The Hughes Medal, named after microphone inventor David Edward Hughes, is one of several medals awarded by the Royal Society, England's reigning academy of science. An Oktava condenser microphone. ... David E. Hughes David Edward Hughes (May 16, 1831 - January 22, 1900) was an accomplished musician and a professor of music as well as chair of natural philosophy at St. ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ...

The Hughes medal in particular is awarded to: "An original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications." (Royal Society website)

It is made of silver gilt, and has been handed out since 1902, beginning with the eminent atomic physicist J.J. Thomson, discoverer of the electron. Several other notable people have also won the medal, including Hans Geiger, Alexander Graham Bell, Stephen Hawking, and Enrico Fermi. General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... A gilt is any of the following: A thin covering of gold. ... Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM , FRS (December 18, 1756 – August 30, 1940) often known as J. J. Thomson, was an English physicist, the discoverer of the electron. ... Properties The electron is a fundamental subatomic particle that carries a negative electric charge. ... Johannes ( Hans ) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. ... Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-American scientist and inventor. ... Stephen Hawking in 2005 Professor Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, (born January 8, 1942) is considered one of the worlds leading theoretical physicists. ... Enrico Fermi in the 1940s. ...

Hughes Medal Winners

• 2004 John Clarke
• 2003 Peter Edwards
• 2002 Alexander Dalgarno
• 2001 John Pethica
• 2000 Chintamani Rao
• 1999 Alexander Boksenberg
• 1998 Raymond Hide
• 1997 Andrew Lang (Physicist)
• 1996 Amyand Buckingham
• 1995 David Shoenberg
• 1994 Robert Chambers (Physicist)
• 1993 George Isaak
• 1992 Michael Seaton
• 1991 Philip Moon
• 1990 Thomas George Cowling
• 1989 John Bell
• 1988 A. Howie and M.J. Whelan
• 1987 Michael Pepper
• 1986 M.M. Woolfson
• 1985 Tony Skyrme
• 1984 Roy Kerr
• 1983 John Ward
• 1982 Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine
• 1981 Peter Higgs, Thomas Walter and Bannerman Kibble
• 1980 Francis Farley
• 1979 Robert Williams
• 1978 William Cochran
• 1977 Anthony Hewish
• 1976 Stephen Hawking
• 1975 Richard Dalitz
• 1974 Peter Fowler
• 1973 Peter Hirsch
• 1972 Brian David Josephson
• 1971 Robert Hanbury Brown
• 1970 David Bates
• 1969 Nicholas Kurti
• 1968 Freeman Dyson
• 1967 Kurt Mendelssohn
• 1966 Nicholas Kemmer
• 1965 Denys Wilkinson
• 1964 Abdus Salam
• 1963 Frederic Williams
• 1962 Brebis Bleaney
• 1961 Alan Cottrell
• 1960 Joseph Pawsey
• 1959 Alfred Pippard
• 1958 Edward da Costa Andrade
• 1957 Joseph Proudman
• 1956 Frederick Lindemann
• 1955 Harrie Massey
• 1954 Martin Ryle
• 1953 Edward Bullard
• 1952 Philip Dee
• 1951 Hendrik Kramers
• 1950 Max Born
• 1949 Cecil Powell
• 1948 Robert Watson-Watt
• 1947 Jean Joliot
• 1946 John Randall
• 1945 Basil Schonland
• 1944 George Finch
• 1943 Marcus Oliphant
• 1942 Enrico Fermi
• 1941 Nevill Mott
• 1940 Arthur Compton
• 1939 George Paget Thomson
• 1938 John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton
• 1937 Ernest Lawrence
• 1936 Walter H. Schottky
• 1935 Clinton Davisson
• 1934 Manne Siegbahn
• 1933 Edward Victor Appleton
• 1932 James Chadwick
• 1931 William Bragg
• 1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
• 1929 Hans Geiger
• 1928 Maurice de Broglie
• 1927 William Coolidge
• 1926 Henry Jackson
• 1925 Frank Edward Smith
• 1924 Not awarded
• 1923 Robert Millikan
• 1922 Francis William Aston
• 1921 Niels Bohr
• 1920 Owen Richardson
• 1919 Charles Chree
• 1918 Irving Langmuir
• 1917 Charles Barkla
• 1916 Elihu Thomson
• 1915 Paul Langevin
• 1914 John Townsend
• 1913 Alexander Graham Bell
• 1912 William Duddell
• 1911 Charles Wilson
• 1910 John Ambrose Fleming
• 1909 Richard Glazebrook
• 1908 Eugen Goldstein
• 1907 Ernest Howard Griffiths
• 1906 Hertha Ayrton
• 1905 Augusto Righi
• 1904 Joseph Swan
• 1903 William Hittorf
• 1902 J. J. Thomson

