IUPAP – C2 AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT – 2026 Nominations
IUPAP C2 is calling for nominations for its two Awards for the year 2026.
Please follow additional guidance provided in the Nomination Form. The due date for nominations is March 31, 2026. Inquiries may be made to C2 Secretary Richard Brown by e-mail at [email protected], and copying the C2 Vice-Chair Eric Shirley at [email protected].
1 – IUPAP-C2 Early Career Scientist Prize
(The last in 2014 – Dr. Samuel Lara-Avila, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; and Dr. Stefan Ulmer, RIKEN/CERN)
The Commission on Symbols, Units, Nomenclature, Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants (C2) desires to distinguish and recognize the outstanding contributions and the merit of early career physicists within the areas of physics within the remit of this commission. Nominees should have a maximum of 8 years of research experience following their PhD (as measured on 31 December 2025) and should be the principal performer of original work of outstanding scientific quality in the domain of Symbols, Units, Nomenclature, Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants.
2 – IUPAP C2 Commission Award – SUNAMCO Senior Scientist Medal
(The last, in 2022 – Richard J. C. Brown, National Physical Laboratory, UK)
The awards of SUNAMCO Medals are based on nominations made to the Commission – from either within or outside IUPAP Commission C2. These awards intend to recognize senior persons or laboratories for outstanding contributions in physics within the ambit of the Commission C2.
Additional considerations
- A given award may only be received one time by any individual.
- Self-nomination will not be considered.
- The award presentation, if presented in person (which is desirable), such as at brief ceremony during a scientific conference, will be made on a future date to be determined.
- Considering the importance of ensuring the increasing diversity in physics and in the pool of candidates for awards in terms of gender and other underrepresented groups and geographical regions, as well as equal opportunities for all the scientific community, we would like to please ask nominators to provide, whenever possible, the following information:
- age, gender, and country of the nominee.
Nominating process
- Please see further instructions in the obligatory nomination form.
Each award will include an IUPAP medal and a certificate, and the ECSP award will include a cash prize. In addition, a short biography of the Awardee will be published on the IUPAP website. The winner will also be invited to present a paper at a future event.
Professor Richard J. C. Brown
Professor Richard J. C. Brown is an NPL Senior Fellow and NPL’s Head of Metrology with responsibility for overseeing the accuracy of the UK’s national standards of measurement, ensuring their comparability internationally, and enabling their dissemination through the UK’s measurement quality infrastructure. He joined NPL in 2000 following the award of his BSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College, London. Richard has made numerous contributions to the International System of Units (SI) over many years. This has culminated most recently in his work on the revision of the SI in 2019, his international leadership in the areas of dimensionless quantities and the unit one, his seminal work to integrate chemical physics and the unit mole into the SI, his thought leadership concerning the value of metrology during the COVID-19 pandemic and most recently his proposal to expand the range of SI prefixes, which was approved by the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures in November 2022 who adopted ronna (R) for 1027, quetta (Q) for 1030, ronto (r) for 10−27, quecto (q) for 10−30.
