IET Faraday Medal

This article is about the medal awarded by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and previously by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. For other uses, see Faraday Prize (disambiguation).

IET Faraday Medal
Front side of the medal
Awarded for	Awarded either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology or for lifetime achievement in science, engineering or technology.
Sponsored by	Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
Date	1922;103 years ago (1922)
Country	United Kingdom
Website	Faraday Medal recipients
Reverse side of the medal
Precedence
Next (higher)	None
Next (lower)	Mountbatten Medal

The Faraday Medal is a top-tier international medal awarded by the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (previously known as the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)). ^{[1] [2] [3]} As one of the world's foremost awards in engineering and the most prestigious in electrical engineering, it is part of the IET Achievement Medals collection of awards. ^[4] The medal is named after the British physicist Michael Faraday, the father of electromagnetism.

Background

The Faraday Medal is the IET's highest honour and one of the world's most prestigious awards for engineers and scientists. Winners include ground-breaking pioneers and inventors. First awarded in 1922, it is one of the oldest medals still being awarded today. The top medal is awarded annually to distinguished individuals who either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology, without restriction as regards to nationality, country of residence or membership of the Institution. The award was established in 1922 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and is named after Michael Faraday. Each year, the recipient received his/her award at a ceremony held in London that is hosted by the IET. ^[5]

Winners

• 
  Heaviside: Transmission line theory, H-step function, 1922
• 
  Parsons: Invented the modern steam turbine, 1923
• 
  Thomson: Discovered electrons, 1925
• 
  Fleming: Invented vacuum tubes, 1928
• 
  Rutherford: Discovered the atomic nucleus, 1930
• 
  Appleton: Discovered the Appleton layer, 1946
• 
  Cockcroft: "Split" the atomic nucleus, 1955
• 
  Zworykin involved with inventing television and electron microscope, 1965
• 
  Wilkes: Built the first electronic computer, 1981
• 
  Kao: Pioneered the development and use of fibre optics, 1989
• 
  Knuth: Art of computer programming, 2011
• 
  Immink: Digital video and audio recording, 2015
• 
  Stroustrup: Created C++, 2017

First 50 Years (1922–1972)

• 1922 Oliver Heaviside
• 1923 The Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
• 1924 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
• 1925 Sir Joseph John Thomson
• 1926 Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
• 1927 Elihu Thomson
• 1928 Sir Ambrose Fleming
• 1929 Guido Semenza
• 1930 Sir Ernest Rutherford
• 1931 Charles Hesterman Merz
• 1932 Sir Oliver Lodge
• 1933 no award
• 1934 Sir Frank Edward Smith
• 1935 Frank Baldwin Jewett
• 1936 Sir William Henry Bragg
• 1937 André Blondel
• 1938 Sir John Francis Cleverton Snell
• 1939 William David Coolidge
• 1940 Alexander Russell
• 1941 Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming
• 1942 Pyotr Kapitsa
• 1943 Sir Archibald Page
• 1944 Irving Langmuir
• 1945 Sir Clifford Copland Paterson
• 1946 Sir Edward Victor Appleton
• 1947 Sir Leonard Pearce
• 1948 Mark Oliphant
• 1949 Charles Samuel Franklin
• 1950 Sir James Chadwick
• 1951 Thomas Eckersley
• 1952 Ernest Lawrence
• 1953 Sir Arthur Stanley Angwin
• 1954 Sir Isaac Shoenberg
• 1955 Sir John Cockcroft
• 1956 G W O Howe
• 1957 Waldemar Borgquist
• 1958 Sir Gordon Radley
• 1959 Luigi Emanueli
• 1960 Sir George Paget Thomson
• 1961 Julius Adams Stratton
• 1962 Sir Basil Schonland
• 1963 Pierre Marie Jean Ailleret
• 1964 Joseph Ronald Mortlock
• 1965 Vladimir Zworykin
• 1966 J A Ratcliffe
• 1967 H E M Barlow
• 1968 Leslie Herbert Bedford
• 1969 Philip Sporn
• 1970 Charles William Oatley
• 1971 Sir Martin Ryle
• 1972 F C Williams

Next 50 Years (1973–2023)

• 1973 Sir Nevill Mott
• 1974 George Millington
• 1975 John Millar Meek
• 1976 Thomas Otten Paine
• 1977 John Bertram Adams
• 1978 Erich Friedlander
• 1979 Robert Noyce
• 1980 Eric Ash
• 1981 Sir Maurice Wilkes
• 1982 Brian David Josephson
• 1983 William Alexander Gambling
• 1984 Alexander Lamb Cullen
• 1985 Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare
• 1986 Edwin Douglas Ramsay Shearman
• 1987 Sir David Evan Naunton Davies
• 1988 Cyril Hilsum
• 1989 Charles Kuen Kao
• 1990 Peter Lawrenson
• 1991 Alan Rudge
• 1992 Laszlo Solymar
• 1993 Alistair George James MacFarlane
• 1994 John Parnaby
• 1995 David Rhodes  [ Wikidata ]
• 1996 Stewart Crichton Miller
• 1997 John Edwin Midwinter
• 1998 Roger Needham
• 1999 Patrick Arthur McKeown
• 2000 J. Michael Brady ^[6]
• 2001 Chris Harris
• 2002 Sir Robin Saxby ^[7]
• 2003 Sir Richard Friend ^[8]
• 2004 Peter Mitchell Grant ^[9]
• 2005 Azim Premji
• 2006 John McCanny ^[10]
• 2007 Steve Furber ^[11]
• 2008 Josef Kittler ^[12]
• 2009 Sir Martin Sweeting
• 2010 Donal Bradley
• 2011 Donald Knuth ^[13]
• 2012 Leonardo Chiariglione
• 2013 Sir Michael Pepper ^[14]
• 2014 Christofer Toumazou ^[15]
• 2015 Kees Schouhamer Immink
• 2016 Andy Harter ^[16]
• 2017 Bjarne Stroustrup ^[17]
• 2018 - not awarded
• 2019 Sir Peter Knight
• 2020 Bashir Al-Hashimi ^[18]
• 2021 John E E Fleming ^[19]
• 2023 Arogyaswami Paulraj

See also

• Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
• Millennium Technology Prize
• IEEE Medal of Honor
• Turing Award
• Nobel Prize

References

1. IET Archives Archived December 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
2. Oxford DNB thematic list
3. "IET Awards – Faraday Medal: Awards, prizes and scholarships within engineering and technology". London: theiet.org. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
4. "IET Achievement Medals".
5. "IET Awards ceremony".
6. "Sir Michael Brady, University of Oxford, UK".
7. "Sir Robin Saxby awarded 2002 Faraday Medal, 2002". Archived from the original on 1 May 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
8. "Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge, UK". 23 July 2013.
9. "Professor wins IEE's highest accolade, 2004". 26 March 2004.
10. "DSP pioneer awarded Faraday Medal, 2006".
11. "PC revolutionary honoured". 18 September 2007.
12. "Professor Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK".
13. IET: Professor Donald Knuth to be awarded prestigious Faraday Medal, Politics.co.uk Archived 2 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 16 May 2016.
14. "Sir Mike Pepper winner of IET Faraday Medal 2013".^{[ permanent dead link ]}
15. "Imperial researcher wins Institution of Engineering and Technology's top honour".
16. "Alumnus awarded Faraday medal, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge".^{[ permanent dead link ]}
17. "Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal".
18. "Our IET 2020 Prestige Medal winners". Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
19. "Our IET 2021 Prestige Medal winners". Institution of Engineering and Technology.