Please note that this prize scheme is no longer available.
James Clerk Maxwell began writing scientific papers when he was a teenager. His first paper On the description of oval curves, and those having a plurality of foci was read for him at the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Professor James Forbes, who later became his teacher in Natural Philosophy (physics) when he enrolled in the University of Edinburgh. The encouragement of the young Maxwell by those already in the profession stimulated Maxwell to aspire to pursue a career in Natural Philosophy (physics) that combined research and teaching. Throughout that career Maxwell's scientific papers covering a wide range of topics at the forefront of his subjects were characterised by thoroughness, lucidity and the thoughtful use of clear language.
For his research James Clerk Maxwell won the Adams Prize from Cambridge, the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society of London and the Keith Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. These prizes enhanced his standing among his contemporaries and we hope that they also helped our past winners establish a succesful career in science.
2018 Sebastian Ritterbex
Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan
S. Ritterbex, P. Hirel, P. Carrez
On low temperature glide of dissociated <1 1 0> dislocations in strontium titanate
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 98, Issue 15, Pages 1397-1411
2017 Sebastian Widmann
Universitaet Augsburg, Experimentalphysik 5 Universitaetsstr. 1 D-86159 Augsburg Germany
S. Widmann, E. Ruff, A. Günther, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, P. Lunkenheimer, V. Tsurkan, S. Bordács, I. Kézsmárki & A. Loidl
On the multiferroic skyrmion-host GaV4S8
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 97, Issue 36, Pages 3428-3445
2016 Ryan Sills
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA
R. B. Sills W. Cai
Solute drag on perfect and extended dislocations
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 96 Issue 10 Pages 895-921
2015 Marion Fourmeau
Stiftelsen SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
M. Fourmeau C.D. Marioara T. Børvik A. Benallal O.S.Hopperstad
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 95 Issue28-30 Pages 3278-3304
2014 Alexandros Aperis
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden
P. Kotetes A. Aperis G. Varelogiannis
Magnetic-field-induced chiral hidden order in URu2Si2
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 94 Issue 32-33 Pages 3789-3802
2013 Niaz Abdolrahim
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Niaz Abdolrahim, David F. Bahr, Benjamin Revard, Cassandra Reilly, Jia Ye, T. John Balk Hussein M. Zbib
The mechanical response of core-shell structures for nanoporous metallic materials
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 93 Issue 7 Pages 736 - 748
2012 Keith Chan
Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California- San Diego, USA
Keith T. Chan, Jimmy J. Kan, Christopher Doran, Lu Ouyang
Controlled growth behavior of chemical vapor deposited Ni nanostructures
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 92 Issue 17 Pages 2173 - 2186
2011 Srikanth Patala
Northwestern University, USA
S. Patala, C.A. Schuh
Application of operator-scaling anisotropic random fields to binary mixtures
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 91 Issue 10, Pages 1489 - 1508
2010 Julian J. Rimoli
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (formerly of California Institute of Technology)
J. J. Rimoli, M. Ortiz
A three-dimensional multiscale model of intergranular hydrogen-assisted cracking
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 90 Issue 21, Pages 2939 – 2963
2009 Giovanni Bonny
Nuclear Materials Science Institute, SCK-CEN, Belgium
G. Bonny, R. C. Pasianot, L. Malerba
Fitting interatomic potentials consistent with thermodynamics: Fe, Cu, Ni and their alloys
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 89 Issue 34 Pages 3451 – 3464
2008 Ai Leen Koh
Stanford University, USA
A.L. Koh, W. Hu, R.J. Wilson, S.X. Wang, R. Sinclair
Philosophical Magazine, Volume 88 issue 36 Pages 4225-4241
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