2nd Year Article Prize Winners
2nd Year Article Prize Winners
2016-17
2016-17 2ND YEAR ARTICLE PRIZE WINNERS
WINNER
Julia WISNIEWSKA - How to Excel at your Axel?
RUNNERS UP
Harry CHITTENDEN - The Cold Dark Matter Spectrum
Julia CHMIELOWSKA - Hurricanes: Can they be Stopped?
Max HENDERSON - The Quantum Arrow of Time
Stephan KOENIGSTORFER - From Uniquity to Ubiquity: The Story of a Snowflake
Gerald LIM - Recipe for a Riff: The Physics behind the Electric Guitar
Avinash MOCHERLA - The Implications of AI on Physics
Gwyneth MATTHEWS - Could you Beat a Robot in a Dance Battle?
Paolo PELUCCHI - Using Computer to Overcome Language Barriers: an Overview of Machine Translation
Gwylim TAYLOR - In Space, No One Can Hear you Scream: Warfare Outside the Earth's Atmosphere
Zhaozhen TONG - Have we Found a Dyson Sphere?
2015-16
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
2014-15
JOINT 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?"
2013-14
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?
2012-13
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
Older
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