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Australian Institute of Physics#Dirac Medal

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The Australian Institute of Physics was established in 1963, when it replaced the Australian Branch of the British Institute of Physics based in London.[http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/webster.pdf A History of the Physics Department of the University of Queensland Emeritus Professor H C Webster, 31 March 1977, Accessed 6 February 2012] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319095137/http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/webster.pdf |date=19 March 2012 }} The purpose of the institute is to promote the role of physics in research, education, industry and the community.[https://www.aip.org.au/About-The-AIP Australian Institute of Physics] The AIP publishes Australian Physics (ISSN 1036-3831) since 1963. Every two years, the Institute organises a national congress, the latest being held in December 2024 in Melbourne.{{Cite web |url=https://aipcongress2024.com/|title=The 25th Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics}}

Organisation

The institute has branches in each of the six Australian states, and topical groups in the following areas:

  • Atomic Physics and Molecular Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Physics{{Cite web |url=http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fcondensed-matter-materials-group-cmm |title=Condensed Matter & Materials Group (CMM) | Australian Institute of Physics |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208043817/http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fcondensed-matter-materials-group-cmm |archive-date=2014-12-08 |url-status=dead }}
  • Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics
  • Physics Education{{Cite web |url=http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fphysics-education-group-peg |title=Physics Education Group (PEG) | Australian Institute of Physics |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208052459/http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fphysics-education-group-peg |archive-date=2014-12-08 |url-status=dead }}
  • Quantum Information, Concepts and Quantum Coherence{{Cite web |url=http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fquantum-information-concepts-and-coherence-quicc |title=Quantum Information, Concepts and Coherence (QUICC) | Australian Institute of Physics |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208060756/http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fquantum-information-concepts-and-coherence-quicc |archive-date=2014-12-08 |url-status=dead }}
  • Solar Physics, Terrestrial Physics and Space Physics{{Cite web |url=http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fsolar-terrestrial-and-space-physics-stspgroup |title=Solar Terrestrial and Space Physics (STSP)Group | Australian Institute of Physics |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208052728/http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fsolar-terrestrial-and-space-physics-stspgroup |archive-date=2014-12-08 |url-status=dead }}
  • Theoretical Physics
  • Women in Physics{{Cite web |url=http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fwomen-physics-wip |title=Women in Physics (WIP) | Australian Institute of Physics |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208053511/http://www.aip.org.au/info/?q=content%2Fwomen-physics-wip |archive-date=2014-12-08 |url-status=dead }}

Presidents

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  • 1962–65 Leonard Huxley{{cite web |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000513b.htm |title=Huxley, Leonard George Holden -Biographical entry |author=Rosanne Walker |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science |access-date=22 May 2012}}
  • 1966–67 F. Lehany
  • 1968 Alan Walsh{{cite web |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000860b.htm |title=Walsh, Alan – Biographical entry |author=McCarthy, G.J. |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science |access-date=22 May 2012}}
  • 1969–70 A. Harper
  • 1971–72 Robert Street{{cite web |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000804b.htm |title=Street, Robert – Biographical entry

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  • 1973–74 F. J. Jacka
  • 1975–76 J. Campbell
  • 1977–78 Terry Sabine
  • 1979–80 Herbert Bolton{{cite web |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000244b.htm |title=Bolton, Herbert Cairns – Biographical entry |author=McCarthy, G.J. |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science |access-date=22 May 2012}}
  • 1981–82 Neville Fletcher
  • 1983–84 G. V. H. Wilson
  • 1985–86 T. Fred Smith
  • 1987–88 John Collins
  • 1989–90 Anthony Klein{{cite web |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000547b.htm |title=Klein, Anthony George (Tony) – Biographical entry |author=McCarthy, G.J. |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science |access-date=22 May 2012}}
  • 1991–92 Anthony Thomas

{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/theory/staff/thomas/thomasbio_1102.html

