List of Makdougall Brisbane Prize winners

Last updated November 13, 2024

This is a list of winners of the biennial Makdougall Brisbane Prize for particular distinction in the promotion of scientific research, latterly restyled as the annually awarded Makdougall Brisbane Medal for early career achievement in the physical sciences, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It is not to be confused with the similarly named award given by the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.

Makdougall Brisbane Prize

Sources (to 2002): RSE and RSE

1859 – Roderick Murchison
1860–62 – William Seller ^[1]
1862–64 – Sir John Denis Macdonald ^[2]
1864–66
1866–68 – Alexander Crum Brown and Thomas Richard Fraser (joint)
1868–70 – Not awarded
1870–72 – George Allman
1872–74 – Joseph Lister
1874–76 – Alexander Buchan
1876–78 – Archibald Geikie
1878–80 – Charles Piazzi Smyth
1880–82 – James Geikie
1882–84 – Edward Sang
1884–86 – Sir John Murray
1886–88 – Archibald Geikie (only Fellow twice awarded the prize)
1888–90 – Ludwig Becker
1890–92 – Hugh Robert Mill
1892–94 – James Walker
1894–96 – John Gray McKendrick
1896–98 – William Peddie ^[3]
1898–1900 – Ramsay Traquair
1900–02 – Arthur T. Masterman
1902–04 – John Dougall
1904–06 – Jakob Karl Ernst Halm
1906–08 – David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan
1908–10 – Ernest Wedderburn
1910–12 – John Brownlee
1912–14 – Charles Robertson Marshall
1914–16 – Robert Alexander Houstoun
1916–18 – Abercrombie Lawson
1918–20 – Joseph Wedderburn
1920–22 – William Thomas Gordon ^[4]
1922–24 – Herbert Stanley Allen
1924–26 – Charles Morley Wenyon, protozoologist
1926–28 – William Ogilvy Kermack
1928–30
1930–32 – Alexander Aitken
1932–34 – Alfred Ernest Henderson Cameron
1934–36 – Ernest Masson Anderson
1936–38 – David Meredith Seares Watson
1938–40 – Edward Lindsay Ince
1940–42 – William Wright Smith
1942–44 – Max Born and Peng Huanwu
1944–46 – William Black
1946–48 - Mowbray Ritchie
1948–50
1950–52 – Edward Maitland Wright
1952–54 – William Charles Osman Hill
1954–56 – Maurice Yonge
1956–58 – Ian Sneddon
1958–60
1960–62 – Edward McWilliam Patterson
1962–64 – Arthur Holmes ^[5]
1964–66 – Daniel Edwin Rutherford
1966–68 – James Norman Davidson
1968–70 – Norman Feather ^[6]
1970–72
1972–74 – David Paton Cuthbertson
1974–76 – Frederick Valentine Atkinson ^[7]
1976–78
1978–80 – Walter Eric Spear ^[8]
1980–82 – William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett ^[9]
1982–84 – John Henderson Knox ^[10]
1984–86 – Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith ^[11]
1988
1990
1992 – Tom Brown, University of Oxford ^[10]
1994 - Gordon Hayward ^[12]
1996 – Mike Ferguson, University of Dundee ^[13]
1998 – Weiping Lu, Heriot Watt University (67th award) ^[14]
1999 – Anne Neville – Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Leeds
2001 – Dario Alessi ^[15]
2003 – James Wright^[15]
2005 – Colin McInnes ^[15]
2007 – Andrew Baker ^[15]
2009

Makdougall Brisbane Medal

2012 – Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews^[16] and Rob Jenkins, University of York ^[17]
2013 - Aidan Robson, University of Glasgow ^[18]
2014 - Per Ola Kristensson and Catherine Cazin, University of St Andrews ^[19]
2015 - Stefan Hild, University of Glasgow ^[20]
2016 - Malcolm Macdonald, University of Strathclyde ^[20]
2017 - Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh ^[21]
2018 - Kimberley Kavanagh, University of Strathclyde ^[22]
2019 - Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow ^[23]
2021 - Mehul Malik, Heriot-Watt University ^[24]
2022 - Jonathan Fraser, University of St Andrews ^[25]

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↑ "William Peddie". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
↑ "The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Makdougall Brisbane Prize". The Glasgow Herald . 3 July 1923. p. 9. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
↑ "The 11 medals of Arthur Holmes". The Geological Society. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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1 2 "Directory 2016/2017" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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↑ "RSE LADY MARGARET MOIR MEDAL". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
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[1] Cleghorn (1870). "Obituary Notices of the late Dr William Seller and of Professor Bertoloni of Bologna" (PDF). Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 10: 202–205. doi:10.1080/03746607009468682.

[2] Laughton, L.G.C. (1912). "Macdonald, John Denis" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. pp. 517–518.

[3] "William Peddie". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[4] "The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Makdougall Brisbane Prize". The Glasgow Herald . 3 July 1923. p. 9. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

[5] "The 11 medals of Arthur Holmes". The Geological Society. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[6] Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2016.

[7] Mingarelli, Angelo B. (2005). "A glimpse into the life and times of F.V. Atkinson". Math. Nachr. 278 (12–13): 1–29. arXiv: math/0608602 . Bibcode:2006math......8602M. doi:10.1002/mana.200410311.

[8] Alexander G Fitzgerald. "Walter Eric Spear" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.

[9] "William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett" (PDF). RSE. Retrieved 20 November 2017.

[RSE-10] 1 2 "Directory 2016/2017" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[11] The International Who's Who 2004. p. 526.

[12] "2001 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium & PDA Exhibit" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 2 May 2018.

[13] "Professor Mike Ferguson appointed to Wellcome Trust Board of Governors". Wellcome. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[14] Lei Yang; Zhen Qiu; Greenaway, A. H.; Weiping Lu (2012). "A New Framework for Particle Detection in Low-SNR Fluorescence Live-Cell Images and Its Application for Improved Particle Tracking". IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 59 (7): 2040–2050. doi:10.1109/TBME.2012.2196798. PMID 22552546.

[royalsoced.org.uk-15] 1 2 3 4 "The Royal Society of Edinburgh – Makdougall Brisbane Prize". 28 October 2016.

[16] "Corday-Morgan Prize 2015 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

[17] "Rob Jenkins, Reader". University of York. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[18] "Dr Aidan Robson". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

[19] "RSE announces Royal Medals and Prizes" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

[RSE-ECP-20] 1 2 "Early Career Prizes". Royal Society of Edinburgh. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

[21] "Academic Excellence Recognised with the Announcement of RSE Prizewinners". RSE. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.

[22] "Distinguished Academics Recognised in RSE 2018 Medals and Prizes". RSE. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

[23] "Prestigious Medals for Pioneering Scientists and Researchers in Scotland". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

[24] "RSE LADY MARGARET MOIR MEDAL". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 March 2024.

[25] "2022 RSE MEDALS RECOGNISE PIONEERS IN SCIENCE, ACADEMIA AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 March 2024.

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