Kelvin Gold Medal
The Kelvin Gold Medal is a British engineering prize.
In the annual report for 1914, it was reported that the Lord Kelvin Memorial Executive Committee decided that the balance of funds left over from providing a memorial window at Westminster Abbey should be devoted to providing a Kelvin Gold Medal to mark "a distinction in engineering work or investigation" by the Presidents of eight leading British Engineering Institutions.[1] There was a delay in awarding the first medal due to the World War.
The medal has been given triennially since 1920 for "distinguished service in the application of science to engineering". The Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) administered the prize. The Committee of Presidents considers recommendations received from similar bodies from all parts of the world.[2] The first recipient was William Unwin.[3]
Recipients
[edit]Year | Name | Ref | Country | Engineering Field |
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2013 | Peter Davies | [4] | ![]() | discipline of Fluid Mechanics, particularly Environmental Fluid Mechanics |
2010 | ||||
2007 | ||||
2004 | Sir David Neil Payne | [5] | ![]() | Research into photonics, and its application to produce many of the key advances in optic fibre communications. |
2001 | ||||
1998 | Duncan Dowson | [6] | ![]() | Tri-Elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication; Bio-Tribology |
1995 | William Bonfield | [7] | ![]() | Materials science |
1992 | Prof Sir Bernard Crossland | [8] | ![]() | Mechanical Engineering |
1989 | John Boscawen Burland | [8][9][10] | ![]() | Soil mechanics |
1986 | Sir Alan Howard Cottrell | [8][11] | ![]() | Metallurgy |
1983 | ||||
1980 | ||||
1977 | ||||
1974 | Charles Stark Draper | [12] | ![]() | Control theory |
1971 | The Lord Penny | [13] | ![]() | Atomic Energy |
1968 | Sir Barnes Neville Wallis | ![]() | Marine Engineering | |
1965 | Brigadier- General Sir Harold Hartley | ![]() | Physical and mineralogical chemistry | |
1962 | Sir Edward Victor Appleton | [14] | ![]() | |
1959 | Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | [15][16] | ![]() | Fluid dynamics |
1956 | Sir John Cockcroft | [16][17] | ![]() | Atomic Physics |
1953 | Chalmers Jack Mackenzie | [16][18] | ![]() | Atomic Engineering |
1950 | Dr Theodore von Kármán | [16][19] | ![]() | Aerospace engineering |
1947 | Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle | [16][19][2] | ![]() | |
1944 | Not awarded | [2] | ||
1941 | not awarded | [2] | ||
1938 | Sir Joseph John Thomson | [16][19][20] | ![]() | Sub Atomic Physics |
1935 | Sir John Ambrose Fleming | [16][21] | ![]() | Electrical Engineering |
1932 | 1st Marquis of Marconi | [16][19][2] | ![]() | Electrical and Radio Engineering |
1929 | André-Eugène Blondel | [16][19][2] | ![]() | Physicist |
1926 | Sir Charles Algernon Parsons | [16][2] | ![]() | Steam Power Engineering |
1923 | Dr. Elihu Thomson | [16][19][2] | ![]() | Electrical Engineering |
1920 | William Cawthorne Unwin | [16][2] | ![]() | Civil Engineering |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The Institution of Mechanical Engineers proceedings Jan-Jun 1915" (PDF). The Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The 1055th Ordinary Meeting". IEEE. doi:10.1049/jiee-2.1949.0006.
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(help)[dead link] - ^ William Unwin Royal Society Obituary
- ^ "New RSE Royal Medallists and Prize Winners Announced" (PDF). Royal Society Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
- ^ "Optical fibre pioneer honoured by world of science". southampton.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
- ^ "Glittering prizes". 16 October 1998.
- ^ "William BONFIELD". Archived from the original on 2016-03-11.
- ^ a b c Publications, Europa (2003). Crossland Sir Bernard. ISBN 9781857432176.
- ^ "EMERITUS PROFESSORJOHNBURLAND".
- ^ "John Burland" (PDF). ingenia.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
- ^ "SIr Alan Cottrell" (PDF). royalsocietypublishing.
- ^ "Charles Stark Draper Certificates". National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
- ^ "PENNEY, William, Baron Penney of East Hendred (1909-1991)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
- ^ "Edward Victor Appleton".
- ^ "Taylor Geoffrey". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Award of the Kelvin medal". Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 6 (63). IEEE: 140. 1960. doi:10.1049/jiee-3.1960.0075.[dead link]
- ^ "London Report". Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 3 (28). IEEE: 248–250. 1957. doi:10.1049/jiee-3.1957.0129.[dead link]
- ^ "CJ Mackenzie". conferences.usask.ca. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
- ^ a b c d e f "Kelvin Medal" (PDF).
- ^ "Presentation of Kelvin Gold Medal". Nature. 141 (3575): 825. 1938. Bibcode:1938Natur.141T.825.. doi:10.1038/141825d0.
- ^ "Personal Pars".