Davy medal
The Davy Medal is the UK's highest honor given to scientists in the field of chemistry. It is made of bronze and has been awarded annually by the Royal Society since 1877 . It is named after the British chemist and physicist Humphry Davy . The Davy Medal is endowed with 2000 pounds sterling (as of 2016) .
List of award winners
- 1877: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
- 1878: Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet
- 1879: Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
- 1880: Charles Friedel
- 1881: Adolf von Baeyer
- 1882: Dmitri Iwanowitsch Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer
- 1883: Marcelin Berthelot and Julius Thomsen
- 1884: Hermann Kolbe
- 1885: Jean Servais Stas
- 1886: Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
- 1887: John Alexander Reina Newlands
- 1888: William Crookes
- 1889: William Henry Perkin
- 1890: Emil Fischer
- 1891: Victor Meyer
- 1892: François Marie Raoult
- 1893: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and Joseph Le Bel
- 1894: Per Teodor Cleve
- 1895: William Ramsay
- 1896: Henri Moissan
- 1897: John Hall Gladstone
- 1898: Johannes Wislicenus
- 1899: Edward Schunck
- 1900: Guglielmo Koerner
- 1901: George Downing Liveing
- 1902: Svante Arrhenius
- 1903: Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
- 1904: William Henry Perkin
- 1905: Albert Ladenburg
- 1906: Rudolph Fittig
- 1907: Edward W. Morley
- 1908: William A. Tilden
- 1909: James Dewar
- 1910: Theodore William Richards
- 1911: Henry Edward Armstrong
- 1912: Otto Wallach
- 1913: Raphael Meldola
- 1914: William Jackson Pope
- 1915: Paul Sabatier
- 1916: Henry Le Chatelier
- 1917: Albin Haller
- 1918: Frederic Stanley Kipping
- 1919: Percy F. Frankland
- 1920: Charles Heycock
- 1921: Philippe A. Guye
- 1922: Jocelyn Field Thorpe
- 1923: Herbert Brereton Baker
- 1924: Arthur George Perkin
- 1925: James Irvine
- 1926: James Walker
- 1927: Arthur Amos Noyes
- 1928: Frederick George Donnan
- 1929: Gilbert Newton Lewis
- 1930: Robert Robinson
- 1931: Arthur Lapworth
- 1932: Richard Willstätter
- 1933: William Hobson Mills
- 1934: Walter Norman Haworth
- 1935: Arthur Harden
- 1936: William Arthur Bone
- 1937: Hans Fischer
- 1938: George Barger
- 1939: James William McBain
- 1940: Harold C. Urey
- 1941: Henry Drysdale Dakin
- 1942: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- 1943: Ian Heilbron
- 1944: Robert Robertson (chemist)
- 1945: Roger Adams
- 1946: Christopher Kelk Ingold
- 1947: Linus Pauling
- 1948: Edmund Hirst
- 1949: Alexander Robertus Todd
- 1950: John Simonsen
- 1951: Eric Rideal
- 1952: Alexander Robertson
- 1953: John Lennard-Jones
- 1954: James Wilfred Cook
- 1955: Harry Work Melville
- 1956: Robert Downs Haworth
- 1957: Kathleen Lonsdale
- 1958: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
- 1959: Robert B. Woodward
- 1960: John Monteath Robertson
- 1961: Derek HR Barton
- 1962: Harry Julius Emeléus
- 1963: Edmund John Bowen
- 1964: Melvin Calvin
- 1965: Harold Warris Thompson
- 1966: Ewart Jones
- 1967: Vladimir Prelog
- 1968: John W. Cornforth and George Joseph Popják
- 1969: Frederick Sydney Dainton
- 1970: Charles Coulson
- 1971: George Porter
- 1972: Arthur Birch
- 1973: John Stuart Anderson
- 1974: James Baddiley
- 1975: Morris Sugden
- 1976: Rex Edward Richards
- 1977: Alan Battersby
- 1978: Albert Eschenmoser
- 1979: Joseph Chatt
- 1980: Alan Woodworth Johnson
- 1981: Ralph Raphael
- 1982: Michael Dewar
- 1983: Duilio Arigoni
- 1984: Samuel Edwards
- 1985: Jack Lewis
- 1986: Alexander George Ogston
- 1987: Alec John Jeffreys
- 1988: John Anthony Pople
- 1989: F. Gordon A. Stone
- 1990: Keith U. Ingold
- 1991: Jeremy R. Knowles
- 1992: Alan Carrington
- 1993: Jack Baldwin
- 1994: John Meurig Thomas
- 1995: MLH Green
- 1996: Geoffrey Wilkinson
- 1997: Jean-Marie Lehn
- 1998: Alan Fersht
- 1999: Malcolm Harold Chisholm
- 2000: Steven Ley
- 2001: A. Ian Scott
- 2002: Neil Bartlett
- 2003: Roger Parsons
- 2004: Takeshi Oka
- 2005: Chris Dobson
- 2006: Martin Pope
- 2007: John Simons
- 2008: Fraser Stoddart
- 2009: Jeremy Sanders
- 2010: Carol V. Robinson
- 2011: Ahmed Zewail
- 2012: Fraser Armstrong
- 2013: Graham Hutchings
- 2014: Clare Gray
- 2015: Gideon Davies
- 2016: Stephen Mann
- 2017: Matthew Rosseinsky
- 2018: John A. Pyle
- 2019: Varinder Aggarwal
- 2020: Benjamin Davis