It is a long tradition to award the Tait Medal for the best final year student in Mathematical Physics or Mathematics & Physics.  This is the list of our Tait Medalists since 1970:

Peter Guthrie Tait

Statue of James Clerk  Maxwell
on George Street, Edinburgh

Andrea Thamm (Tait Medalist in 2010)
in front of Peter Higgs portrait in the main hall of the James Clark Maxwell Building

2014      Michał Tomaszewski

2013      Sabin Roman

2012      Alastair Heffernan, Vladimir Prochazka, Mara Ungureanu
2011      Donald Slater

2010      Andrea Thamm
2009      Mariusz Szmigiel and David Marsh
2008      Alasdair Thompson and Michael Alexander
2007      Miriam McGilvery
2006      Gustav Sonne
2005      Ian McGhee and Andrew Duncan
2004      Jack Raymond
2003      Julian Sonner
2002      Andrew Angel

2001      Neil Drummond

2000      Michael Ramage

1999      Ian Vernon

1998      Alexander Graves and Andrew Stott

1997      Gordon T. McAndrew

1996      Adrian Hunter

1995      Andrew E Teschendorff

1994      Anne E Currie and Douglas A Smith

1993      David J Miller

1992      Callum M. MacLean

1991      Alastair K. Ewing

1990      Robin F. Steel

1989      James D.E. Grant

1988      Mark J. Filipiak

1987      Alexander G. Watt

1986      James K. McKee

1985      Bruce M. Forrest

1984      Christopher J. Scott

1983      Stephen R. Huggins

1982      Ian David King

1981      John S. Sim

1980      Malcolm J. Duncan and Ian A. Fox

1979      James P. Fraser, Elizabeth J. Gardner and Harald S. Kogon

1978      Peter J. Corvi

1977      Andrew C. Starritt

1976      No prize awarded

1975      T.A. Couper

1974      Graham M. Shore

1973      W. Merton

1972      Corrane Sloan

1971      J.G. Rodger

1970      P. Denton

The Tait Medal awarded to Graham Shore in 1974. Graham Shore went on to do his PhD in DAMTP, Cambridge, and is now Professor of Physics at the University of Swansea.