Let your colleagues and students know what an excellent job they’re doing by nominating them for this year’s AIP awards.

Some awards also allow self-nomination, so please check the individual awards.

You must submit your nominations by 1 May for most of the awards. Click on the links for the awards below for their individual deadlines.

Members of the AIP can nominate colleagues for the:

• Walter Boas Medal – for excellence in original research that makes an important contribution to physics in Australia;
• AIP Award for Outstanding Service to Physics in Australia – in recognition of exceptional contributions to advance the aims of the AIP;
• 2023 Women in Physics (WiP) Lecturer – to recognise and publicise a significant contribution by a woman to advancing the field of physics;
• Harrie Massey Medal and Prize – for outstanding contributions to physics made by an Australian citizen anywhere in the world, or any physicist carrying out work in Australia;
• Alan Walsh Medal – to recognise outstanding accomplishments in applying physics in industry;
• AIP Education Medal – for outstanding contributions to tertiary physics education in Australia; and
• Ruby Payne-Scott Award – for outstanding contributions to physics made by an early career physicist.

We also would like to draw attention to two new awards:

• NEW! Physics Communication Award – to recognise an excellent communicator who makes the public aware of the excitement and importance of physics; and
• NEW! Women in Leadership Medal – to recognise outstanding leadership by a female physicist.

Students may be eligible for the:

• Bragg Gold Medal – for the most outstanding PhD thesis in physics by a student at an Australian university; and
• TH Laby Medal – outstanding Honours or Masters thesis in physics by a student at an Australian university

Please visit the AIP website to access nomination forms and other important information about eligibility and who can nominate.

Last year’s winners include Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic (Curtin University) – 2022 WiP Lectureship; Prof Howard Wiseman (Griffith University) – Walter Boas Medal; and Emeritus Professor Bruce McKellar FAIP and Dr Marc Duldig FAIP – Outstanding Service to Physics Award.

See here for a list of the 2021 winners of our other awards.