Mott Prize
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The Mott medal and prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics
. 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.
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. 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 GeimAndre GeimAndre 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 DonaldAthene DonaldDame 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 PepperMichael PepperSir 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...