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Davy Medal



The Davy Medal is a bronze medal that has been awarded annually by London's Royal Society since 1877. Its recipient receives the medal "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry." The medal, with its accompanying purse of GB£1,000, is named after the nineteenth-century chemist, Humphry Davy.

Davy medalists

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. Recipients have been, by year:

1877 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff 1878 Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet
1879 Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran 1880 Charles Friedel
1881 Adolf von Baeyer 1882 Dmitri Mendeleev and 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, Jr.
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 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 Martin Pope
2007 John Simmons


Medals of the Royal Society:
Copley
Buchanan - Darwin - Davy - Gabor - Hughes - Leverhulme - Royal - Rumford - Sylvester
 
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