Medals and prizes

Each year the School awards the following prizes to its undergraduates:

• Class Medal: At each honours level a class medal is awarded annually to each of the highest graded students of Physics, Theoretical Physics, and Astrophysics, (provided that at least one student in each category obtains a first class level credit weighted mean).
• William David Brodie Prize: Awarded to the three students (in any of the School's degree programmes) in the Junior Honours class with the most outstanding results.
• Neil Arnott Prize: Awarded to the three students with the most outstanding results in the Senior Honours class in Physics, including Theoretical Physics.
• Scott Lang Prize: Awarded to the Senior Honours student in Astrophysics with the most outstanding results.
• Brewster Prize: Awarded to the student with the most outstanding results in the final year of any one of the Integrated Masters degrees (MPhys or MSci), in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

In all cases awards are based on the highest credit-weighted mean grade from the School's modules achieved during the year. If there is more than one "best student" in a category, then the medal or prize is shared.

Since joint honours students are presumed to be eligible also for prizes offered in the other subject, the policy of the School is that the monetary amount of a prize awarded to any student in this category is halved. In all cases for students to be eligible for a prize or medal from this School they must be taking at least 45 AS and/or PH credits that session.