Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal

The Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal is awarded at most every two years by the Australian Academy of Science to a mathematician or physicist for his or her outstanding research accomplishments.^[1] It is named after Thomas Ranken Lyle, an Irish mathematical physicist who became a professor at the University of Melbourne. The award takes the form of a bronze medal^[2] bearing the design of the head of Thomas Lyle, as sculpted by Rayner Hoff.^[3]

The medal was founded by the Australian National Research Council (ANRC) in 1932,^[2][4] and first awarded in 1935.^[1][3] When the Australian Academy of Science was established in 1954, it took over the roles of the ANRC, including administration of the medal.

Recipients

Year	Recipients[1]	Contribution
1935	John Raymond Wilton [3]
1941	George Henry Briggs[5]
1941	Thomas Gerald Room[5][6]
1947	John Conrad Jaeger[7]
1947	David Forbes Martyn[7]	atmospheric tides[8]
1949	Keith Edward Bullen
1951	Thomas MacFarland Cherry
1953	Joseph Lade Pawsey[9]
1957	Bernard Y. Mills
1959	Eric Barnes[10]
1961	H. O. Lancaster
1963	Graeme Reade Anthony Ellis[11]
1963	Patrick A. P. Moran[11]
1966	Stuart Thomas Butler	nuclear reaction theory, plasma physics, and atmospheric tides[12]
1968	George Szekeres	"a wide range of mathematical disciplines" including fractional iteration of functions, numerical integration, graph theory, and relativistic kinematics[13]
1970	Robert Hanbury Brown
1972	Hans Buchdahl
1975	John Paul Wild	radio astronomy of the sun[14]
1977	Kurt Mahler	number theory[15]
1979	Edward J. Hannan	statistics of stationary processes[16]
1981	John R. Philip
1981	Derek W. Robinson
1983	Rodney J. Baxter
1985	Allan Snyder
1987	Donald Melrose
1989	Robert Delbourgo
1989	Peter Gavin Hall
1991	Bruce H.J. McKellar
1993	Neville Horner Fletcher
1993	Erich Weigold
1995	Chris Heyde	martingale limit theory[17]
1997	Anthony W. Thomas	quarks and nucleon structure[18]
1999	Ernie Tuck
2001	Ian Sloan
2003	George Dracoulis	nuclear structure[19]
2005	Anthony J. Guttmann[20]
2007	Yuri Kivshar	nonlinear optics[21]
2009	Victor V. Flambaum	unified field theory, parity violations, fundamental constants[22]
2011	James Stanislaus Williams	[23]
2013	Cheryl Praeger	[24]
2015	Michelle Simmons
2017	Joss Bland-Hawthorn	Establishment of the fields of galactic archaeology and astrophotonics[25]
2019	Chennupati Jagadish	semiconductor physics (semiconductor lasers, infrared and terahertz detectors based on quantum wells, quantum dots and nanowires)
2021	David McClelland	Detecting gravitational waves
2023	Susan Scott	mathematics and physics[26]
	Nick Wormald
2025	George A. Willis	totally disconnected locally compact groups

See also

• List of mathematics awards
• List of physics awards