The Alan Walsh Medal, an initiative of the NSW Branch of the AIP, recognises significant contributions by a practicing physicist to industry in Australia biennually.
It commemorates the late Sir Alan Walsh, Kt, FAA, FTS, FRS, one of Australia’s most eminent and distinguished scientists, who was the originator and developer of Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AAS) and pioneered its application as a tool in chemical analysis, who was an AIP Honorary Fellow.