Faraday Medal (IEE)
The Faraday Medal of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) is an annual award for outstanding scientific or industrial achievements in the technical field or for the advancement of science and technology. The award is given regardless of IEE membership or nationality. It was donated in 1922 in memory of the 50th anniversary of the first meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers (predecessor of the IEE). The award is named after Michael Faraday .
The prize is awarded today (as of 2019) by the IET ( Institution of Engineering and Technology ).
There is also a Faraday Medal (IOP) .
Award winners
- 1922: Oliver Heaviside
- 1923: Charles Algernon Parsons
- 1924: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
- 1925: Joseph John Thomson
- 1926: Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
- 1927: Elihu Thomson
- 1928: John Ambrose Fleming
- 1929: Guido Semenza
- 1930: Ernest Rutherford
- 1931: Charles Hesterman Merz
- 1932: Oliver Lodge
- 1933: no price
- 1934: Frank Edward Smith
- 1935: Frank B. Jewett
- 1936: William Henry Bragg
- 1937: André-Eugène Blondel
- 1938: John Snell
- 1939: William David Coolidge
- 1940: Alexander Russell
- 1941: Arthur Percy Morris Fleming
- 1942: Pyotr Leonidowitsch Kapiza
- 1943: Archibald Page
- 1944: Irving Langmuir
- 1945: Clifford Copland Paterson
- 1946: Edward Victor Appleton
- 1947: Leonard Pearce
- 1948: Mark Oliphant
- 1949: Charles Samuel Franklin
- 1950: James Chadwick
- 1951: Thomas Eckersley
- 1952: Ernest Lawrence
- 1953: Arthur Stanley Angwin
- 1954: Isaac Shoenberg
- 1955: John Cockcroft
- 1956: GWO Howe
- 1957: Waldemar Borgquist
- 1958: Gordon Radley
- 1959: Luigi Emanueli
- 1960: George Paget Thomson
- 1961: Julius Adams Stratton
- 1962: Basil Schonland
- 1963: Pierre Ailleret
- 1964: Joseph Ronald Mortlock
- 1965: Vladimir Zworykin
- 1966: John Ashworth Ratcliffe
- 1967: Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow
- 1968: Leslie Herbert Bedford
- 1969: Phillip Sporn
- 1970: Charles William Oatley
- 1971: Martin Ryle
- 1972: Frederic Calland Williams
- 1973: Nevill Mott
- 1974: George Millington
- 1975: John Millar Meek
- 1976: Thomas O. Paine
- 1977: John Bertram Adams
- 1978: E. Friedlander
- 1979: Robert Noyce
- 1980: Eric Ash
- 1981: Maurice Wilkes
- 1982: Brian D. Josephson
- 1983: William Alexander Gambling
- 1984: Alexander Lamb Cullen
- 1985: CAR Hoare
- 1986: EDR Shearman
- 1987: THE Davies
- 1988: Cyril Hilsum
- 1989: Charles K. Kao
- 1990: Peter Lawrenson
- 1991: Alan Rudge
- 1992: L. Solymar
- 1993: Alexander GJ MacFarlane
- 1994: John Parnaby
- 1995: John David Rhodes
- 1996: SC Miller
- 1997: John Midwinter
- 1998: Roger Needham
- 1999: PA McKeown
- 2000: Michael Brady
- 2001: Chris Harris
- 2002: Robin Saxby
- 2003: Richard Henry Friend
- 2004: Peter Grant
- 2005: Azim Premji
- 2006: John Vincent McCanny
- 2007: Steve Furber
- 2008: Josef Kittler
- 2009: Martin Sweeting
- 2010: Donal Bradley
- 2011: Donald E. Knuth
- 2012: Leonardo Chiariglione
- 2013: Michael Pepper
- 2014: Christofer Toumazou
- 2015: Kees Schouhamer Immink
- 2016: Andy Harter
- 2017: Bjarne Stroustrup
- 2019: Peter L. Knight
Web links
- Faraday Medal at the IET
- Faraday Medalists at the IET