James Watt International Medal

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[edit] James Watt Medals

Several awards are named after James Watt.

The James Watt International Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is awarded every two years to a mechanical engineer of any nationality, who is deemed worthy of the highest award the Institution can bestow and that a mechanical engineer can receive.[1]

The James Watt International Gold Medal. To commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of James Watt on 19 January 1736 - an event which was destined to bring about a revolution in the utilisation of power - the Institution of Mechanical Engineers award every two years a Gold Medal to an engineer of any nationality who is deemed worthy of the highest award the Institution can bestow and that a mechanical engineer can receive. In making the award, the Institution has sought the co-operation and advice of engineering Institutions and Societies in all parts of the world.

To be worthy to receive a medal struck in commemoration of one who was at one and the same time a scientist, an inventor and a producer, the recipient himself should be an engineer who has achieved international recognition both by his works as a mechanical engineer and by the ability with which he has applied science to the progress of mechanical engineering.

Recipients of the James Watt Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers are listed in full below.

Recipients of the James Watt Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers include:

Mr. Basil Wood (date of award 1980s?) for his work on Combined Heat and Power
Paul Kassabian. (2000). structural engineer with interests in design, dynamic control, and deployable structures.
Professor Sergio Pellegrino (2000). Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Specializes in deployable lightweight structures.
Choo Yoo Sang, J W Boh, and L Louca (2005).

According to http://www.t-telford.co.uk/journals/freepapers.asp, the James Watt Medal is Presented for the best paper having a substantial energy content.

From the Institution of Civil Engineers website: [2] The James Watt Medal is awarded for papers having a substantial mechanical engineering content. The medal, named after James Watt, the Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor who died in 1819, was introduced by Robert Stephenson (President of ICE in 1855 -1856) who recommended Council to acquire the dies of the medal from Joseph S Wyon in 1858.

[edit] Recipients of the International James Watt Medal

1937 Sir John Aspinall, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1939 Mr Henry Ford, nominated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1941 Professor Aurel Stodola, nominated by the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects, Czechoslovakia Society of Engineers, and the Engineering Institute of Canada.
1943 Mr Anthony George Maldon Michell, nominated by the Institution of Engineers, Australia, South African Institute of Engineers and the Engineering Institute of Canada.
1945 Dr Frederick Lanchester, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1947 Professor Stephen Timoshenko, nominated by the Swiss Society of Mechanical Engineers and Architects.
1949 Dr Frederik Ljungstrom, nominated by the Swedish Society of Engineers.
1951 Dr Hans Henrik Blache, nominated by the Danish Society of Engineers.
1953 Sir Harry Ricardo, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1955 Dr Igor Ivan Sikorsky, nominated by the American Society of Engineers.
1957 Professor Walther Bauersfeld, nominated by the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure.
1959 Sir Claude Gibb, nominated by the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and supported by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1961 Professor Dr Theodore von Karman, sponsored by the American Society of Engineers.
1963 Sir William Stanier, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers. English mechanical engineer and locomotive designer.
1965 Professor Sir Geoffrey Taylor, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1967 Academician Ivan Ivanovitch Artobolevskii, nominated by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
1969 Dr Hideo Shima, nominated by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1971 Dr Robert Rowe Gilruth, nominated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1973 The Rt Hon the Lord Hinton of Bankside, nominated by the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects.
1975 Professor Dr-Ing Siegfried Meurer, nominated by the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure.
1977 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, nominated by the New Zealand Institution of Engineers.
1979 Raymond Heacock, nominated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1981 Professor Jacob P Den Hartog, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers. (Professor emeritus and former head of the department of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1983 Sir Christopher Cockerell, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1985 Sir Hugh Ford, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1987 Sir Denis Rooke, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1989 John E Steiner, nominated by The Fellowship of Engineering.
1991 Soichiro Honda, nominated by The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
1993 Frederic J P d'Allest, nominated by the Comitedes Applications Academie des Sciences, France.
1995 Eiji Toyoda, nominated by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1997 Sydney Gillibrand, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
1999 Professor Sir Bernard Crossland, nominated by The Institution of Engineers of Ireland.
2001 Professor Duncan Dowson, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
2003 Sir Ralph Robins, nominated by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
2005 Leroy 'Skip' Fletcher, nominated by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.