Institute of Physics Edward Appleton Medal and Prize

The Edward Appleton Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics for distinguished research in environmental, earth or atmospheric physics. Originally named after Charles Chree, the British physicist and former President of the Physical Society of London, it was renamed in 2008 to commemorate Edward Victor Appleton, winner of the Nobel prize for proving the existence of the ionosphere.

History
The prize was established in 1941 by Chree's sister, Jessie, after his death, and it was originally awarded biennially. It was first awarded to Sydney Chapman. From 2001 it was awarded annually. After the 2008 renaming the prize was awarded in even-dated years until 2016, then as and when required.

The cash prize part of the award has risen in value since its inception, reported at £150 in 1985 and £300 in 1987, to its present-day value of £1000.

Recipients of the Appleton medal and prize

 * 2021 Philip Stier
 * 2020 Adam Scaife
 * 2019 Cathryn Mitchell
 * 2016 Giles Harrison
 * 2014 David Marshall
 * 2012 Colin O'Dowd
 * 2010 Myles Allen
 * 2008 Ann Wintle

Recipients of the Chree medal and prize
• 2007    Michele Dougherty

• 2006     David Gubbins

• 2005     Barbara Maher

• 2004     Joanna Dorothy Haigh

• 2003     Michael Lockwood

• 2002     Peter Thomas Woods

• 2001     Joseph Charles Farman, Brian Gerard Gardiner and Jonathan David Shanklin

• 1999     John Edward Harries and Ronald Woodman

• 1997     John Michael David Coey

• 1995     Tudor Bowden Jones

• 1993     Alan Hugh Cook

• 1991     Lance Thomas

• 1989     John Nye

• 1987     Brian John Hoskins

• 1985     Adrian Edmund Gill

• 1983     William John Granville Beynon

• 1981     Keith Anthony Browning

• 1979     John Theodore Houghton

• 1977     Drummond Hoyle Matthews and Frederick John Vine

• 1975     Raymond Hide

• 1973     David Robert Bates

• 1971     Desmond George King-Hele

• 1969     Stanley Keith Runcorn

• 1967     John Herbert Chapman

• 1965     Basil John Mason

• 1963     Maurice Neville Hill

• 1961     Scott Ellsworth Forbush

• 1959     Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe

• 1957     Edward C Bullard

• 1955     David Forbes Martyn

• 1953     Julius Bartels

• 1951     George C Simpson

• 1949     Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson

• 1947     Edward V Appleton

• 1945     John Adam Fleming

• 1943     Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland

• 1941     Sydney Chapman