Pawsey Medal

The Pawsey Medal is awarded annually by the Australian Academy of Science to recognize outstanding research in the physics by an Australian scientist early in their career (up to 10 years post-PhD).

This medal commemorates the work of the late Joseph L. Pawsey, FAA.

Winners

Source:

Year	Winner	Affiliation	Location	Field	Notes
2025	Claudia Lagos	University of Western Australia		Galaxy formation and evolution	[1]
	Daria Smirnova	Australian National University		Topological photonics
2024	Jiajia Zhou	University of Technology Sydney	Sydney	Nanoparticles	[2]
2023	Yuerui Lu	Australian National University	Canberra	Optoelectronics	[3]
2021	Xiaojing Hao	University of New South Wales	Sydney	Photovoltaics	[4]
2020	Adam Deller	Swinburne University of Technology	Melbourne	Radio Astronomy	[5]
2019	Steven Flammia	University of Sydney	Sydney	Quantum information	[6]
2018	Paul Lasky	Monash University	Melbourne	Gravitational wave astrophysics	[7]
2017	Igor Aharonovich	University of Technology Sydney	Sydney	Quantum Physics, Photonics	[8]
2016	Ilya Shadrivov	Australian National University	Canberra		[9]
2015	Naomi McClure-Griffiths	Australia Telescope National Facility		Radio Astronomy	[10]
2014	Geoffrey John Pryde	Griffith University	Brisbane	Quantum physics	[11]
2013	Christopher Blake	Swinburne University of Technology	Melbourne	Astrophysics	[12]
2012	Tanya Monro	University of Adelaide	Adelaide	Photonics	[13]
2011	Bryan Gaensler	University of Sydney	Sydney	Astrophysics	[14]
2010	Andrew G. White	University of Queensland	Brisbane	Quantum information	[15]
2009	J. Stuart B. Wyithe	University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Astrophysics	[16]
2008	Kostya Ostrikov	University of Sydney	Sydney	Plasma nanoscience	[17]
2007	Ben Eggleton	University of Sydney	Sydney	Optical device physics, photonics	[18]
2006	Mahananda Dasgupta	Australian National University	Canberra	Nuclear physics	[19]
2005	Michelle Simmons	University of New South Wales	Sydney	Semiconductor physics	[20]
2004	Marcela Bilek	University of Sydney	Sydney	Applied Physics	[21]
2003	Howard M. Wiseman	Griffith University	Brisbane	Quantum physics	[22]
2002	Sergey V. Vladimirov	University of Sydney	Sydney	Plasma physics	[23]
2001	Brian P. Schmidt	Australian National University	Canberra	Astrophysics	[24]
2000	Anthony B. Murphy	CSIRO	Sydney	Applied physics
1999	C. Martijn de Sterke	University of Sydney	Sydney	Optics, photonics	[25]
1999	Raymond R. Volkas	University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Particle physics	[26]
1998	Igor Bray	Curtin University of Technology	Perth	Theoretical physics	[27]
1998	Yuri S. Kivshar	Australian National University	Canberra	Nonlinear optics	[28]
1997	Murray T. Batchelor	Australian National University	Canberra	Mathematical physics	[29]
1996	Robert G. Elliman	Australian National University	Canberra	Solid state physics	[30]
1995	Peter A. Robinson	University of Sydney	Sydney	Neurophysics	[31]
1994	Peter T. H. Fisk	CSIRO	Lindfield, NSW	Metrology
1993	Stephen T. Hyde	Australian National University	Canberra	Materials physics	[32]
1992	David J. Hinde	Australian National University	Canberra	Nuclear physics
1991	Andrew E. Stuchbery	Australian National University	Canberra	Nuclear physics	[33]
1990	W. K. Hocking	University of Western Ontario	London, Ontario, Canada	Astronomy
1989	Keith A. Nugent	University of Melbourne	Melbourne	X-ray optics	[34]
1988	Ian N. S. Jackson	Australian National University	Canberra	Geophysics	[35]
1987	John W. V. Storey	University of New South Wales	Sydney	Astrophysics, optics	[36]
1986	Barry Luther-Davies	Australian National University	Canberra	Nonlinear optics	[37]
1985	Richard M. Pashley	Murdoch University	Perth	Water resources	[38]
1984	Peter R. Wood	Australian National University	Canberra	Astronomy	[39]
1983	Michael A. Dopita	Australian National University	Canberra	Astronomy	[40]
1982	James A. Piper	Macquarie University	Sydney	Photonics	[41]
1981	Martin A. Green	University of New South Wales	Sydney	Photovoltaics	[42]
1980	John E. Norris	Australian National University	Canberra	Astronomy	[43]
1979	Gregory J. Clark	CSIRO (formerly)	Sydney	Nuclear Physics
1978	Richard N. Manchester	CSIRO	Epping, NSW	Radioastronomy	[44]
1977	Jacob N. Israelachvili	University of California, Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, California, US	Fluid mechanics	[45]
1976	W. Miller Goss	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	Socorro, New Mexico, US	Radioastronomy
1975	Rodney J. Baxter	Australian National University	Canberra	Statistical mechanics	[46]
1974	Donald B. Melrose	University of Sydney	Sydney	Astrophysics, plasma physics	[47]
1973	Bruce H. J. McKellar	University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Theoretical physics	[48]
1972	Ken C. Freeman	Australian National University	Canberra	Astronomy, astrophysics	[49]
1971	Barry W. Ninham	Australian National University	Canberra	Physical chemistry	[50]
1970	Rodney A. Challinor	Sigma Group	Saint Helier, Jersey
1969	Kenneth G. McCracken	CSIRO	Canberra	Astronomy	[51]
1967	Robert M. May	Oxford University	Oxford, UK	Population biology	[52]

See also

• List of physics awards
• List of Australian Science and Technology Awards