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  • 1993–94 Robert Crompton{{cite web |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003039b.htm |title=Crompton, Robert Woodhouse – Biographical entry |author=Rosanne Walker |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science |access-date=22 May 2012}}
  • 1995–96 Ron McDonald
  • 1997–98 Jaan Oitmaa
  • 1999–2000 John Pilbrow
  • 2001–02 John O'Connor
  • 2003–04 Rob Elliman
  • 2005–06 David Jamieson
  • 2007–08 Cathy Foley{{cite web|url=http://www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/Materials-Science--Engineering/PhysicsPresident.aspx |title=Physics President sets precedent |access-date=22 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518235537/http://www.csiro.au/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/Materials-Science--Engineering/PhysicsPresident.aspx |archive-date=18 May 2012 }}
  • 2009–10 Brian James{{cite web |url=http://www.aip.org.au/news/203 |title=Physics around the country – April 2009 |publisher=Australian Institute of Physics |access-date=25 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317234151/http://www.aip.org.au/news/203 |archive-date=2012-03-17 |url-status=dead }}
  • 2011–12 Marc Duldig
  • 2013–14 Robert Robinson
  • 2015–16 Warrick Couch
  • 2017–18 Andrew Peele
  • 2019–20 Jodie Bradby
  • 2021–22 Sven Rogge
  • 2022–23 Nicole Bell

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Awards

= Bragg Gold Medal =

The Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics has been awarded since 1992 for the best PhD thesis by a student from an Australian University and to commemorate Sir Lawrence Bragg (in front on the medal) and his father Sir William Henry Bragg who both played a significant part in physics education in Australia. Winners so far are:{{cite web|title=The Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics|url=https://aip.org.au/BRAGG-MEDAL|access-date=14 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225092355/https://aip.org.au/Bragg-Medal|archive-date=2024-12-25|url-status=dead}}

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=== Dirac Medal ===

{{For|other prizes named after Paul Dirac|Dirac Medal (disambiguation){{!}}Dirac Medal}}

The Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics is awarded by the University of New South Wales in Sydney, jointly with the Australian Institute of Physics on the occasion of the public Dirac Lecture. The Lecture and the Medal commemorate the visit to the university in 1975 of Professor Dirac, who gave five lectures there. These lectures were subsequently published as a book: Directions of Physics (Wiley, 1978 – H. Hora and J. Shepanski, eds.). Professor Dirac donated the royalties from this book to the University for the establishment of the Dirac Lecture series. The prize, first awarded in 1979, includes a silver medal and honorarium. The recipients of the prize are:{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408134536/http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/phys_news/Dirac2011.htm|title=The Dirac Medal and Lecture (2011) (unsw.edu.au)}}{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322130304/http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/alumni/dirac-lecture-series |title=The Dirac Medal and Lecture (2015) (unsw.edu.au)}}

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  • 2011: Lord May of Oxford
  • 2012: Brian Schmidt
  • 2013: Sir Michael Pepper
  • 2014: Serge Haroche{{cite web | url = https://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/events/dirac-public-lecture | title = Dirac Public Lecture: Nobel Laureate Professor Serge Haroche | date = 2014-12-09 | access-date = 2017-09-03 | archive-date = 2021-03-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210316052930/https://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/events/dirac-public-lecture | url-status = dead}}
  • 2015: Subir Sachdev{{cite web | url = https://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/news/dirac-medal-awarded-professor-subir-sachdev | title = Dirac Medal awarded to Professor Subir Sachdev | date = 2015-09-08 | access-date = 2017-09-03 | archive-date = 2020-10-21 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201021160810/https://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/news/dirac-medal-awarded-professor-subir-sachdev | url-status = dead}}
  • 2016: Kenneth Freeman{{Cite web |last=z3454192 |date=2016-10-10 |title=Exploring the mysterious missing matter of the cosmos |url=https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/exploring-mysterious-missing-matter-cosmos |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=UNSW Newsroom}}
  • 2017: Boris Altshuler{{cite news|title=2018 DIRAC Lecture - Professor Boris Altshuler|date=6 November 2017|url=https://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/news/2018-dirac-lecture-professor-boris-altshuler|publisher=University of New South Wales|access-date=12 January 2020}}
  • 2019: Lene Hau{{Cite web |title=2019 Dirac Medal and lecture |url=https://www.royalsoc.org.au/blog/2019-dirac-lecture |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=The Royal Society of NSW}}
  • 2020: Susan Scott{{Cite web |title=The 2020 Dirac Medal in Theoretical Physics awarded to Prof. Susan Scott {{!}} The Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics |url=https://cga.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/2020-dirac-medal-theoretical-physics-awarded-prof-susan-scott |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=cga.anu.edu.au |language=en}}

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Honorary Fellows

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Fellows

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References

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External links

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