Rosse Medal

Rosse Medal

The Rosse medal was presented by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, President Institute of Physics to Mark Daly

The 2010 Rosse medal was awarded to:

Mark Daly, University College Cork
'Laser cooling and trapping techniques for cold atoms'

2nd
Nitesh Pandey, NUI Maynooth
'Synthetic aperture digital holographic microscopy'

3rd
Philip Ilten, University College Dublin
'Higgs Boson searches at the LHCb'

Highly Commended
David Connolly, University of Limerick
'The potential of pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES) for integrating fluctuating renewable energy'

Programme and abstracts (PDF, 5 MB)

The Institute of Physics in Ireland awards the Rosse medal each year to the winner of the postgraduate student poster competition. The medal commemorates the 3rd Earl of Rosse (Sir William Parsons KP, FRS) and his contributions to science. 

Background to the Rosse Medal

During the 1840's and starting from virtually first principles, the third Earl of Rosse, Sir William Parsons, designed and implemented the building of the mirrors, tube and mountings for a 72 inch reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world at that time and remained so for three quarters of a century. With this instrument, situated near the middle of Ireland, Lord Rosse was able to study and record details of immensely distant stellar objects and to provide evidence that many of these mysterious nebulae were actually galaxies located far outside our own.

This award was formerly known as the Postgraduate Poster award. Only postgraduates registered at institutions based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland are eligible for this Award.

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