This committee's role is to assess nominations for, and advise Council on, recipients of the medals, awards and prizes relating to the physical sciences.
The committee is sometimes referred to as the 'A-side Awards Committee'. It is responsible for assessing nominations for the Bakerian Lecture, Copley Medal, Clifford Paterson Lecture, Davy Medal, Gabor Medal, Hughes Medal, Kavli Medal and Lecture, Leverhulme Medal, Royal Medal, Rumford Medal and Sylvester Medal.
The members of the committee for 2012 are:
- Professor John Pethica FRS (Chair)
Vice President and Physical Secretary of the Royal Society
- Sir Harshad Bhadeshia FRS
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
- Professor David Clary FRS
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
- Professor Eleanor Dodson FRS
Department of Chemistry, University of York
- Dame Ann Dowling FRS
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
- Dr Peter Goddard CBE FRS
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Professor Judith Howard FRS
Department of Chemistry, University of Durham
- Professor Frances Kirwan FRS
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
- Professor Mike Payne FRS
Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
- Professor Timothy Pedley FRS
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- Professor Peter Raynes FRS
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford