MacRobert Award

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The MacRobert Award has been presented every year since 1969 by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The award seeks to recognise innovative ideas in engineering. The award is named in honour of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (1880 - 1954).[1]

Below is a complete list of winners:

1969- Freeman, Fox and Partners - For the super structure of the Severn Bridge and Rolls-Royce - For the Pegasus Engine (Joint Winners)
1970- British Petroleum - For new surveying techniques
1971- The Gas Council - For innovative manufacturing processes
1972- EMI Limited - For advances in diagnosing Brain disease using X-rays
1973- Dunlop - For the Denovo tyre
1974 - ICI Limited (Agricultural division)
1975 - Westland Helicopters and British Railways Board (Joint Winners)
1976 - No award.
1977 - Royal Signals Research Establishment and Malvern Instruments Limited
1978 - Pilkington Brothers Limited
1979 - Post Office Telecommunications
1980 - Johnson Matthey Group
1981 - Lucas CAV Limited
1982 - Kaldair Limited
1983 - Ruston Gas Turbines
1984 - Netlon Limited
1985 - The National Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Rolls-Royce (Joint Winners)
1986 - Oxford Instruments Group
1987 - Renishaw plc
1988 - Quantel Limited
1989 - British Gas
1990 - The Science and Engineering Research Council
1991 - Rover Group and Defence Research Agency and GEC Sensors (Joint Winners)
1992 - BP International
1993 - ICI Klea
1994 - Soil Machine Dynamics
1995 - British Gas plc and Gill Electronic R&D
1996 - Rolls-Royce plc - For the Trent aero-engine
1997 - Whipp & Bourne (A division of FKI plc)
1998 - Norton Healthcare Limited
1999 - Buro Happold for the Millennium Dome design
2000 - Johnson Matthey
2001 - Sensaura
2002 - CDT − For Light-emitting polymers
2003 - Randox Laboratories Ltd.
2004 - IBM − For the WebSphere MQ
2005 - CSR plc
2006 - Optos plc
2007 - Process Systems Enterprise
2008 - Bionic Hand, the i-LIMB^[1]^[2]