The Young Medal and Prize is a prize awarded on odd numbered years by the Institute of Physics in the memory of Thomas Young for distinguished research in the field of optics, including physics outside the visible region.
2009 - Leslie Allen and Miles Padgett
2008 - Patrick Gill
2007 - James Roy Taylor
2005 - Philip Russell
2003 - J Roy Sambles
2001 - Stephen J Pennycook
1999 - Peter Leonard Knight
1997 - Keith Burnett
1995 - John Rarity and Paul Richard Tapster
1993 - John Christopher Dainty
1991 - Parameswaran Hariharan
1989 - Leonard Mandel
1987 - Rodney Loudon
1985 - John David Lawson
1983 - James Morris Burch
1981 - Nicholas John Phillips
1979 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1977 - Robert Clark Jones
1975 - Daniel Joseph Bradley
1973 - Walter Thompson Welford
1971 - Charles Gorrie Wynne
1969 - Giuliano Toraldo di Francia
1967 - Dennis Gabor
1965 - André Maréchal
1963 - Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow