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Huge congratulations to the winners of the IOP Medal and Prize Silver categories! 🎉 🏆 Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize Professor Sarah Bohndiek @cam.ac.uk for pioneering the use of light and sound in early disease detection, with a focus on clinical translation and equitable healthcare outcomes.

🏆 Edward Appleton Medal and Prize Professor Paul Brewer (NPL) for exceptional global leadership in redefining the ozone absorption cross-section, ensuring accurate and comparable measurements worldwide and enabling science-based decisions for improved air quality and environmental protection.

🏆 Joseph Thomson Medal & Prize Prof Myungshik Kim @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for foundational advances that redefined nonclassicality as a physical resource & extended quantum optics from photonic systems to mechanical, plasmonic and gravitational regimes, shaping modern quantum technologies.

🏆 Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize Professor Zsolt Podolyak @uniofsurrey.bsky.social for seminal discoveries in nuclear structure physics which have driven a new understanding and inspirational leadership of international experimental collaborations using radioactive-ion beams.

🏆 Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize Professor Ofer Lahav @ucl.ac.uk for pioneering artificial intelligence for astronomy from the early 1990s, and for scientific leadership in developing and exploiting the now completed Dark Energy Survey, which has delivered major advances in precision cosmology.

🏆 James Joule Medal and Prize Professor Akshay Rao @cam.ac.uk for pioneering contributions to the physics of energy materials, specifically developing ultrafast optical methods to resolve exciton dynamics in photovoltaics and operando ion transport in batteries to drive sustainable innovation.