Mott Prize
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The Mott medal and prize is awarded 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 was first established in 1997 thanks to a donation of Sir Nevill Mott's family. Sir Nevill Mott was the outstanding British condensed matter theorists and won a Nobel prize in Physics in 1977. He died in 1996. The award is made every year for distinguished research in condensed matter or materials physics and consists of a silver medal and a prize of £1000.

Mott Medallists

  • 2011 Andrew Mackenzie
  • 2009 Gillian Gehring
  • 2008 Gabriel Aeppli
  • 2007 Andre Geim
    Andre Geim
    Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS is a Dutch-Russian-British physicist working at the University of Manchester. Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene...

  • 2006 Peter Weightman
  • 2005 Athene Donald
    Athene Donald
    Dame Athene Margaret Donald, DBE, FRS is a distinguished British physicist. She is Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics, and a member of the ....

  • 2004 Ted Forgan
  • 2003 D Phillip Woodruff
  • 2002 Maurice Sidney Skolnick
  • 2001 Manuel Cardona
  • 2000 Michael Pepper
    Michael Pepper
    Sir Michael Pepper FRS FInstP is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.-Education:Sir Michael went to school at St Marylebone Grammar, then gained a BSc and PhD from the University of Reading and an MA and ScD from Cambridge University.-Career:Sir Michael was a...

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