James Watt Medal
The James Watt International Medal (engl. James Watt International Gold Medal ) is an award by the British of mechanical engineers Institution ( Institution of Mechanical Engineers - IMechE) every two years, is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of mechanical engineering. It is named after the engineer and inventor James Watt and was donated in 1936 on the occasion of his 200th birthday. According to IMechE , the award is "the highest that the institution can award and the highest that a mechanical engineer can achieve" .
The award is given internationally; Engineering associations from all over the world are entitled to propose. The medal is considered by some to be the “ Nobel Prize in Mechanical Engineering”.
Another medal named after James Watt, but less well known, is also awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers .
Award winners
- 1937 John Aspinall
- 1939 Henry Ford
- 1941 Aurel Stodola
- 1943 Anthony Michell
- 1945 Frederick W. Lanchester
- 1947 Stephen Timoshenko
- 1949 Fredrik Ljungström
- 1951 Hans Henrik Blache
- 1953 Harry Ricardo
- 1955 Igor Sikorski
- 1957 Walther Bauersfeld
- 1959 Claude Gibb
- 1961 Theodore von Kármán
- 1963 William Stanier
- 1965 GI Taylor
- 1967 Ivan Ivanovitch Artobolevskii
- 1969 Hideo Shima
- 1971 Robert Gilruth
- 1973 Christopher Hinton
- 1975 Siegfried Meurer
- 1977 Frank Whittle
- 1979 Raymond Heacock
- 1981 Jacob P. Den Hartog
- 1983 Christopher Cockerell
- 1985 Hugh Ford
- 1987 Denis Rooke
- 1989 John E. Steiner
- 1991 Sōichirō Honda
- 1993 Frédéric JP d'Allest
- 1995 Eiji Toyoda
- 1997 Sydney Gillibrand
- 1999 Bernard Crossland
- 2001 Duncan Dowson
- 2003 Ralph Robins
- 2005 Leroy 'Skip' Fletcher
- 2008 John Spence
- 2010 Roger Morgan Goodall
- 2012 Sze-yuen Chung
- 2014 Richard Parry-Jones
- 2016 Ann Dowling
- 2019 David McMurtry
Individual evidence
Web links
- Details of the James Watt International Gold Medal and Medal Recipients (PDF, 25 kB) on the website of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (imeche.org)