Gold1st Place
Antoni Brzeziński
Numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation for finite potential wells
XIV Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stanisława Staszica, Warszawa
Poland
A-Level · BTEC · Key Stage 5
British Young Physicist of the Year – A-Level & BTEC
Honouring the most accomplished sixth form physicists in the United Kingdom.
18.1
Average age of winners
74%
Entries from independent schools overall
Past winners
2026–2008
Present-year names and placements were supplied by the organiser. Historical entries and project titles are illustrative; school and country details may also be illustrative. These details have not been independently verified.
2026
Silver2nd Place
Elinor Vestergaard
Numerical solutions for coupled oscillators
Rysensteen Gymnasium
Denmark
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Tomas Sequeira
Quantum tunnelling through potential barriers
Colégio Valsassina
Portugal
Sample entry · unverified
2025
Gold1st Place
Amelia Hart
Nonlinear dynamics of a driven pendulum
Manchester Grammar School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Theodore Gagnon
Charge motion in crossed fields
Pearson College UWC
Canada
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Imogen Campbell
Modelling stellar radiation spectra
George Heriot’s School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
2024
Gold1st Place
Theo Adeyemi
Field equations for electrostatic lenses
Westminster School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Grace Lin
Photoelectric emission and uncertainty
Cardiff Sixth Form College
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Ottilie Saarinen
Wave packets and dispersion
Tampereen lyseon lukio
Finland
Sample entry · unverified
2023
Gold1st Place
Freya Nakamura
Damping and mechanical resonance
Highgate School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Idris Karim
Heat diffusion in composite solids
Hugo Treffner Gymnasium
Estonia
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Sophie Ellery
Orbital stability in a two-body model
Norwich School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
2022
Gold1st Place
Marcus Bell
Electric potentials in complex geometries
Royal Grammar School, Guildford
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Anaya Deshpande
Interference and optical coherence
UWC Maastricht
Netherlands
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Carys Eirwen
Numerical models of particle trajectories
Atlantic College
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
2021
Gold1st Place
Milena Kowalczyk
Finite-difference solutions of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation
Helsinki Aurora School
Finland
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Arjun Bhasin
Lyapunov exponents in a driven nonlinear pendulum
Northbridge Collegiate School
Canada
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Cecily Harwood
Electromagnetic wave propagation in dispersive dielectrics
Ysgol Dyffryn Seren
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
2020
Gold1st Place
Jasper van Rijn
Poisson equation solutions for electrostatic boundary problems
Colégio Horizonte
Portugal
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Liva Bērziņa
Quantum tunnelling transmission through double barriers
Tallinn Meridian College
Estonia
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Hamza Latif
Monte Carlo modelling of neutron scattering in moderators
Wellington Science College
New Zealand
Sample entry · unverified
2019
Gold1st Place
Anaïs Delorme
Normal-mode analysis of coupled mechanical oscillators
Melbourne Riverbank College
Australia
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Ioan Llywelyn
Fourier analysis of diffraction through multiple apertures
Pune Horizon School
India
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Elena Costa
Numerical integration of charged-particle motion in crossed fields
Cape Meridian College
South Africa
Sample entry · unverified
2018
Gold1st Place
Sebastian Rooke
Blackbody spectra and temperature estimation from spectral fits
Whitfield Grammar School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Priya Menon
Heat-equation solutions for composite conducting rods
Riga Meridian School
Latvia
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Teun van Houten
Relativistic corrections to charged-particle trajectories
Leiden Horizon College
Netherlands
Sample entry · unverified
2017
Gold1st Place
Amira Farhat
Optical cavity resonance and finesse measurements
Vistula Science College
Poland
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Kristaps Liepiņš
Band-gap estimation from semiconductor absorption spectra
Lycée des Sciences de Montclair
France
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Daphne Whitmore
Orbital precession in perturbed gravitational potentials
Helsinki Aurora School
Finland
Sample entry · unverified
2016
Gold1st Place
Nikolai Vesk
RLC resonance bandwidth and quality-factor measurements
Northbridge Collegiate School
Canada
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Eleri Ffion
Fermi–Dirac statistics and electron heat capacity
Ysgol Dyffryn Seren
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Rafael Nunes
Wave-packet dispersion under free-particle evolution
Colégio Horizonte
Portugal
Sample entry · unverified
2015
Gold1st Place
Clementine Dufour
Magnetic field reconstruction from Hall-probe measurements
Tallinn Meridian College
Estonia
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Ibrahim Zaman
Photoelectric stopping potentials and uncertainty propagation
Wellington Science College
New Zealand
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Florence Linton
Finite-element modelling of elastic bending in beams
Melbourne Riverbank College
Australia
Sample entry · unverified
2014
Gold1st Place
Maksym Zieliński
Finite-difference solutions of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation
Pune Horizon School
India
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Sanjana Rao
Lyapunov exponents in a driven nonlinear pendulum
Cape Meridian College
South Africa
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Pieter de Vries
Electromagnetic wave propagation in dispersive dielectrics
Whitfield Grammar School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
2013
Gold1st Place
Evelina Jansone
Poisson equation solutions for electrostatic boundary problems
Riga Meridian School
Latvia
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Laurence Penrose
Quantum tunnelling transmission through double barriers
Leiden Horizon College
Netherlands
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Niamh Cresswell
Monte Carlo modelling of neutron scattering in moderators
Vistula Science College
Poland
Sample entry · unverified
2012
Gold1st Place
Junaid Mirza
Normal-mode analysis of coupled mechanical oscillators
Lycée des Sciences de Montclair
France
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Saskia Verhoeven
Fourier analysis of diffraction through multiple apertures
Helsinki Aurora School
Finland
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Lucia Bianchi
Numerical integration of charged-particle motion in crossed fields
Northbridge Collegiate School
Canada
Sample entry · unverified
2011
Gold1st Place
Alastair Wren
Blackbody spectra and temperature estimation from spectral fits
Ysgol Dyffryn Seren
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Amina Saleh
Heat-equation solutions for composite conducting rods
Colégio Horizonte
Portugal
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Rūta Zariņa
Relativistic corrections to charged-particle trajectories
Tallinn Meridian College
Estonia
Sample entry · unverified
2010
Gold1st Place
Étienne Leroux
Optical cavity resonance and finesse measurements
Wellington Science College
New Zealand
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Ishaan Kulkarni
Band-gap estimation from semiconductor absorption spectra
Melbourne Riverbank College
Australia
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Beatrice Ellwood
Orbital precession in perturbed gravitational potentials
Pune Horizon School
India
Sample entry · unverified
2009
Gold1st Place
Dewi Aneirin
RLC resonance bandwidth and quality-factor measurements
Cape Meridian College
South Africa
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Mirela Ionescu
Fermi–Dirac statistics and electron heat capacity
Whitfield Grammar School
United Kingdom
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Casper van Loon
Wave-packet dispersion under free-particle evolution
Riga Meridian School
Latvia
Sample entry · unverified
2008
Gold1st Place
Safiya Rashid
Magnetic field reconstruction from Hall-probe measurements
Leiden Horizon College
Netherlands
Sample entry · unverified
Silver2nd Place
Henrik Laine
Photoelectric stopping potentials and uncertainty propagation
Vistula Science College
Poland
Sample entry · unverified
Bronze3rd Place
Martha Ellingford
Finite-element modelling of elastic bending in beams
Lycée des Sciences de Montclair
France
Sample entry · unverified