IET Faraday Medal

{{about|the medal awarded by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and previously by the Institution of Electrical Engineers||Faraday Prize (disambiguation)}}

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| awarded_for = Awarded either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology or for lifetime achievement in science, engineering or technology.

| sponsor = Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institution of Electrical Engineers

| date = Since 1922

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The Faraday Medal is a top international medal awarded by the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (previously called the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)).[http://www.theiet.org/about/libarc/archives/institution-history/faraday-winners.cfm IET Archives] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201132517/http://www.theiet.org/about/libarc/archives/institution-history/faraday-winners.cfm |date=December 1, 2007 }}[http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/theme-print.jsp?articleid=93187 Oxford DNB thematic list]{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015111/http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/awards/medals/faraday.cfm|archivedate=2015-11-17|url=http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/awards/medals/faraday.cfm|publisher=theiet.org|location=London|title=IET Awards – Faraday Medal: Awards, prizes and scholarships within engineering and technology}} As one of the world's most prestigious awards in engineering, it is part of the IET Achievement Medals collection of awards.{{cite web|url=http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/awards/medals/achieve-medals.cfm|title=IET Achievement Medals}} The medal is named after the British physicist Michael Faraday, the father of electromagnetism.

Background

The Faraday Medal is the IET's highest honour and one of the world's most prestigious awards for engineers and scientists. Winners include ground-breaking pioneers and inventors. First awarded in 1922, it is one of the oldest medals still being awarded today. The top medal is awarded annually to distinguished individuals who either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology, without restriction as regards to nationality, country of residence or membership of the Institution. The award was established in 1922 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and is named after Michael Faraday. Each year, the recipient received his/her award at a ceremony held in London that is hosted by the IET.{{cite web|url= http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/ceremony/index.cfm|title=IET Awards ceremony}}

Winners

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Image:Oheaviside.jpg|Heaviside: Transmission line theory, H-step function, 1922

Image:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|Parsons: Invented the modern steam turbine, 1923

Image:J.J Thomson.jpg|Thomson: Discovered electrons, 1925

Image:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|Fleming: Invented vacuum tubes, 1928

Image:Sir Ernest Rutherford LCCN2014716719 - restoration1.jpg|Rutherford: Discovered the atomic nucleus, 1930

Image:Appleton.jpg|Appleton: Discovered the Appleton layer, 1946

Image:Cockcroft.jpg|Cockcroft: "Split" the atomic nucleus, 1955

Image:Zvorykin0.jpg|Zworykin involved with inventing television and electron microscope, 1965

Image:Maurice Vincent Wilkes 1980 (3).jpg|Wilkes: Built the first electronic computer, 1981

Image:Charles K. Kao cropped 2.jpg|Kao: Pioneered the development and use of fibre optics, 1989

Image:KnuthAtOpenContentAlliance.jpg|Knuth: Art of computer programming, 2011

Image:schouhamerimmink.jpg|Immink: Digital video and audio recording, 2015

Image:Bjarne-stroustrup (cropped).jpg|Stroustrup: Created C++, 2017

=First 50 Years (1922–1972)=

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1922 Oliver Heaviside
1923 The Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
1924 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
1925 Sir Joseph John Thomson
1926 Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
1927 Elihu Thomson
1928 Sir Ambrose Fleming
1929 Guido Semenza
1930 Sir Ernest Rutherford
1931 Charles Hesterman Merz
1932 Sir Oliver Lodge
1933 no award
1934 Sir Frank Edward Smith
1935 Frank Baldwin Jewett
1936 Sir William Henry Bragg
1937 André Blondel
1938 Sir John Francis Cleverton Snell
1939 William David Coolidge
1940 Alexander Russell
1941 Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming
1942 Pyotr Kapitsa
1943 Sir Archibald Page
1944 Irving Langmuir
1945 Sir Clifford Copland Paterson
1946 Sir Edward Victor Appleton
1947 Sir Leonard Pearce
1948 Mark Oliphant
1949 Charles Samuel Franklin
1950 Sir James Chadwick
1951 Thomas Eckersley
1952 Ernest Lawrence
1953 Sir Arthur Stanley Angwin
1954 Sir Isaac Shoenberg
1955 Sir John Cockcroft
1956 G W O Howe
1957 Waldemar Borgquist
1958 Sir Gordon Radley
1959 Luigi Emanueli
1960 Sir George Paget Thomson
1961 Julius Adams Stratton
1962 Sir Basil Schonland
1963 Pierre Marie Jean Ailleret
1964 Joseph Ronald Mortlock
1965 Vladimir Zworykin
1966 J A Ratcliffe
1967 H E M Barlow
1968 Leslie Herbert Bedford
1969 Philip Sporn
1970 Charles William Oatley
1971 Sir Martin Ryle
1972 F C Williams

