THE BRAGG GOLD MEDAL
The Bragg gold medal was established in 1992 as an initiative of the South Australian Branch, to commemorate Sir Laurence Bragg and his father Sir William Bragg. The medal is awarded annually to the student who is judged to have completed the most outstanding PhD thesis in Physics under the auspices of an Australian university.
Nominations from each University are submitted to the State Branch Committee, which selects a State winner. A national selection panel then selects the national winner. Entries are always of a very high
standard. A lecture on the work will be given at the Congress.
The medal will be presented to the winner at the Congress by the president of the AIP.

THE MASSEY MEDAL
The Massey Medal was proposed at the AIP Congress in 1988 as a gift from the Institute of Physics, UK, to the AIP, to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the AIP as a separate institution in 1963. The medal is presented to the winner at the Congress by the President of the Institute of Physics, UK. It was first awarded in 1990.
Sir Harrie Massey, born near Melbourne in 1908, had a distinguished career in the UK and in 1931, with Edward Bullard, published the first experimental evidence for electron diffraction in gases. He saw the potential of using direct rocket probes of the atmosphere layers and eventually, as Chairman of the British National Committee for Space Research, he guided the entire UK space research program. From 1960-64 he was President of the European Preparatory Commission for Space research. He was knighted in 1960.
The medal is awarded every two years for contributions to physics or its applications made by an Australian physicist working anywhere in the world, or by a non-Australian physicist resident in, and for work carried out in, Australia. A lecture on the work will be given at the Congress.