Kelvin Gold Medal

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The Kelvin Gold Medal is a British engineering prize.

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In the annual report for 1914, it was reported that the Lord Kelvin Memorial Executive Committee decided that the balance of funds left over from providing a memorial window at Westminster Abbey should be devoted to providing a Kelvin Gold Medal to mark "a distinction in engineering work or investigation" by the Presidents of eight leading British Engineering Institutions. [1] There was a delay in awarding the first medal due to the World War.

The medal has been given triennially since 1920 for "distinguished service in the application of science to engineering". The Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) administered the prize. The Committee of Presidents considers recommendations received from similar bodies from all parts of the world. [2] The first recipient was William Unwin. [3]

Recipients

YearNameRefCountryEngineering Field
2013Peter Davies [4] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom discipline of Fluid Mechanics, particularly Environmental Fluid Mechanics
2010
2007
2004 Sir David Neil Payne [5] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Research into photonics, and its application to produce many of the key advances in optic fibre communications.
2001
1998 Duncan Dowson [6] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Tri-Elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication; Bio-Tribology
1995 William Bonfield [7] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Materials science
1992 Prof Sir Bernard Crossland [8] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Mechanical Engineering
1989 John Boscawen Burland [8] [9] [10] Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Soil mechanics
1986 Sir Alan Howard Cottrell [8] [11] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Metallurgy
1983
1980
1977
1974 Charles Stark Draper [12] Flag of the United States.svg  United States Control theory
1971 The Lord Penny [13] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Atomic Energy
1968 Sir Barnes Neville Wallis Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Marine Engineering
1965Brigadier- General Sir Harold Hartley Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Physical and mineralogical chemistry
1962 Sir Edward Victor Appleton [14] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
1959 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor [15] [16] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Fluid dynamics
1956Sir John Cockcroft [16] [17] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Atomic Physics
1953 Chalmers Jack Mackenzie [16] [18] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Atomic Engineering
1950Dr Theodore von Kármán [16] [19] Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Aerospace engineering
1947Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle [16] [19] [2] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
1944Not awarded [2]
1941not awarded [2]
1938 Sir Joseph John Thomson [16] [19] [20] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Sub Atomic Physics
1935 Sir John Ambrose Fleming [16] [21] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Electrical Engineering
1932 1st Marquis of Marconi [16] [19] [2] Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Electrical and Radio Engineering
1929 André-Eugène Blondel [16] [19] [2] Flag of France.svg  France Physicist
1926 Sir Charles Algernon Parsons [16] [2] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Steam Power Engineering
1923Dr. Elihu Thomson [16] [19] [2] Flag of the United States.svg  United States Electrical Engineering
1920 William Cawthorne Unwin [16] [2] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Civil Engineering

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