Mullard Award

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Mullard Award
Awarded formade to individuals whose work has the potential to make a contribution to national prosperity
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First awarded1967
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The Mullard Award is awarded annually by the Royal Society to a person who has "an outstanding academic record in any field of natural science, engineering or technology and whose contribution is currently making or has the potential to make a contribution to national prosperity in Britain." [1] It was established in 1967, and has been awarded to more people at once than any other Royal Society medal, with five individuals receiving the award in 1970. [2] The award is a silver gilt medal, which comes with a £2,000 prize and a £1,500 grant to be used for travel and attending conferences. [1] [3]

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Mullard medallists

YearNameRationaleNotes
1967 George Douglas Hutton Bell "for his contribution to agricultural production in breeding Proctor barley" [4] [5]
1968 Alastair Pilkington [6]
1969 Richard Milroy Clarkson "for outstanding advances in aircraft project conception which he has made and, in particular, the initiation of the HS 125 aircraft" [7] [8]
1970 Stephen William Kenneth Morgan, Stephen Esslement Woods, John Lumsden, Bennett Gregory Perry and Leslie Jack Derham [9]
1971 Frank Ralph Batchelor, Frank Peter Doyle, John Herbert Charles Naylor and George Newbolt Rolinson [10] [11]
1972 William Robert Boon [12]
1973 Charles William Oatley [13] [14] [15]
1974 Frank Brian Mercer [16]
1975 John Bingham [17]
1976 George Herbert Hutchings [14] [lower-alpha 1]
1977 Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield [19]
1978 James W. Black [17]
1979 Ernest Martin Ellis and Geoffrey Light Wilde [20]
1980 Edward Penley Abraham [21]
1981 Michael Elliott, Norman Frank James and David Allen Pulman [22] [23]
1982 Martin Francis Wood, John Michael Woodgate and Peter Edward Hanley [24]
1983 John William Fozard and Ralph Spenser Hooper [25]
1984 Clive Marles Sinclair [26] [27]
1985 David Kalderon [28]
1986 John Bedford Stenlake [29] [30]
1987 Michael Alan Ford [ citation needed ]
1988 Ralph Louis Wain [31]
1989 David Richard Sweatman Hedgeland [32]
1990 Peter Mansfield, John Rowland Mallard and James McDonald Strahan Hutchinson [33] : 139 
1991 David Jack and Roy Thomas Brittain [ citation needed ]
1992 Robert Willian Ernest Shannon [34] [35]
1993 Allen Hill, Monika Green and Anthony Cass "in recognition of their to the translation of bioelectrochemical research into the successful launch of molecular sensors for medical use" [36]
1994 John White, Brad Amos, Richard Durbin and Michael Fordham [37] [38] [39] [40]
1995 Kenneth Richardson [41]
1996 Ian McKittrick [42]
1997 Patrick Humphrey [43] [44] [45]
1998 Graham Richards [46]
1999 John Rhodes [47]
2000 Martin Sweeting [48]
2003 Henning Sirringhaus [49]
2004 Jeremy Baumberg [50]
2005 Ben G. Davis [51]
2007 Chris Freeman [52]
2009 Shankar Balasubramanian [53]
2014 Demis Hassabis [54]
2016 Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson "for their distinguished contributions to the design and analysis of the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) microprocessor in the 1980s, which is now used in mobile phones and other portable electronic devices throughout the world" [55]
2018 Florin Udrea and Julian Gardner [56]
2019 Hagan Bayley [57]
2020 Stephen Jackson [58]
2021 Stephen G. Davies [59]
2022Graeme Milliganfor his global leadership in pharmacological and translational studies, his successful "spinning-out" of academic research and his longstanding underpinning support for the bio-pharmaceutical industry

Table notes

  1. ↑ Hutchings became the first American to receive the award. [18]

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