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 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
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

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "The 1055th Ordinary Meeting". IEEE. doi:10.1049/jiee-2.1949.0006. ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ William Unwin Royal Society Obituary
  4. ^ "New RSE Royal Medallists and Prize Winners Announced" (PDF). Royal Society Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  5. ^ "Optical fibre pioneer honoured by world of science". southampton.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
  6. ^ "Glittering prizes". 16 October 1998.
  7. ^ "William BONFIELD". Archived from the original on 2016-03-11.
  8. ^ a b c Publications, Europa (2003). Crossland Sir Bernard. ISBN 9781857432176.
  9. ^ "EMERITUS PROFESSORJOHNBURLAND".
  10. ^ "John Burland" (PDF). ingenia.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  11. ^ "SIr Alan Cottrell" (PDF). royalsocietypublishing.
  12. ^ "Charles Stark Draper Certificates". National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  13. ^ "PENNEY, William, Baron Penney of East Hendred (1909-1991)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  14. ^ "Edward Victor Appleton".
  15. ^ "Taylor Geoffrey". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Award of the Kelvin medal". Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. IEEE. 6 (63): 140. 1960. doi:10.1049/jiee-3.1960.0075.
  17. ^ "London Report". Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. IEEE. 3 (28): 248–250. 1957. doi:10.1049/jiee-3.1957.0129.
  18. ^ "CJ Mackenzie". conferences.usask.ca. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
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  20. ^ "Presentation of Kelvin Gold Medal". Nature. 141 (3575): 825. 1938. Bibcode:1938Natur.141T.825.. doi:10.1038/141825d0.
  21. ^ "Personal Pars".


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