Davy Medal

Since 1877, the Davy Médaille is a scientific distinction decreed annually by the Royal Society (British Academy of Science). This medal of Bronze struck with the effigy of Sir Humphry Davy aims at rewarding for the scientists for exceptional work in the field of chemistry.

List prizes winner

1877 to 1899

1877 : Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
1878: Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet
1879: Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
1880: Charles Friedel
1881: Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
1882 : Dmitri Mendeleïev and Lothar Meyer
1883: Marcellin Berthelot and Julius Thomsen
1884: Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
1885: Jean Served Stas
1886: Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
1887: John AR Newlands
1888: William Crookes
1889: William Henry Perkin
1890: Hermann Emil Fischer
1891: Victor Meyer
1892: François-Marie Raoult
1893: Jacobus Henricus van' T Hoff and Joseph Achilles Beautiful the
1894: Per Theodor Cleve
1895 : William Ramsay
1896: Henri Moissan
1897: John Hall Gladstone
1898: Johannes Wislicenus
1899 : Edward Schunck

1900 to 1919

1900 : Guglielmo Koerner
1901 : George Downing Living room
1902: Svante August Arrhenius
1903: Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
1904: William Henry Perkin
1905: Albert Ladenburg
1906: Rudolf Fittig
1907 : Edward Williams Morley
1908: William has Tilden
1909: James Dewar
1910: Theodore William Richards
1911: Henry Edward Armstrong
1912: Otto Wallach
1913 : Raphael Meldola
1914 : William Jackson Pope
1915: Paul Sabatier
1916: Henry Chatelier
1917: Albin Haller
1918: F Stanley Kipping
1919: Percy F. Frankland

1920 to 1939

1920: Charles T Heycock
1921: Philippe has Guye
1922: Jocelyn Field Thorpe
1923 : Herbert Brereton Baker
1924: Arthur George Perkin
1925: James Irvine
1926: James Walker
1927: Arthur Amos Noyes
1928 : Frederick George Donnan
1929: Gilbert Newton Lewis
1930: Robert Robinson
1931: Arthur Lapworth
1932 : Richard Willstätter
1933: William Hobson Millets
1934: Walter Norman Haworth
1935: Arthur Harden
1936 : William Arthur Bone
1937: Hans Fischer
1938: George Barger
1939: James William McBain

1940 to 1959

1940 : Harold Clayton Urey
1941 : Henry Drysdale Dakin
1942: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1943 : Ian Morris Heilbron
1944: Robert Robertson
1945: Robert Adams
1946: Christopher Kelk Ingold
1947 : Linus Pauling
1948 : Edmund Langley Hirst
1949 : Alexander Robert 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 George Wreyford Norrish
1959: Robert Burns Woodward

1960 to 1979

1960 : John Monteath Robertson
1961: Derek Harold Richard Barton
1962: Harry Julius Emeleus
1963 : Edmund John Bowen
1964: Melvin Calvin
1965: Harold Warris Thompson
1966: Ewart Jones
1967: Vladimir Prelog
1968: John Warcup Cornforth and George Joseph Popjak
1969: Frederick Sydney Dainton
1970: Charles Alfred Coulson
1971: George To carry
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 to 1999

1980 : Alan Woodworth Johnson
1981: Ralph Alexander Raphael
1982 : Michael James Steuart Dewar
1983: Duilio Arigoni
1984 : Sam Edwards
1985: Jack Lewis
1986: AG Ogston
1987: Alec John Jeffreys
1988: John A. Pople
1989: Francis Gordon Albert Stone
1990: Keith Usherwood Ingold
1991 : JR Knowles
1992 : has Carrington
1993: Jack E Baldwin
1994: John Meurig Thomas
1995: MLH Green
1996 : Geoffrey Wilkinson
1997: Jean-Marie Lehn
1998: Alan Roy Fersht
1999 : Malcolm Harold Chisholm

2000 -

2000 : Steven Victor Ley
2001: Alastair Ian Scott
2002 : Neil Bartlett
2003 : Roger Parsons
2004: Takeshi Oka
2006 : Martin Pope
2007: John Simons

External bonds

Davy Medal on the site of Royal Society

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