Pawsey Medal

The Pawsey Medal is awarded annually by the Australian Academy of Science to recognize outstanding research in physics by an Australian scientist early in their career.
This medal commemorates the work of the late Joseph L. Pawsey, FAA.

Winners

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