Thomson Medal (Royal Society of New Zealand)

This article is about the Royal Society of New Zealand award. For the Institute of Physics award, see Institute of Physics Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize.

Thomson Medal in 2024

The Thomson Medal is a medal awarded annually since 1984 by the Royal Society of New Zealand for 'organisation, support and application of science and/or technology and/or the humanities in New Zealand.' ^[1]

Recipients

Year	Recipient [2]
1985	Alan Mackney [3]
1986	Colin Maiden [4]
1987	Ian Baumgart [5]
1988	Jim Hodge [6]
1989	Angus Tait
1992	Mike Collins
1994	Don Llewellyn
1996	Richard Sadleir
1998	Jim Johnston
2000	Robert Anderson
2004	John Ayers
2006	John Hay
2007	John Alexander Kernohan
2008	Andy West
2009	Richard Garland
2010	Shaun Coffey
2011	Neville Jordan
2012	Richard Furneaux
2013	Peter Lee
2014	Rob Murdoch
2015	Richard Blaikie
2016	Bruce Campbell
2017	Charles Eason
2018	Carolyn Burns
2019	Timothy Haskell
2020	John Caradus
2021	Gary Wilson
2022	David Hutchinson [7]
2023	Nicola Gaston [8]
2024	Sergei Gulyaev [9]
2025	Carolyn King [10]

Notes

1. "Thomson Medal". Royal Society Te Apārangi.
2. "Recipients". Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 6 June 2022.
3. Lambert 1991, p. 399.
4. Lambert 1991, p. 413.
5. Lambert 1991, p. 41.
6. Lambert 1991, p. 291.
7. "The Dunedin Study wins Rutherford Medal and other Research Honours Aotearoa winners celebrated in Ōtepoti Dunedin". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
8. Jamie Morton (9 November 2023). "'Tenacious boldness': Top honour for change-making NZ scientist". NZ Herald. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
9. "2024 Thomson Medal: Tuning into space research through radio astronomy". Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 7 November 2025.
10. "Researchers celebrated at 2025 Research Honours Aotearoa events". Royal Society Te Apārangi . 4 November 2025. Retrieved 7 November 2025.

References

• Lambert, Max (1991). Who's Who in New Zealand, 1991 (12th ed.). Auckland: Octopus. ISBN   9780790001302.