Faraday Medal
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This article is about the medal awarded by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and previously by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. For other uses, see Faraday Prize (disambiguation).
The Faraday Medal is a medal awarded by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology)
The bronze medal is awarded (either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology) without restriction as regards nationality, country of residence or membership of the Institution. It is awarded not more frequently than once a year. The award was established in 1922 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and is named for Michael Faraday.
[edit] Recipients
- 1922 Oliver Heaviside FRS
- 1923 The Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS
- 1924 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti DSc FRS
- 1925 Sir J. J. Thomson OM MA FRS
- 1926 Colonel R E B Crompton CB FRS
- 1927 Elihu Thomson DSc
- 1928 Professor Sir Ambrose Fleming MA DSc FRS
- 1929 Guido Semenza
- 1930 The Rt Hon Lord Rutherford of Nelson OM FRS
- 1931 Charles Hesterman Merz DSc
- 1932 Sir Oliver Lodge DSc FRS
- 1933 no award
- 1934 Sir Frank Edward Smith GCB GBM DSc FRS
- 1935 Frank B. Jewett PhD
- 1936 Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE MA DSc FRS
- 1937 Professor André Blondel
- 1938 Sir John F C Snell GBE
- 1939 William David Coolidge BS PhD
- 1940 Alexander Russell MA DSc LLD FRS
- 1941 Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming CBE DEng LLD
- 1942 Dr Pyotr Kapitsa FRS
- 1943 Sir Archibald Page
- 1944 Irving Langmuir LLD DSc PhD
- 1945 Sir Clifford Copland Paterson OBE DSc FRS
- 1946 Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB MA DSc LLD FRS
- 1947 Sir Leonard Pearce CBE DSc
- 1948 Professor Mark Oliphant FRS
- 1949 C S Franklin CBE
- 1950 Sir James Chadwick MSc PhD FRS
- 1951 Thomas Eckersley BA BSc PhD FRS
- 1952 Professor Ernest Lawrence AM PhD
- 1953 Sir A Stanley Angwin KBE DSO MC TD BSc(Eng)
- 1954 Sir I Shoenberg
- 1955 Sir John Cockcroft KCB CBE MA DSc MScTech PhD FRS
- 1956 Professor G W O Howe DSc LLD
- 1957 Dr Waldemar Borgquist
- 1958 Sir Gordon Radley KCB CBE PhD(Eng)
- 1959 Luigi Emmannueli
- 1960 Sir George Paget Thomson DSc FRS
- 1961 Julius Adams Stratton ScD LLD
- 1962 Sir Basil Schonland CBE MA PhD FRS
- 1963 P M J Ailleret
- 1964 Joseph Ronald Mortlock BSc(Eng) PhD
- 1965 Vladimir Zworykin EE PhD DSc
- 1966 J A Ratcliffe CB CBE MA FRS
- 1967 Professor H E M Barlow PhD BSc(Eng) FRS
- 1968 Leslie Herbert Bedford CBE MA BSc(Eng)
- 1969 Dr Phillip Sporn EE
- 1970 Professor C W Oatley OBE MA MSc FRS
- 1971 Professor Sir Martin Ryle MA FRS
- 1972 Professor F C Williams CBE DSc DPhil FRS
- 1973 Professor Sir Nevill Mott MA FRS
- 1974 G Millington MA BSc
- 1975 Professor John Millar Meek CBE DEng FInstP
- 1976 T O Paine AB MS PhD
- 1977 Dr John Bertram Adams CMG MA FRS
- 1978 Dr E Friedlander
- 1979 Dr Robert Noyce
- 1980 Professor Eric Ash PhD DSc
- 1981 Sir Maurice Wilkes FRS FREng
- 1982 Professor Brian David Josephson
- 1983 Professor W A Gambling DSc PhD FEng
- 1984 Professor Alexander Lamb Cullen OBE DSc(Eng) FRS FEng
- 1985 Professor C A R Hoare MA HonDSc
- 1986 Professor E D R Shearman BSc(Eng) FEng
- 1987 Professor Sir David (DEN) Davies CBE DSc PhD FEng
- 1988 Professor Cyril Hilsum BSc PhD FRS FEng
- 1989 Professor Charles K. Kao BSc BSc(Eng) PhD
- 1990 Professor Peter Lawrenson MSc DSc FRS FEng
- 1991 Dr Alan Rudge OBE FEng
- 1992 Dr L Solymar MA
- 1993 Professor Alistair G J MacFarlane CBE FRS FEng
- 1994 Dr John Parnaby CBE BSc DTech FEng
- 1995 Professor David Rhodes OBE PhD DSc DEng FRS FEng
- 1996 Mr S C Miller CBE BSc FEng
- 1997 Professor John Midwinter OBE BSc FRS FEng
- 1998 Professor Roger Needham FRS FEng
- 1999 Professor P A McKeown OBE FREng DSc
- 2000 Professor Michael Brady FREng MSc PhD FRS
- 2001 Professor Chris Harris BSc MA PhD FREng CEng FIEE
- 2002 Sir Robin Saxby BEng
- 2003 Professor Richard Friend FRS
- 2004 Professor Peter Grant FREng FRSE BSc PhD
- 2005 Mr Azim Premji
- 2006 Professor John McCanny CBE FREng FRS FIAE
- 2007 Professor Steve Furber
- 2008 Professor Josef Kittler FREng
- 2009 Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FR
- 2010 Professor Donal Bradley CBE
- 2011 Donald Knuth
