He won the 1994 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his many contributions to solid-state physics, in particular his ingenious and technically demanding experiment which verified the Aharonov–Bohm effect concerning the behaviour of charged particles in magnetic fields".
The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London 'in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications'.
The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London 'in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications'.