{"id":1792,"date":"2007-10-04T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/04\/institute-of-physics-awards-20\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:23:29","slug":"institute-of-physics-awards-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/04\/institute-of-physics-awards-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute of Physics Awards 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/\">Institute of Physics<\/a> is the UK&#8217;s main organization of physicists (sort of like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/\">American Physical Society<\/a>), and yesterday, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/News\/news_26493.html\">announced their awards for 2007<\/a>. The full list of winners is only available as a Word file, for some odd reason, but it&#8217;s a distinguished group.<\/p>\n<p>The prizes are headed by the brand-new Isaac Newton medal, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/31379\">awarded to Anton Zeilinger<\/a> of the University of Vienna for his pioneering work on the uses of quantum entanglement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>His achievements include the first demonstration of quantum communication based on the entanglement of photons in 1995, the first &#8220;quantum teleportation&#8221; in 1997 and the first quantum cryptography performed with entangled photons in 2000. Earlier this year he led a team that managed to transmit an entangled photon 144 km in free-space, opening the door to satellite-based quantum communication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not too shabby. Congratulations to Prof. Zeilinger.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable award winners (read: names that I recognize):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Professor Sir Michael Atiyah<\/strong> wins the President&#8217;s Medal (&#8220;for meritorious services to physics in general and the Institute in particular&#8221;) for his work in mathematical physics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr Simon Singh<\/strong> wins the Kelvin Medal (&#8220;for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics&#8221;) for his science popularisations (UK spelling as a tribute to him).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Edward Hinds<\/strong> wins the Thomson Medal (&#8220;for distinguished research in atomic or molecular physics&#8221;) for his work on quantum optics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Helen Fielding<\/li>\n<p> wins the Moseley Medal (&#8220;for distinguished research in experimental physics&#8221;) for her work on quantum control with ultrafast lasers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a small selection of the total number of awards, but those are the ones I recognize, and all of them are well deserved. Congratulations to them, and to all the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Physics is the UK&#8217;s main organization of physicists (sort of like the American Physical Society), and yesterday, they announced their awards for 2007. The full list of winners is only available as a Word file, for some odd reason, but it&#8217;s a distinguished group. The prizes are headed by the brand-new Isaac&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/04\/institute-of-physics-awards-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Institute of Physics Awards 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}