IOP announces 2009 award winners
Dr Rachel McKendry, chosen for the successful commercial development of sensors for rapid disease diagnostics and antibiotic drug screening applications; Professor Sir Richard Friend and Dr David Fyfe, for establishing and managing their UK company Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) to become the world leader in light-emitting polymer technology; and Professor Donal D C Bradley, who demonstrated the widespread application potential of polymers - are just some of this year's winners who highlight physics' important contribution to the UK economy.
Dr Robert Kirby Harris, chief executive of the IOP, said "The IOP awards are a wonderful way of honouring the achievements of physicists across a range of fields as well as underlining the important role physics has in adding considerable value to the UK – both directly and also in underpinning engineering and other sciences".
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