Davy Medal
The Davy Medal is a bronze medal that has been awarded annually by the Royal Society in London since 1877. Its recipient receives the medal “for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry.” The medal is named after Humphry Davy, the 19th century chemist, and comes with a gift of £1000.
Recipients
The medal has often been awarded to pairs of people as well as to individuals. It was first awarded in 1877 to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff for their work on spectrum analysis. A list of recipients by year follows:
| 1877 |
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff |
1878 |
Louis Paul Cailletet & Raoul Pictet |
| 1879 |
Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran |
1880 |
Charles Friedel |
| 1881 |
Adolf von Baeyer |
1882 |
Dmitri Mendeleev & Lothar Meyer |
| 1883 |
Marcellin Berthelot and Julius Thomsen |
1884 |
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe |
| 1885 |
Jean Servais Stas |
1886 |
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac |
| 1887 |
John A. R. Newlands |
1888 |
Sir William Crookes |
| 1889 |
William Henry Perkin |
1890 |
Emil Fischer |
| 1891 |
Victor Meyer |
1892 |
Francois Marie Raoult |
| 1893 |
Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff and J. A. Le Bel |
1894 |
Per Theodor Cleve |
| 1895 |
Sir William Ramsay |
1896 |
Henri Moissan |
| 1897 |
John Hall Gladstone |
1898 |
Johannes Wislicenus |
| 1899 |
Edward Schunck |
1900 |
Guglielmo Koerner |
| 1901 |
George Downing Living |
1902 |
Svante Arrhenius |
| 1903 |
Pierre Curie and Marie Curie |
1904 |
William Henry Perkin |
| 1905 |
Albert Ladenburg |
1906 |
Rudolf Fittig |
| 1907 |
Edward Williams Morley |
1908 |
William A. Tilden |
| 1909 |
James Dewar |
1910 |
Theodore W. Richards |
| 1911 |
Henry Edward Armstrong |
1912 |
Otto Wallach |
| 1913 |
Raphael Meldola |
1914 |
William Jackson Pope |
| 1915 |
Paul Sabatier |
1916 |
Henri le Chatelier |
| 1917 |
Albin Haller |
1918 |
F. Stanley Kipping |
| 1919 |
Percy F. Frankland |
1920 |
Charles T. Heycock |
| 1921 |
Philippe A. Guye |
1922 |
Jocelyn Field Thorpe |
| 1923 |
Herbert B. Baker |
1924 |
Arthur George Perkin |
| 1925 |
James Irvine |
1926 |
James Walker |
| 1927 |
Arthur Amos Noyes |
1928 |
Frederick George Donnan |
| 1929 |
Gilbert Newton Lewis |
1930 |
Sir Robert Robinson |
| 1931 |
Arthur Lapworth |
1932 |
Richard Willstätter |
| 1933 |
William Hobson Mills |
1934 |
Norman Haworth |
| 1935 |
Arthur Harden |
1936 |
William Arthur Bone |
| 1937 |
Hans Fischer |
1938 |
George Barger |
| 1939 |
James William McBain |
1940 |
Harold C. Urey |
| 1941 |
Henry Drysdale Dakin |
1942 |
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
| 1943 |
Ian Morris Heilbron |
1944 |
Robert Robertson |
| 1945 |
Robert Adams |
1946 |
Christopher Kelk Ingold |
| 1947 |
Linus Pauling |
1948 |
Edmund Langley Hirst |
| 1949 |
Alexander R. Todd |
1950 |
John Simonsen |
| 1951 |
Eric Rideal |
1952 |
Alexander Robertson |
| 1953 |
John Lennard-Jones |
1954 |
James Wilfred Cook |
| 1955 |
Harry Work Melville |
1956 |
Robert Downs Haworth |
| 1957 |
Kathleen Lonsdale |
1958 |
Ronald G. W. Norrish |
| 1959 |
Robert B. Woodward |
1960 |
John Monteath Robertson |
| 1961 |
Derek Barton |
1962 |
Harry Julius Emeleus |
| 1963 |
Edmund John Bowen |
1964 |
Melvin Calvin |
| 1965 |
Harold Warris Thompson |
1966 |
Ewart Jones |
| 1967 |
Vladimir Prelog |
1968 |
John Cornforth and George Joseph Popjak |
| 1969 |
Frederick Sydney Dainton |
1970 |
Charles Alfred Coulson |
| 1971 |
George Porter |
1972 |
Arthur John Birch |
| 1973 |
John Stuart Anderson |
1974 |
James Baddiley |
| 1975 |
Theodore Morris Sugden |
1976 |
Rex Edward Richards |
| 1977 |
Alan Rushton Battersby |
1978 |
Albert Eschenmoser |
| 1979 |
Joseph Chatt |
1980 |
Alan Woodworth Johnson |
| 1981 |
Ralph Alexander Raphael |
1982 |
Michael James Steuart Dewar |
| 1983 |
Duilio Arigoni |
1984 |
Sam Edwards |
| 1985 |
Jack Lewis |
1986 |
Alexander George Ogston |
| 1987 |
Alec John Jeffreys |
1988 |
John A. Pople |
| 1989 |
Francis Gordon Albert Stone |
1990 |
Keith Usherwood Ingold |
| 1991 |
Jeremy R. Knowles |
1992 |
A. Carrington |
| 1993 |
Jack E. Baldwin |
1994 |
John Meurig Thomas |
| 1995 |
M. L. H. Green |
1996 |
Geoffrey Wilkinson |
| 1997 |
Jean-Marie Lehn |
1998 |
Alan Roy Fersht |
| 1999 |
Malcolm Harold Chisholm |
2000 |
Steven Victor Ley |
| 2001 |
Alastair Ian Scott |
2002 |
Neil Bartlett |
| 2003 |
Roger Parsons |
2004 |
Takeshi Oka |
| 2005 |
Chris Dobson |
2006 |
nominations still open |
External links
| Medals of the Royal Society: |
| Copley |
| Buchanan - Darwin - Davy - Gabor - Hughes - Leverhulme - Royal - Rumford - Sylvester |
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