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This article is about the British Engineering award. For the "Kelvin Medal" awarded by the Institute of Physics, see Kelvin Prize.

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 providing a Kelvin Gold Medal to mark "a distinction in engineering work or investigation" by the Presidents of eight leading British Engineering Institutions. 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 Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) administered the prize. The Committee of Presidents considers recommendations received from similar bodies from all parts of the world. The first recipient was William Unwin.

Recipients

Year Name Ref Country Engineering Field
2013 Peter Davies  United Kingdom discipline of Fluid Mechanics, particularly Environmental Fluid Mechanics
2010
2007
2004 Sir David Neil Payne  United Kingdom Research into photonics, and its application to produce many of the key advances in optic fibre communications.
2001
1998 Duncan Dowson  United Kingdom Tri-Elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication; Bio-Tribology
1995 William Bonfield  United Kingdom Materials science
1992 Prof Sir Bernard Crossland  United Kingdom Mechanical Engineering
1989 John Boscawen Burland  South Africa Soil mechanics
1986 Sir Alan Howard Cottrell  United Kingdom Metallurgy
1983
1980
1977
1974 Charles Stark Draper  United States Control theory
1971 The Lord Penny  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  United Kingdom
1959 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor  United Kingdom Fluid dynamics
1956 Sir John Cockcroft  United Kingdom Atomic Physics
1953 Chalmers Jack Mackenzie  Canada Atomic Engineering
1950 Dr Theodore von Kármán  Hungary Aerospace engineering
1947 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle  United Kingdom
1944 Not awarded
1941 not awarded
1938 Sir Joseph John Thomson  United Kingdom Sub Atomic Physics
1935 Sir John Ambrose Fleming  United Kingdom Electrical Engineering
1932 1st Marquis of Marconi  Italy Electrical and Radio Engineering
1929 André-Eugène Blondel  France Physicist
1926 Sir Charles Algernon Parsons  United Kingdom Steam Power Engineering
1923 Dr. Elihu Thomson  United States Electrical Engineering
1920 William Cawthorne Unwin  United Kingdom Civil Engineering

See also

References

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