Prix et récompenses scientifiques / Physique

Holweck Medal and Prize

Institute of Physics

Descriptif

This award was instituted in 1945, jointly by the French and British Physical Societies as a memorial to Fernand Holweck, Director of the Curie Laboratory of the Radium Institute in Paris, who was tortured and killed by the Gestapo during the occupation of France 1940-44. The money for the prize was, initially, subscribed by Fellows of The Physical Society and others. A medal, originally in bronze, but since 1972 in gold, is given by the Société Française de Physique. The award is made by the Council of the Institute to a French physicist in odd dated years and by the Council of the French Society to a British physicist in even dated years. The selection is made from a list of three nominees submitted by the other Council.

The award will be made for distinguished work in any aspect of physics that is ongoing or has been carried out within the 10 years preceding the award. In selecting the recipient of the award, the primarily experimental interest of Holweck will be borne in mind. Unitl 1974 it was given in even-dated years to a physicist based in France and presented in Britain or Ireland, and in odd-dated years to a physicist based in England or Ireland and presented in France. In 1974 on the occasion of the joint celebration of the centenaries of the two physical societies, two awards were made and subsequently the award is to be made to a physicist based in France in odd-dated years and to a physicist based in Britain or Ireland in even-dated years. The medal is gold and is accompanied by a prize of €1000, given alternately by the two societies, and a certificate.

Lauréats

Medallist for 2004 : Adrian F G Wyatt