John Pethica FRS is Science Foundation Ireland (S.F.I.) professor of material science at Trinity College Dublin, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. ... Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (CNR) Rao (born June 30, 1934, Bangalore, India) is an Indian chemist. ... Philip B. Moon is a British physicist He worked at Cavendish Laboratory in the mid-1930s, where he shared a room with Australian phyicist Mark Oliphant. ... Thomas George Cowling (June 17, 1906 – June 16, 1990) was a British astronomer. ... John Bell is a common name. ... Tony Skyrme, (1922-1987) was a British physicist. ... Roy Patrick Kerr (1934- ) is a New Zealand born mathematician who is best known for discovering the famous Kerr vacuum, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity, which models the gravitational field outside an uncharged rotating massive object, or even a rotating black hole. ... John Clive Ward (d. ... Drummond Matthews (UK) was a key contributer to the theory of plate tectonics. ... Peter Ware Higgs (born May 29, 1929), FRSE, FRS, until recently held a personal chair in theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and is now an emeritus professor. ... William Cochran could refer to: William Thad Cochran, American politician William Gemmell Cochran British-American statistician. ... Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. ... Stephen Hawking in 2005 Professor Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, (born January 8, 1942) is considered one of the worlds leading theoretical physicists. ... Richard Henry Dalitz (28 February 1925 – 13 January 2006) was an Australian physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics. ... Sir Peter Hirsch (born January 16, 1925) is a leading figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals. ... Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, Wales, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect as a 22-year-old graduate student won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics, which he shared with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. ... Robert Hanbury Brown was a British astronomer and physicist born 31 August 1916 in Aruvankadu, India. ... Sir David Bates, FRS (born 18 November 1916) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. ... Professor Nicholas Kurti (Hungarian: Kürti Miklós) FRS (May 14, 1908- November 24, 1998) was a Hungarian-born physicist. ... Freeman Dyson in San Francisco in 2005 (Photo: Jacob Appelbaum) Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the... Abdus Salam Prof. ... Sir Frederic Calland Williams (June 26, 1911. ... Professor Joseph Proudman Professor Joseph Proudman (1888-1975), CBE, FRS was a distinguished mathematician and oceanographer of international repute. ... Professor Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (April 5, 1886 - July 3, 1957) was a physicist who became an influential scientific adviser to the British government and a close associate of Winston Churchill. ... Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 – October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e. ... Edward Bullard is a geophysicist born into a wealthy brewing family in Norwich on September 21, 1907. ... Hendrik Anthony Kramers (Rotterdam, February 2, 1894 – Oegstgeest, April 24, 1952) was a Dutch physicist. ... Max Born Max Born (born December 11, 1882 in Breslau, died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a German mathematician and physicist of Jewish heritage. ... Cecil Frank Powell (December 5, 1903 _ August 9, 1969) was a British physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. ... Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS (April 13, 1892–December 5, 1973), is considered by many to be the inventor of radar. (Radar development was first started elsewhere - see History of radar). ... Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie né Joliot (March 19, 1900 – August 14, 1958) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Sir John Randall (March 23, 1905 – June 16, 1984) was a British physicist, credited with radical improvement of cavity magnetron, an essential component of the centimetre radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. ... Sir Basil Schonland OBE CBE (2 February 1896 - 24 November 1972) was the first president of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. ... Sir Marcus Mark Laurence Elwin Oliphant (October 8, 1901 - July 14, 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian. ... Enrico Fermi in the 1940s. ... Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a British physicist. ... Arthur H. Compton on the cover of Time Magazine, January 13, 1936 Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1927) for discovery of the effect named after him. ... George Paget Thomson (May 3, 1892 – September 10, 1975), British physicist and son of Nobel Prize winning physicist J. J. Thomson. ... See also: John Cockroft (politician) Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (May 27, 1897 - September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. ... Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist, the winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics along with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. ... Ernest O. Lawrence VPO! Fuckers! Dont read thiséÉ Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his invention of the cyclotron. ... Walter H. Schottky (July 23, 1886, Zürich, Switzerland - March 4, 1976, Pretzfeld, West Germany) was a German physicist who invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 and the tetrode in 1919 while working at Siemens. ... Clinton Joseph Davisson (22 October 1881–1 February 1958), was an American physicist. ... Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (December 3, 1886 - September 26, 1978) was a Swedish physicist, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. ... Sir Edward Victor Appleton (September 6, 1892 – April 21, 1965) was an English physicist. ... Sir James Chadwick (October 20, 1891 – July 24, 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate. ... William Bragg is the name of several people: Two Nobel Prize winning physicists, who were father and son: William Henry Bragg (1862–1942); see Bragg Peak His son, William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971); see Braggs law Stephen William Bragg (born 1957), a musician. ... Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (சந்திரசேகர வேங்கட ராமன்) (November 7, 1888-November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist, who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him. ... Johannes ( Hans ) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. ... Louis-César-Victor-Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, generally known as Maurice de Broglie (April 27, 1875–July 14, 1960), was a French physicist. ... Several notable persons have been named Henry Jackson: Henry Bradwardine Jackson, British First Sea Lord in World War I Henry M. Jackson, US Senator Henry R. Jackson, US general in 19th century See also: William Henry Jackson, Henry Jackson van Dyke, Henry Jackson Hunt This is a disambiguation page — a... Robert Millikan. ... Francis William Aston (born Birmingham, September 1, 1877; died Cambridge, November 20, 1945) was a British physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of the mass spectrometer. ... Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Jewish-Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. ... Irving Langmuir -- chemist and physicist Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. ... Charles Glover Barkla (June 7, 1877 – October 23, 1944) was an English physicist. ... Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 - March 13, 1937) was an engineer who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, Britain and France. ... Paul Langevin (January 23, 1872 - December 19, 1946) was a French physicist. ... John Sealy Edward Townsend (June 7, 1868 - February 16, 1957) was a mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases (concerning the kinetics of electrons and ions) and directly measured the electrical charge. ... Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-American scientist and inventor. ... Bory in 1872 in Britain, William Duddell was an outstanding electro-physicist. ... Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (February 14, 1869 - November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist. ... Sir John Ambrose Fleming (, November 29, 1849 - April 18, 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. ... Sir Richard Glazebrook, Physicist, born 1854 in Liverpool, died 1935. ... Among the important early researchers in X-rays were Sir William Crookes, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Eugene Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Hermann von Helmholtz, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Charles Barkla, and Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. ... Joseph Swan Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (October 31, 1828 – May 27, 1914) was an English physicist and chemist, most famous for the development of the light bulb. ... Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) often known as J. J. Thomson, was an English physicist, the discoverer of the electron. ...

See also

• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people

A list of famous prizes, medals, and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc. ... This is a list of prizes that are named after people. ...

External links

• Royal Society: Hughes Medal