Antony Hewish was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.
Michael James Duff FRS,FRSA is a British theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist of supergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.
Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook was an English physicist.
Sir John Bertram Adams was an English accelerator physicist and administrator.
Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble was a British theoretical physicist,senior research investigator at the Blackett Laboratory and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London. His research interests were in quantum field theory,especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He is best known as one of the first to describe the Higgs mechanism,and for his research on topological defects. From the 1950s he was concerned about the nuclear arms race and from 1970 took leading roles in promoting the social responsibility of the scientist.
Francis Edwin Close,is a particle physicist who is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College,Oxford.
George David William Smith FRS,FIMMM,FInstP,FRSC,CEng is a materials scientist with special interest in the study of the microstructure,composition and properties of engineering materials at the atomic level. He invented,together with Alfred Cerezo and Terry Godfrey,the Atom-Probe Tomograph in 1988.
Richard Henry Dalitz,FRS was an Australian physicist known for his work in particle physics.
Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS was a British nuclear physicist.
Sir Peter Leonard Knight is a British physicist,professor of quantum optics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London,and principal of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre. He is a leading academic in the field of quantum optics and is the recipient of several major awards including the Royal Medal from the Royal Society and the Thomas Young Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics. He is a former president of the Institute of Physics and Optica,the first non North American-based person to take the position.
Arthur Bruce McDonald,P.Eng is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston,Ontario from 2006 to 2013. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.
William James Stirling was a physicist who served as the first Provost of Imperial College London. He was appointed to this role in August 2013 and retired in August 2018.
Swapan Chattopadhyay CorrFRSE is an Indian American physicist. Chattopadhyay completed his PhD from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1982.
Sir Clifford Charles Butler FRS was an English physicist,best known for the discovery of the hyperon and meson types of particles. In later life,Butler was involved in educational policy,serving as director of the Nuffield Foundation and vice-chancellor of Loughborough University.
Christopher Michael Hull is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London. Hull is known for his work on string theory,M-theory,and generalized complex structures. Edward Witten drew partially from Hull's work for his development of M-theory.
Sir Roger James Elliott was a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic,semiconductor,and optical properties of condensed matter.
Sir Steven Charles Cowley is a British theoretical physicist and international authority on nuclear fusion and astrophysical plasmas. He has served as director of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) since 1 July 2018. Previously he served as president of Corpus Christi College,Oxford,since October 2016. and head of the EURATOM / CCFE Fusion Association and chief executive officer of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).
The Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics to recognise leadership in the field of physics. It was established in 1966 and named in honour of Sir Richard T. Glazebrook,the first president of the Institute of Physics. It was originally a silver medal with a £250 prize.
Graham Garland Ross was a Scottish theoretical physicist who was the Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.
Jennifer Anne Thomas,,is a British experimental particle physicist and professor at University College London. She has been a pioneer in the development of particle detectors,and the recipient of the Michael Faraday medal and prize in 2018 for her "outstanding investigations into the physics of neutrino oscillations".
