On 22 January, Britain’s Institute of Physics is presenting its prizes for 2004 at an awards dinner in London.
The Charles Vernon Boys Medal and Prize are going to Mark Lancaster, lecturer in the department of physics and astronomy at University College London. He is being recognized for his “important contributions to experimental high-energy physics, in particular to the ZEUS experiment (DESY, Hamburg) to investigate the structure of the proton and to the experiment at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (US) to measure the mass of the W-boson.”
Elizabeth Swinbank, Fellow in Science Education at the University of York, is the recipient of the Bragg Medal and Prize. She is being honored for her “innovative contributions to the development of the school physics curriculum, in particular as director of the [university’s] Salters Horners Advanced Physics project.”
The IOP is awarding its Charles Chree Medal and Prize to Joanna...
