Kelvin Gold Medal

The Kelvin Gold Medal is a British engineering prize.

This article is about the British Engineering award. For the "Kelvin Medal" awarded by the Institute of Physics, see Kelvin 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 provide 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 prize is administered by the Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). 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
Year Name Ref Country Engineering Field
2013Peter Davies[4] United Kingdomdiscipline of Fluid Mechanics, particularly Environmental Fluid Mechanics
2010
2007
2004Sir David Neil Payne[5] United KingdomResearch into photonics, and its application to produce many of the key advances in optic fibre communications.
2001
1998Duncan Dowson[6] United KingdomTri-Elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication; Bio-Tribology
1995William Bonfield[7] United KingdomMaterials science
1992Prof Sir Bernard Crossland[8] United KingdomMechanical Engineering
1989John Boscawen Burland[8][9][10] South AfricaSoil mechanics
1986Sir Alan Howard Cottrell[8][11] United KingdomMetallurgy
1983
1980
1977
1974Charles Stark Draper[12] United StatesControl theory
1971The Lord Penny[13] United KingdomAtomic Energy
1968Sir Barnes Neville Wallis United KingdomMarine Engineering
1965Brigadier- General Sir Harold Hartley United KingdomPhysical and mineralogical chemistry
1962Sir Edward Victor Appleton[14] United Kingdom
1959Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor[15][16] United KingdomFluid dynamics
1956Sir John Cockcroft[16][17] United KingdomAtomic Physics
1953Chalmers Jack Mackenzie[16][18] CanadaAtomic Engineering
1950Dr Theodore von Kármán[16][19] HungaryAerospace engineering
1947Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle[16][19][2] United Kingdom
1944Not awarded[2]
1941not awarded[2]
1938Sir Joseph John Thomson[16][19][20] United KingdomSub Atomic Physics
1935Sir John Ambrose Fleming[16][21] United KingdomElectrical Engineering
19321st Marquis of Marconi[16][19][2] ItalyElectrical and Radio Engineering
1929André-Eugène Blondel[16][19][2] FrancePhysicist
1926Sir Charles Algernon Parsons[16][2] United KingdomSteam Power Engineering
1923Dr. Elihu Thomson[16][19][2] United StatesElectrical Engineering
1920William Cawthorne Unwin[16][2] United KingdomCivil Engineering

See also

References
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  14. "Edward Victor Appleton".
  15. "Taylor Geoffrey". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
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