Hannes Alfv茅n Medal
Emeritus Professor Eric Priest has been awarded the 2017 Hannes Alfv茅n Medal by the European Geophysical Union 鈥榝or outstanding scientific contributions towards the understanding of plasma processes in the solar system and other cosmical plasma environments鈥�, see .
Eric Priest was Gregory Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics until he retired in 2009, but he continues active research in Solar Magnetohydrodynamics.