Subject Awards
Recipients of the Gabor medal and prize
2008 Doreen Stoneham
Oxford Authentication Ltd
For her successful establishment of a world-leading company that authenticates ceramics for the art world. Full citation
Medallists - Duddell Medal and Prize
2007 Richard Nelmes
University of Edinburgh
For pioneering new techniques and instrumentation that have transformed high-pressure structural science.
2006 Peter Wells
Cardiff University
For his work on the application of ultrasound to medicine.
2005 Geoff Hall (Imperial College, London), Peter Sharp (RAL/CERN) and Alessandro Marchioro (CERN)
For their development of ‘radiation hard’ analogue electronics for silicon detectors enabling their use as a means of precision
detection and measurement of charged particle production at the Large Hadron Collider.
2004 James Hough
2003 Stephen Myers
2002 Federico Capasso
2001 James Kazimierz Gimzewski
2000 Ondrej L Krivanek
1999 Rex Watton
1998 Meirion Francis Lewis
1997 Timothy Berners-Lee
1996 Martin Pengton Seah
1995 Alfred Rodney Adams
1994 Christopher John Stokes Damerell
1993 Michael Anthony Flemming
1992 Peter Faraday Smith
1991 Kenneth Firth and David Jonathan Hubbard
1990 John Edwin Field
1989 Michael J Downs
1988 Peter Mansfield
1987 Colin George Windsor
1986 Bryan Peter Kibble
1985 Colin Edward Webb
1984 Peter George Lecomber
1983 Ian Robert Young
1982 Simon van der Meer
1981 Bruce Arthur Joyce
1980 Albert Victor Crewe
1979 John Riddle Sandercock
1978 Edward George Sydney Paige
1977 Ronald Ferguson Pearson
1976 Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
1975 Ernst Ruska
1973 Albert Franks
1971 Vernon Ellis Cosslett and Kenneth Charles Arthur Smith
1969 Charles William Oatley
1967 Keith Davy Froome and Robert Howard Bradsell
1965 Hugh Alastair Gebbie
1963 Bertram Neville Brockhouse
1961 John Bertram Adams
1960 Reginald Victor Jones
1959 George William Hutchinson and Gordon George Scarrott
1958 Leonard Charles Jackson
1957 Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams
1956 John Gilbert Daunt
1955 Rudolf Kompfner
1954 Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
1953 William Sucksmith
1952 Cecil Waller
1951 Albert Beaumont Wood
1950 Donald William Fry
1949 Edwin Herbert Land
1948 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1947 Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
1946 Karl Weissenberg
1945 John Turton Randall
1944 Francis William Aston
1943 John Guild
1942 Cecil Reginald Burch
1941 William David Collidge
1940 Ernest Orlando Lawrence
1938 Robert William Paul
1937 Hans Geiger
1936 Walter Guyton Cady
1935 Charles Vickery Drysdale
1934 W Ewart Williams
1933 Harold Dennis Taylor
1932 Wolfgang Gaede
1931 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1930 J Ambrose Fleming
1929 Albert Abraham Michelson
1928 Charles Edouarde Guillaume
1927 Frank E Smith
1926 Frank Twyman
1925 Albert Campbell
1924 Charles Vernon Boys
1923 Hugh Longbourne Callendar
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