Hughes Medal
The Hughes Medal , named after David Edward Hughes , is an award given by the Royal Society for original discoveries in the field of physics , particularly in the field of electromagnetism and its applications. The prize consists of a gold-plated silver medal and (as of 2015) is endowed with prize money of 2000 pounds sterling . It has been awarded irregularly since 2008.
Award winners
- 1902: Joseph John Thomson
- 1903: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
- 1904: Joseph Wilson Swan
- 1905: Augusto Righi
- 1906: Hertha Marks Ayrton
- 1907: Ernest Howard Griffiths
- 1908: Eugen Goldstein
- 1909: Richard Glazebrook
- 1910: John Ambrose Fleming
- 1911: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
- 1912: William Duddell
- 1913: Alexander Graham Bell
- 1914: John Sealy Townsend
- 1915: Paul Langevin
- 1916: Elihu Thomson
- 1917: Charles Glover Barkla
- 1918: Irving Langmuir
- 1919: Charles Chree
- 1920: Owen Willans Richardson
- 1921: Niels Bohr
- 1922: Francis William Aston
- 1923: Robert Andrews Millikan
- 1924: Not awarded
- 1925: Frank Edward Smith
- 1926: Henry Bradwardine Jackson
- 1927: William David Coolidge
- 1928: Maurice de Broglie
- 1929: Hans Geiger
- 1930: CV Raman
- 1931: William Lawrence Bragg
- 1932: James Chadwick
- 1933: Edward Victor Appleton
- 1934: Manne Siegbahn
- 1935: Clinton Davisson
- 1936: Walter Schottky
- 1937: Ernest Lawrence
- 1938: John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton
- 1939: George Paget Thomson
- 1940: Arthur Holly Compton
- 1941: Nevill Francis Mott
- 1942: Enrico Fermi
- 1943: Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
- 1944: George Finch
- 1945: Basil Schonland
- 1946: John Turton Randall
- 1947: Frédéric Joliot-Curie
- 1948: Robert Watson-Watt
- 1949: Cecil Powell
- 1950: Max Born
- 1951: Hendrik Anthony Kramers
- 1952: Philip Dee
- 1953: Edward C. Bullard
- 1954: Martin Ryle
- 1955: Harrie Massey
- 1956: Frederick Lindemann
- 1957: Joseph Proudman
- 1958: Edward Andrade
- 1959: Alfred Pippard
- 1960: Joseph Pawsey
- 1961: Alan Cottrell
- 1962: Brebis Bleaney
- 1963: Frederic Calland Williams
- 1964: Abdus Salam
- 1965: Denys Wilkinson
- 1966: Nicholas Kemmer
- 1967: Kurt Mendelssohn
- 1968: Freeman Dyson
- 1969: Nicholas Kurti
- 1970: David Bates
- 1971: Robert Hanbury Brown
- 1972: Brian D. Josephson
- 1973: Peter B. Hirsch
- 1974: Peter Fowler
- 1975: Richard Dalitz
- 1976: Stephen Hawking
- 1977: Antony Hewish
- 1978: William Cochran
- 1979: Robert Williams
- 1980: Francis Farley
- 1981: Peter Higgs , TWB Kibble
- 1982: Drummond Hoyle Matthews and Frederick Vine
- 1983: John Clive Ward
- 1984: Roy Patrick Kerr
- 1985: Tony Skyrme
- 1986: Michael Woolfson
- 1987: Michael Pepper
- 1988: Archibald Howie and Michael John Whelan
- 1989: John Stewart Bell
- 1990: Thomas George Cowling
- 1991: Philip Burton Moon
- 1992: Michael J. Seaton
- 1993: George Isaak
- 1994: Robert Chambers
- 1995: David Shoenberg
- 1996: Amyand Buckingham
- 1997: Andrew Richard Lang
- 1998: Raymond Hide
- 1999: Alexander Boksenberg
- 2000: Chintamani Rao
- 2001: John Pethica
- 2002: Alexander Dalgarno
- 2003: Peter Edwards
- 2004: John Clarke
- 2005: Keith Moffatt
- 2006: Michael Kelly
- 2007: Artur Ekert
- 2008: Michele Dougherty
- 2010: Andre Geim
- 2011: Matthew J. Rosseinsky
- 2013: Henning Sirringhaus
- 2015: George Efstathiou
- 2017: Peter Bruce
- 2019: Andrew Cooper
- 2020: Clare Gray
Web links
- The Hughes Medal on the Royal Society website