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