2015-16 2nd year article Prize Winners

 Winner

Alexandre BONNET - The Physics of Flying Boats

RUNNERS UP

Hannah BANKS - Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Flora BIGGINS - Free Will in an Age of Uncertainty

Jim BREMNER - Crowd Physics: Safety in Numbers

Luca COCCONI - Falsifiability and the role of hypothesis in modern physics

Laura HISCOTT - Biomimicry in Aeronautical Engineering: Does Nature Have All the Answers

Rahim Jun Yin LEUNG - The Physics of the Violin and the Wolf Tone

Alastair LUTTON - The Horizon-Flatness Problem

Amelia OWENS - MC. Escher: Illustrating the Impossible

James RICE - Dark Energy and Dark Matter – What’s the Matter

Stephen SAVAGE - Stopping Light In Its Tracks

Winners
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Michael DOHERTY - "The Casimir Effect getting something from nothing?"
Salih OSMAN - "Frozen"

Runners Up
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Sara BARTOLUCCI - "The quantum measurement problem"
Stephanie FORD - "There's something about Polaris you didn't know"
Faye HAVELOCK - "Graphene The Wonder Material: Does it Live Up to the Hype?"

Joint Winners

Courtney WILLIAMS - How To Make Mistakes Like A Physicist
Ray OTSUKI - The Range and Mechanics of the Clarinet

Runners Up

Danyal CHOUDHURY - Superconductors – the Next Industrial Revolution?
Georgia BATEMAN - The Coronal Heating Problem
James LEE - Spinning in Control
Nikita KAMRAJ - Mapping the Universe: the Cosmic Microwave Background
Emanuele GALIFFI - Randomness in Nature
Jian SOH - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging — Is it functioning correctly?

Joint winners:

Arianna SORBA - The Long Road To Mars
Dara CANAVAN - Black Holes: A Journey of Discovery

Runners up:

Leon VAN RIESEN-HAUPT - The Physics of Time Keeping
William CARR - Bose-Einstein Condensates
Qifei GU - Shaping Invisibility
Charlotte LOH - Millisecond Pulsars

The winner for 2011/12 is;

Dominic Reiss with his essay, Explaining Phenomena: A Journey From The Abstract To The Experiment And Back Again.

The three runners up, and their essays, are:

Stephen Lennon - Baryogenesis
Stephan Strain - Exoplanets: A Tale of Two Worlds
Alexander van Russelt - Will Graphene Ever Replace Silicon Semiconductors?

The joint winners for the Second Year Essay Prize, 2010/11 academic year, were:

Adam Elwood
Alice Jacques
Alina Solovjova
Cheng Yong Timothy Thio
Jack Jelfs