- Hughes Medal
The Hughes Medal, named after
microphone inventorDavid Edward Hughes , is one of several medals awarded by theRoyal Society , England's reigning academy of science.The Hughes medal in particular is awarded to: "An original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications." ( [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards/medals/HughesMedal.htm Royal Society website] )
It is made of
silver gilt , and has been handed out since 1902, beginning with the eminent atomic physicistJ.J. Thomson , discoverer of theelectron . Several other notable people have also won the medal, includingHans Geiger ,Alexander Graham Bell ,Stephen Hawking , andEnrico Fermi .Hughes Medalists
* 1902
J. J. Thomson
* 1903William Hittorf
* 1904Joseph Swan
* 1905Augusto Righi
* 1906Hertha Ayrton
* 1907Ernest Howard Griffiths
* 1908Eugen Goldstein
* 1909Richard Glazebrook
* 1910John Ambrose Fleming
* 1911 Charles Wilson
* 1912William Duddell
* 1913Alexander Graham Bell
* 1914John Sealy Townsend
* 1915Paul Langevin
* 1916Elihu Thomson
* 1917Charles Barkla
* 1918Irving Langmuir
* 1919Charles Chree
* 1920Owen Richardson
* 1921Niels Bohr
* 1922Francis William Aston
* 1923Robert Millikan
* 1924 "Not awarded"
* 1925Frank Edward Smith
* 1926Henry Jackson
* 1927William Coolidge
* 1928Maurice de Broglie
* 1929Hans Geiger
* 1930Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
* 1931William Lawrence Bragg
* 1932James Chadwick
* 1933Edward Victor Appleton
* 1934Manne Siegbahn
* 1935Clinton Davisson
* 1936Walter H. Schottky
* 1937Ernest Lawrence
* 1938John Cockcroft andErnest Walton
* 1939George Paget Thomson
* 1940Arthur Compton
* 1941Nevill Mott
* 1942Enrico Fermi
* 1943 Marcus Oliphant
* 1944George Finch
* 1945Basil Schonland
* 1946 John Randall
* 1947 Jean Joliot
* 1948Robert Watson-Watt
* 1949Cecil Powell
* 1950Max Born
* 1951 Hendrik Kramers
* 1952Philip Dee
* 1953Edward Bullard
* 1954Martin Ryle
* 1955Harrie Massey
* 1956Frederick Lindemann
* 1957Joseph Proudman
* 1958Edward da Costa Andrade
* 1959Brian Pippard
* 1960Joseph Pawsey
* 1961Alan Cottrell
* 1962Brebis Bleaney
* 1963 Frederic Williams
* 1964Abdus Salam
* 1965Denys Wilkinson
* 1966Nicholas Kemmer
* 1967Kurt Mendelssohn
* 1968Freeman Dyson
* 1969Nicholas Kurti
* 1970 David Bates
* 1971Robert Hanbury Brown
* 1972Brian David Josephson
* 1973Peter Hirsch
* 1974Peter Fowler
* 1975Richard Dalitz
* 1976Stephen Hawking
* 1977Anthony Hewish
* 1978William Cochran
* 1979Robert Joseph Paton Williams
* 1980Francis Farley
* 1981Peter Higgs ,Thomas Walter andBannerman Kibble
* 1982Drummond Matthews andFrederick Vine
* 1983 John Ward
* 1984Roy Kerr
* 1985Tony Skyrme
* 1986M.M. Woolfson
* 1987Michael Pepper
* 1988Archibald Howie andM.J. Whelan
* 1989John Stewart Bell
* 1990Thomas George Cowling
* 1991Philip Moon
* 1992Michael Seaton
* 1993George Isaak
* 1994Robert G. Chambers
* 1995David Shoenberg
* 1996Amyand Buckingham
* 1997Andrew Lang (physicist)
* 1998Raymond Hide
* 1999Alexander Boksenberg
* 2000 Chintamani Rao
* 2001John Pethica
* 2002Alexander Dalgarno
* 2003Peter Edwards
* 2004 John Clarke
* 2005Keith Moffatt
* 2006 Michael Kelly
* 2007Artur Ekert ee also
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List of prizes
*Prizes named after people External links
* [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1768 Royal Society: Hughes Medal]
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