Professor Alan Martin, Emeritus Professor in Physics at Durham University, has been awarded the Institute of Physics / German Physical Society's International Bilateral Max Born Medal and Prize for 2007. The Max Born Medal is a collaborative prize awarded by both the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society and is among the annual IoP honours list for physicists who have made outstanding contributions to the subject. The award was instituted in 1972 and is intended to commemorate the physicist Max Born, a German/British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, and to cement the relationship between the two institutions. The award is made alternately by the Councils of one of the two societies to a physicist selected from a list of nominees submitted by the other. Physics is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space and time...