Theoretical Physics - Physics at Lancaster University

Awards for academic scholarship
Rewarding excellence
Each year we reward our most successful
undergraduates with financial prizes and
certificates for academic achievement.
Awards are given to 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
year students, and our very best students
have won prizes at the end of every year of
their studies. In addition to awards for
excellent overall performance in exams and
coursework, we also offer the Dame
Kathleen Ollerenshaw Prize for the very
best performance in an astronomy project
and the Azzedine Hammiche Prize for
exceptional project work (see page 10 for
more details about projects).
In addition to the prizes awarded by our
department, every year Lancaster University
awards the Chancellor's Medal to its very
best undergraduates. The competition for
this prize is extremely fierce because it is
open to all of the best final-year
undergraduates students across all
departments, and only up to six are
awarded each year. We are very proud of
our physics students who have won this
prestigious prize, and the fact that our
department has produced winners in
consecutive years is testament to the
quality of our physics graduates.
2010 Jon Emery, MPhys Physics,
Astrophysics and Cosmology. Jon will
undertake a PhD in cosmology at the
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation,
University of Portsmouth.
Recent physics winners of
the Chancellor's Medal
2008 Cherry Canovan, MPhys Physics.
Cherry is now a PhD student studying
accelerator physics in the Mathematical
Physics Group, Department of Physics,
Lancaster University.
2009 Laura Nuttall, MPhys Physics,
Astrophysics and Cosmology. Laura is
now a PhD student studying gravitational
waves in the Gravitational Physics Group,
School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff
University.
Physics at Lancaster introduced me to Cosmology, where
I discovered great pleasure in trying to understand the
Universe on the largest scales. Regardless of my future
career, I'm hugely grateful to have learnt the techniques to
understand nature. Developing these techniques, instead
of memorising facts, made the degree much more
interactive and ultimately rewarding.
Jon Emery, MPhys Physics
Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Winner of the 2010 Chancellor's Medal.
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