Davy Medal

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Davy Medal

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Bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society annually since 1887 "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry." Named for 19th century chemist Humphry Davy.

1877 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff

1878 Louis Paul Cailletet & Raoul Pictet

1879 Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran

1880 Charles Friedel

1881 Adolf von Baeyer

1882 Dmitri Mendeleev & Lothar Meyer

1883 Marcellin Berthelot and Julius Thomsen

1884 Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

1885 Jean Servais Stas

1886 Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac

1887 John AR Newlands

1888 Sir William Crookes

1889 William Henry Perkin

1890 Emil Fischer

1891 Victor Meyer

1892 Francois Marie Raoult

1893 Jacobus H. van 't Hoff and J. A. Le Bel

1894 Per Theodor Cleve

1895 Sir William Ramsay

1896 Henri Moissan

1897 John Hall Gladstone

1898 Johannes Wislicenus

1899 Edward Schunck

1900 Guglielmo Koerner

1901 George Downing Living

1902 Svante Arrhenius

1903 Pierre Curie and Marie Curie

1904 William Henry Perkin

1905 Albert Ladenburg

1906 Rudolf Fittig

1907 Edward Williams Morley

1908 William A Tilden

1909 James Dewar

1910 Theodore W. Richards

1911 Henry Edward Armstrong

1912 Otto Wallach

1913 Raphael Meldola

1914 William Jackson Pope

1915 Paul Sabatier

1916 Henri le Chatelier

1917 Albin Haller

1918 F. Stanley Kipping

1919 Percy F. Frankland

1920 Charles T. Heycock

1921 Philippe A. Guye

1922 Jocelyn Field Thorpe

1923 Herbert B. Baker

1924 Arthur George Perkin

1925 James Irvine

1926 James Walker

1927 Arthur Amos Noyes

1928 Frederick George Donnan

1929 Gilbert Newton Lewis

1930 Sir Robert Robinson

1931 Arthur Lapworth

1932 Richard Willstätter

1933 William Hobson Mills

1934 Norman Haworth

1935 Arthur Harden

1936 William Arthur Bone

1937 Hans Fischer

1938 George Barger

1939 James William McBain

1940 Harold C. Urey

1941 Henry Drysdale Dakin

1942 Sir Cyril Hinshelwood

1943 Ian Morris Heilbron

1944 Robert Robertson

1945 Roger Adams

1946 Christopher Kelk Ingold

1947 Linus Pauling

1948 Edmund Langley Hirst

1949 Alexander R. 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 G. W. Norrish

1959 Robert B. Woodward

1960 John Monteath Robertson

1961 Derek Barton

1962 Harry Julius Emeleus

1963 Edmund John Bowen

1964 Melvin Calvin

1965 Harold Warris Thompson

1966 Ewart Jones

1967 Vladimir Prelog

1968 John Cornforth and George Joseph Popjak

1969 Frederick Sydney Dainton

1970 Charles Alfred Coulson

1971 George Porter

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 Alan Woodworth Johnson

1981 Ralph Alexander Raphael

1982 Michael James Steuart Dewar

1983 Duilio Arigoni

1984 Sam Edwards

1985 Jack Lewis

1986 A. G. Ogston

1987 Alec John Jeffreys

1988 John A. Pople

1989 Francis Gordon Albert Stone

1990 Keith Usherwood Ingold

1991 Jeremy R. Knowles

1992 A. Carrington

1993 Jack E. Baldwin

1994 John Meurig Thomas

1995 M. L. H. Green

1996 Geoffrey Wilkinson

1997 Jean-Marie Lehn

1998 Alan Roy Fersht

1999 Malcolm Harold Chisholm

2000 Steven Victor Ley

2001 Alastair Ian Scott

2002 Neil Bartlett

2003 Roger Parsons

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