The Dirac Prize is the name of four prominent awards in the field of theoretical physics, computational chemistry, and mathematics, awarded by different organizations, named in honour of Professor Paul Dirac, one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20th century.
The Dirac Medal and Lecture (University of New South Wales)
The first-established prize is the Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, awarded by the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, jointly with the Australian Institute of Physics on the occasion of the public Dirac Lecture. The Lecture and the Medal commemorate the visit to the university in 1975 of Professor Dirac, who gave five lectures there. The lectures were subsequently published as a book Directions of Physics (Wiley, 1978 – H. Hora and J. Shepanski, eds.). Professor Dirac donated the royalties from this book to the University for the establishment of the Dirac Lecture series. The prize includes a silver medal and honorarium. It was first awarded in 1979.
1979 Hannes Alfven1981 John Clive Ward1983 Nicolaas Bloembergen1985 David Pines1987 Robert Hofstadter1988 Klaus von Klitzing1989 Carlo Rubbia & Kenneth G. Wilson1990 Norman F. Ramsey1991 Herbert A. Hauptman1992 Wolfgang Paul1996 Edwin Salpeter1998 David Deutsch2002 Heinrich Hora2003 Edward Shuryak2004 Iosif Khriplovich2006 Sir Roger Penrose2008 Harald Fritzsch2010 E. C. George Sudarshan2011 Lord May of Oxford2012 Brian Schmidt2013 Sir Michael Pepper2014 Serge Haroche2015 Subir Sachdev2016 Kenneth FreemanThe Dirac Medal of the ICTP is given each year by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist P.A.M. Dirac. The award, given each year on August 8 (Dirac's birthday), was first awarded in 1985.
An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list of nominated candidates. The Committee invites nominations from scientists working in the fields of theoretical physics or mathematics.
The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is not awarded to Nobel Laureates, Fields Medalists, or Wolf Prize winners. However, several Dirac Medallists have subsequently won one of these awards.
The medallists also receive a prize of US$5,000.
1985 Edward Witten, Yakov Zel'dovich1986 Alexander Polyakov, Yoichiro Nambu1987 Bruno Zumino, Bryce DeWitt1988 David J. Gross, Efim S. Fradkin1989 John H. Schwarz, Michael Green1990 Ludwig Faddeev, Sidney R. Coleman1991 Jeffrey Goldstone, Stanley Mandelstam1992 Nikolai Bogoliubov, Yakov G. Sinai1993 Daniel Z. Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Sergio Ferrara1994 Frank Wilczek1995 Michael Berry1996 Martinus J.G. Veltman, Tullio Regge1997 David Olive, Peter Goddard1998 Roman Jackiw, Stephen L. Adler1999 Giorgio Parisi2000 Helen Quinn, Howard Georgi, Jogesh Pati2001 John Hopfield2002 Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Paul Steinhardt2003 Robert Kraichnan, Vladimir E. Zakharov2004 Curtis Callan, James Bjorken2005 Patrick A. Lee, Sir Samuel Frederick Edwards2006 Peter Zoller2007 Jean Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani2008 Joe Polchinski, Juan Maldacena, Cumrun Vafa2009 Roberto Car, Michele Parrinello2010 Nicola Cabibbo, George Sudarshan2011 Édouard Brézin, John Cardy, Alexander Zamolodchikov2012 Duncan Haldane, Charles Kane, Shoucheng Zhang2013 Tom W. B. Kibble, Jim Peebles, Martin John Rees2014 Ashoke Sen, Andrew Strominger, Gabriele Veneziano2015 Alexei Kitaev, Greg Moore, Nicholas Read2016 Nathan Seiberg, Mikhail Shifman, Arkady VainshteinThe Dirac Medal is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics ( Britain's and Ireland's main professional body for physicists) for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics". The award, which includes a silver gilt medal and a £1000 prize, was decided upon by the Institute of Physics in 1985, and first granted in 1987.
1987 Stephen Hawking1988 John Stewart Bell1989 Roger Penrose1990 Michael Berry1991 Rudolf Peierls1992 Anthony Leggett1993 David Thouless1994 Volker Heine1995 Daniel Walls1996 John Pendry1997 Peter Higgs1998 David Deutsch1999 Ian Percival2000 John Cardy2001 Brian Ridley2002 John Hannay2003 Christopher Hull2004 Michael Green2005 John Ellis - King's College London2006 Mike Gillan2007 David Sherrington2008 Bryan Webber2009 Michael Cates2010 James Binney2011 Christopher Isham2012 Graham Garland Ross2013 Stephen M. Barnett2014 Tim Palmer2015 John Barrow2016 Sandu PopescuThe Dirac Medal is awarded annually by The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists "for the outstanding computational chemist in the world under the age of 40". The award was first granted in 1998.
1998 Timothy J. Lee1999 Peter M. W. Gill2000 Jiali Gao2001 Martin Kaupp2002 Jerzy Cioslowski2003 Peter Schreiner2004 Jan Martin2005 Ursula Roethlisberger2006 Lucas Visscher2007 Anna Krylov2008 Kenneth Ruud2009 Jeremy Harvey2010 Daniel Crawford2011 Leticia González2012 Paul Ayers2013 Filipp Furche2014 Denis Jacquemin2015 Edward Valeev