Davy Medal

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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.

[edit] 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.

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

[edit] External links

• Royal Society official website
• RS list of medalists, 1877-1899
• List of medalists, 1900-1989
• List of medalists, 1990-present

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