2009
Professor Gillian Gehring
University of Sheffield
For her seminal contributions to magnetism.
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2008
Professor Gabriel Aeppli
London Centre for Nanotechnology and University College London
For his pioneering and highly influential work on the magnetic properties of novel materials using neutron scattering.
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2007
Andre Geim
For his discovery of a new class of materials – free-standing two-dimensional crystals – in particular graphene.
2006
Peter Weightman
University of Liverpool
For his work on the electronic structure of materials using a variety of laboratory and synchrotron techniques and for his development of Auger spectroscopy and reflection anisotropy spectroscopy.
2005
Athene M Donald
University of Cambridge
For the development of powerful new methods for the study of the properties of soft condensed matter; in particular colloids, polymers and biological materials.
2004
Ted Forgan
2003
D Phillip Woodruff
2002
Maurice Sidney Skolnick
2001
Manuel Cardona
2000
Michael Pepper
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