The Dirac Medal is the name of four awards in the field of theoretical physics, computational chemistry, and mathematics, awarded by different organizations, named in honour of Professor Paul Dirac, one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20th century.
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The first-established prize is the Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, awarded by the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, jointly with the Australian Institute of Physics on the occasion of the public Dirac Lecture.[1] The Lecture and the Medal commemorate the visit to the university in 1975 of Professor Dirac, who gave five lectures there. The 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 includes a silver medal and honorarium. It was first awarded in 1979.
- 1979 Hannes Alfven
- 1981 John Clive Ward
- 1983 Nicolaas Bloembergen
- 1985 David Pines
- 1987 Robert Hofstadter
- 1988 Klaus von Klitzing
- 1989 Carlo Rubbia & Kenneth G. Wilson
- 1990 Norman F. Ramsey
- 1991 Herbert A. Hauptman
- 1992 Wolfgang Paul
- 1996 Edwin Salpeter
- 1998 David Deutsch
- 2002 Heinrich Hora
- 2003 Edward Shuryak [de]
- 2004 Iosif Khriplovich
- 2006 Sir Roger Penrose
- 2007 John Iliopoulos
- 2008 Harald Fritzsch
- 2010 E. C. George Sudarshan
- 2011 Lord May of Oxford
- 2012 Brian Schmidt
- 2013 Sir Michael Pepper
- 2014 Serge Haroche[2]
- 2015 Subir Sachdev[1]
- 2016 Kenneth Freeman
- 2017 Boris Altshuler
- 2019 Lene Hau
- 2020 Susan Scott
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