Hector Memorial Medal

The Hector Medal (formerly known as the Hector Memorial Medal)[1] is a science award given by the Royal Society of New Zealand in memory of Sir James Hector to researchers working in New Zealand. It is awarded annually in rotation for different sciences – currently there are three: chemical sciences; physical sciences; mathematical and information sciences. It is given to a researcher who "has undertaken work of great scientific or technological merit and has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the particular branch of science."[2] It was previously rotated through more fields of science – in 1918 they were: botany, chemistry, ethnology, geology, physics (including mathematics and astronomy), zoology (including animal physiology).[1] For a few years it was awarded biennially – it was not awarded in 2000, 2002 or 2004.[3]

In 1991 it was overtaken by the Rutherford Medal as the highest award given by the Royal Society of New Zealand.[4]

The obverse of the medal bears the head of James Hector and the reverse a Māori snaring a huia.[5][6] The last confirmed sighting of a living huia predates the award of the medal by three years.[7]

Recipients

Year Recipient[8] Field
1912 Leonard Cockayne
1913 Thomas Hill Easterfield
1914 Elsdon Best
1915 Patrick Marshall
1916 Ernest Rutherford
1917 Charles Chilton
1918 Thomas Frederic Cheeseman
1919 Philip Robertson
1920 Stephenson Percy Smith
1921 Robert Speight
1922 Coleridge Farr
1923 George Hudson
1924 Donald Petrie
1925 Bernard Aston
1926 Henry Devenish Skinner
1927 Charles Cotton
1928 Duncan Sommerville
1929 G. M. Thomson
1930 John Ernest Holloway
1931 William Percival Evans
1932 Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck)
1933 John Marwick, William Noel Benson
1934 Charles Ernest Weatherburn
1935 William Blaxland Benham
1936 Walter Oliver
1937 John Reader Hosking
1938 Herbert Williams
1939 John Arthur Bartrum
1940 Donald Bannerman Macleod
1941 Harold John Finlay
1942 Harry Allan
1943 Lindsay Heathcote Briggs
1944 Johannes Carl Andersen
1945 John Henderson
1946 Henry Forder
1947 Arthur William Baden Powell
1948 G. H. Cunningham
1949 Robert Anthony Robinson
1950 Ernest Beaglehole
1951 Francis John Turner
1952 Keith Edward Bullen
1953 Lancelot Eric Richdale
1954 Lucy Cranwell
1955 Francis Brian Shorland
1956 Roger Duff
1957 Harold Wellman
1958 Alister George McLellan
1959 Barry Fell
1960 Edward Edinborough Chamberlain
1961 Harry Bloom
1962 Ralph Piddington
1963 Charles Alexander Fleming
1964 Derek Frank Lawden
1965 Richard Dell
1966 John Thorpe Holloway
1967 Richard Conrad Cambie
1968 Gilbert Edward Archey
1969 Douglas Saxon Coombs
1970 Brian Garner Wybourne
1971 Ira James Cunningham
1972 Ted Bollard
1973 Michael Philip Hartshorn
1974 Herbert Dudley Purves
1975 Robert Cecil Hayes
1976 John Newton Dodd
1977 Campbell Stuart Wemyss Reid
1978 Richard Ellis Ford Matthews
1979 Leon Francis Phillips
1980 Graham Liggins
1981 Trevor Hatherton
1982 Roy Kerr
1983 Raymond Robert Forster
1984 Roderick Leon Bieleski
1985 Peter Bernard David de la Mare
1986 Robin Wayne Carrell
1987 Albert James Ellis
1988 Daniel Frank Walls
1989 Patricia Bergquist
1990 Peter Wardle
1991 Warren R. Roper
1992 Roger Curtis Green
1993 Richard Irving Walcott
1994 Geoffrey Ernest Stedman
1995 Robert Dudley Jolly
1996 John C. Butcher
1997 Edward Neill Baker
1998 Paul Callaghan, Jeffery Lewis Tallon
1999 George Arthur Frederick Seber
2000 No award
2001 Peter Schwerdtfeger
2003 Kenneth John Dallas MacKenzie
2005 Ian H. Witten
2006 Richard Furneaux
2007 Timothy George Haskell
2008 Gaven Martin
2009 Peter Steel Chemistry
2010 Grant Williams Chemistry
2011 Rod Downey Mathematics
2012 Margaret Brimble Chemistry
2013 Richard Blaikie Physics
2014 Marston Conder[9] Mathematics
2015 Ian Brown[10] Chemistry

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Hector Memorial Research Fund". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 50. 1918. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  2. ↑ "Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Background of the Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Rutherford Medal « Medals & Awards « Funds, Medals & Competitions « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  5. ↑ "Papers Past — Press — 20 December 1912 — NEWS OF THE DAY". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1912-12-20. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  6. ↑ "Design « Hector Medal « Medals & Awards « Funds, Medals & Competitions « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  7. ↑ Barrie, Heather; Robertson, Hugh (2005). The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand (Revised Edition). Viking. ISBN 978-0-14-302040-0.
  8. ↑ "Recipients". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  9. ↑ "Royal Society of New Zealand recognises achievements of researchers". Royal Society of New Zealand. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Spotlight on top New Zealand researchers" (Press release). Royal Society of New Zealand. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
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