{"id":951827,"date":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951827\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:24:15","slug":"physicist-j-c-seamus-davis-wins-2026-michael-faraday-medal-and-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951827\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicist J.C. S\u00e9amus Davis wins 2026 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/physics.cornell.edu\/jc-seamus-davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.C. S\u00e9amus Davis<\/a>, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor Emeritus in physics in the College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iop.org\/about\/awards\/2026-michael-faraday-medal-and-prize\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize<\/a> by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for \u201coutstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics.\u201d The prize, which includes a gold medal, will be awarded on November 3 at the IOP Awards Dinner in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The award committee cited Davis \u201cfor the discovery and exploration of macroscopic quantum phenomena and states of matter\u201d and noted that he has been a leading figure in this area of research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavis\u2019 strategic approach has been to devise exceptional instruments and techniques that enable human perception and interrogation of the relevant macroscopic quantum physics, leading to the discovery of novel states and phenomena of quantum matter in many distinct materials systems. This approach has led to numerous noteworthy achievements,\u201d the award committee stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invented new instruments to visualize materials at a quantum level. Before we pictured in our minds what we believed quantum matter looked like, but we never knew for sure as we could never see it,\u201d Professor Davis told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/en\/news\/2026\/ucc-professor-seamus-davis-awarded-prestigious-faraday-prize.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCC News<\/a> at University College, Ireland. They learned, he said, that \u201cthe quantum world is more complex than our models suggested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/as.cornell.edu\/news\/physicist-jc-seamus-davis-wins-2026-michael-faraday-medal-and-prize\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story on the College of Arts and Sciences website.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.C. S\u00e9amus Davis, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor Emeritus in physics in the College of Arts and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[64,63,292,128],"class_list":["post-951827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}