and Moon; to geomagnetism and meteorology; and to the physics of the ionosphere. He also made fundamental contributions to statistical methods for geophysics...
- 1951 George C Simpson
- 1949 Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson
- 1947 Edward V AppletonEdward Victor AppletonSir Edward Victor Appleton, GBE, KCB, FRS was an English physicist.-Biography:Appleton was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and educated at Hanson Grammar School. At the age of 18 he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge...
- 1945 John Adam FlemingJohn Adam FlemingJohn Adam Fleming, was an American physicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity....
- 1943 Basil Ferdinand Jamieson SchonlandBasil SchonlandSir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland CBE FRS was the first president of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.-Birth and Parentage:...
- 1941 Sydney Chapman