Sam Edwards Medal and Prize

The Sam Edwards Medal and Prize is a silver medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics (Britain's and Ireland's main professional body for physicists) for "distinguished contributions in soft matter physics.".^[1] The award, which includes a £1000 prize, was first granted in 2017. It is named after Sam Edwards.

Recipients

Year	Name	Institution	For
2017	Tom McLeish[2]	Durham University	his sustained and outstanding contributions to the fields of molecular rheology, macromolecular biophysics and self-assembly
2019	Wilson Poon[3]	University of Edinburgh	his outstanding contributions to the fundamental study of condensed matter physics, statistical physics and biophysics using model colloidal systems.
2020	Julia Higgins[4]	Imperial College	her pioneering work in neutron scattering applied to the understanding of polymer structure and dynamics.
2021	Julia Yeomans[5]	University of Oxford	developing mathematical models and numerical algorithms to increase our understanding of soft and active matter, statistical physics and biophysics.
2022	Daan Frenkel[6]	University of Cambridge	seminal contributions to the understanding of the kinetics, self-assembly and phase behaviour of soft matter systems, and for developing highly innovative and influential simulation methods.
2023	Ulrich Keyser[7]	University of Cambridge	pioneering the study of transport of structured nucleic-acid molecules through nanopores and the quantification of out-of-equilibrium polymer dynamics at the single-molecule level.

See also

• Institute of Physics
• List of physics awards
• List of awards named after people