Faraday Medal

The Faraday Medal is a medal awarded by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (previously called the Institution of Electrical Engineers)

The bronze medal is awarded (either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology) without restriction as regards nationality, country of residence or membership of the Institution. It is awarded not more frequently than once a year. The award was established in 1922 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and is named for Michael Faraday.

Recipients

  • 1922 Oliver Heaviside
  • 1923 The Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
  • 1924 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
  • 1925 Sir Joseph John Thomson
  • 1926 Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
  • 1927 Elihu Thomson
  • 1928 Sir Ambrose Fleming
  • 1929 Guido Semenza
  • 1930 Sir Ernest Rutherford
  • 1931 Charles Hesterman Merz
  • 1932 Sir Oliver Lodge
  • 1933 no award
  • 1934 Sir Frank Edward Smith
  • Faraday Medal (electrochemistry)

    The Faraday Medal is awarded by the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Since 1977, it honors distinguished electrochemists working outside of the UK and Republic of Ireland for their research advancements.

    The laureates are:

  • 1977 Veniamin Grigorievich Levich (19171987)
  • 1981 John O’M. Bockris
  • 1983 Jean-Michel Savéant
  • 1985 Michel Armand
  • 1987 Heinz Gerischer (19191994)
  • 1991 David A. J. Rand, CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry, Port Melbourne
  • 1994 Stanley Bruckenstein, University at Buffalo
  • 1995 Michael J. Weaver (19472002), Purdue University
  • 1996 Adam Heller, University of Texas
  • 1998 Wolf Vielstich, Universität Bonn
  • 1999 Philippe Allongue, CNRS
  • 2000 Alan Maxwell Bond (b. 1946), Monash University
  • 2001 Michael Grätzel, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • 2002 Henry S. White, University of Utah
  • 2003 Dieter M. Kolb (19422011), Universität Ulm
  • 2004 Daniel A. Scherson, Case Western Reserve University
  • 2005 Robert Mark Wightman, University of North Carolina
  • Faraday Medal and Prize

    The Faraday Medal and Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Institute of Physics in experimental physics, one of the Institute's Gold medals.

    From 1914 to 1966 it took the form of the Guthrie Lecture after when it was replaced by the Guthrie Medal and Prize, in memory of Frederick Guthrie, founder of the Physical Society (which merged with the Institute of Physics in 1960). In 2008 the award was renamed the Faraday Medal and Prize, which is awarded annually "for outstanding contributions to experimental physics, to a physicist of international reputation in any sector" and known as the Faraday medal of the Institute of Physics. The medal is silver gilt and accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.

    Medallists and Lecturers

    Faraday medallists

  • 2015 Henning Sirringhaus, "For transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as our ability to exploit them"
  • 2014 Alexander Giles Davies and Edmund Linfield, "For their outstanding and sustained contributions to the physics and technology of the far-infrared (terahertz) frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum"
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