Nevill Mott Medal and Prize

The Nevill Mott Medal and Prize is an award presented in selected years by the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom, for distinguished research in condensed matter or materials physics. It was first established in 1997 thanks to a donation from Sir Nevill Mott's family. Sir Nevill Mott was one of the outstanding British condensed matter theorists and won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977. He died in 1996. The award consists of a silver medal and a prize of £1000.

Recipients

The following have received the Nevill Mott Medal and Prize:

Year	Recipients	Institution	Statement	Reference
2000	Michael Pepper	University of Cambridge	For pioneering work on electronic properties of low dimensional systems and mesoscopic physics.
2001	Manuel Cardona	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research	For his broad and important contributions to the detailed understanding of the optical and electronic properties of solids.
2002	Maurice Sidney Skolnick	University of Sheffield	For major contributions to the understanding of excitons, defects, and interaction phenomena in semiconductors.
2003	D. Phillip Woodruff	University of Warwick	For his contributions to the field of surface and interface science.
2004	Ted Forgan	University of Birmingham	For his influential work on the study of vortices in superconductors.
2005	Athene M Donald	University of Cambridge	For the development of powerful new methods for the study of the properties of soft condensed matter; in particular colloids, polymers and biological materials.
2006	Peter Weightman	University of Liverpool	For his work on the electronic structure of materials using a variety of laboratory and synchrotron techniques and for his development of Auger spectroscopy and reflection anisotropy spectroscopy.
2007	Andre Geim	University of Manchester	For his discovery of a new class of materials – free-standing two-dimensional crystals – in particular graphene.
2008	Gabriel Aeppli	University College London	For his pioneering and highly influential work on the magnetic properties of novel materials using neutron scattering.
2009	Gillian Gehring	University of Sheffield	For her seminal contributions to magnetism.
2011	Andrew Peter Mackenzie	University of St Andrews	For his major and original contributions to the physics of strongly correlated electrons in oxides, in particular, their superconductivity and quantum criticality.
2013	Andrew James Shields	Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.	For his research on semiconductor sources and detectors of quantum light states, as well as their application to secure communication on optical fibres, quantum-enhanced sensing and quantum computing.
2015	John Saunders	University of London	For ground-breaking studies at the frontiers of ultra-low temperature physics.
2017	Michael Finnis	Imperial College London	For his original, insightful and courageous work in materials physics, which is recognised worldwide as having consistently opened up large areas of materials physics to rigorous theory and computation.
2018	Laura Herz	University of Oxford	For her ground-breaking research on the fundamental mechanisms underpinning light harvesting, energy conversion and charge conduction in semiconducting materials.
2019	Stephen Hayden	University of Bristol	For pioneering studies of spin and charge excitations in cuprate superconductors and other strongly correlated electron systems.
2020	Laurence Eaves	University of Nottingham	For his outstanding contributions to the investigations of fundamental electronic properties of quantum-confined systems and their applications in devices.
2021	Richard J Warburton	University of Basel	For pioneering work in semiconductor quantum dots and solid-state quantum optics, especially the invention and application of Coulomb blockade devices to create coherent spin-photon interfaces and quantum light sources.
2022	Colin John Lambert	Lancaster University	For visionary theories of quantum-interference-enhanced, molecular-scale electron and phonon transport, which underpin recent designs for molecular-scale memories, sensors, switches and ultra-thin-film thermoelectric materials.
2023	Ji-Seon Kim	Imperial College London	For outstanding contributions to the materials physics of molecular semiconductor devices, including the pioneering integration of spectroscopy and simulation to elucidate the key processes determining device performance.	-
2025	Sam Stranks	University of Cambridge	For outstanding contributions to the understanding and development of emerging semiconductor materials, particularly through multimodal microscopy techniques to connect photophysical, chemical and structural properties on different length and time scales.