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=Next 50 Years (1973–2023)=

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1973 Sir Nevill Mott
1974 George Millington
1975 John Millar Meek
1976 Thomas Otten Paine
1977 John Bertram Adams
1978 Erich Friedlander
1979 Robert Noyce
1980 Eric Ash
1981 Sir Maurice Wilkes
1982 Brian David Josephson
1983 William Alexander Gambling
1984 Alexander Lamb Cullen
1985 Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare
1986 Edwin Douglas Ramsay Shearman
1987 Sir David Evan Naunton Davies
1988 Cyril Hilsum
1989 Charles Kuen Kao
1990 Peter Lawrenson
1991 Alan Rudge
1992 Laszlo Solymar
1993 Alistair George James MacFarlane
1994 John Parnaby
1995 {{ill|John David Rhodes|lt=David Rhodes|qid=Q21165728}}
1996 Stewart Crichton Miller
1997 John Edwin Midwinter
1998 Roger Needham
1999 Patrick Arthur McKeown
2000 J. Michael Brady{{cite web|url=http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~jmb/|title=Sir Michael Brady, University of Oxford, UK}}
2001 Chris Harris
2002 Sir Robin Saxby{{cite web|url=https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/sir-robin-saxby-awarded-2002-faraday-medal|title=Sir Robin Saxby awarded 2002 Faraday Medal, 2002|access-date=11 March 2020|archive-date=1 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501224102/https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/sir-robin-saxby-awarded-2002-faraday-medal|url-status=dead}}
2003 Sir Richard Friend{{cite web|url=https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/friendr|title=Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge, UK|date=23 July 2013 }}
2004 Peter Mitchell Grant{{cite web|url=https://www.voltimum.co.uk/articles/26-03-2004-professor-wins-iees|title=Professor wins IEE's highest accolade, 2004|date=26 March 2004 }}
2005 Azim Premji
2006 John McCanny{{cite web|url=https://www.embedded.com/dsp-pioneer-awarded-faraday-medal/|title=DSP pioneer awarded Faraday Medal, 2006}}
2007 Steve Furber{{cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/pc-revolutionary-honoured-1004478|title=PC revolutionary honoured|date=18 September 2007 }}
2008 Josef Kittler{{cite web|url=https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/josef-kittler|title=Professor Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK}}
2009 Sir Martin Sweeting
2010 Donal Bradley
2011 Donald Knuth[http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/institution-of-engineering-and-technology/article/iet-professor-donald-knuth-to-be-awarded-prestigious-faraday IET: Professor Donald Knuth to be awarded prestigious Faraday Medal, Politics.co.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302062558/https://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/institution-of-engineering-and-technology/article/iet-professor-donald-knuth-to-be-awarded-prestigious-faraday |date=2 March 2020 }}, retrieved 16 May 2016.
2012 Leonardo Chiariglione
2013 Sir Michael Pepper{{cite web|url=https://www.dideo.ir/v/yt/X0l1diFGxIg/sir-michael-pepper-freng-frs-%7C-winner-of-the-iet|title=Sir Mike Pepper winner of IET Faraday Medal 2013}}
2014 Christofer Toumazou{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/160851/imperial-researcher-wins-institution-engineering-technologys/|title=Imperial researcher wins Institution of Engineering and Technology's top honour}}
2015 Kees Schouhamer Immink
2016 Andy Harter{{cite web|url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/news/alumnus-awarded-faraday-medal|title=Alumnus awarded Faraday medal, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge}}
2017 Bjarne Stroustrup{{cite web|url=https://www.cs.columbia.edu/2017/bjarne-stroustrup-awarded-2017-faraday-medal/|title=Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal}}
2018 - not awarded
2019 Sir Peter Knight
2020 Bashir Al-Hashimi{{Cite web|title=Our IET 2020 Prestige Medal winners|url=https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-scholarships/achievement-awards/achievement-medals/our-iet-2020-prestige-medal-winners/|access-date=27 February 2021|publisher=Institution of Engineering and Technology|language=en-US|archive-date=10 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410121022/https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-scholarships/achievement-awards/achievement-medals/our-iet-2020-prestige-medal-winners/|url-status=dead}}
2021 John E E Fleming{{Cite web|title=Our IET 2021 Prestige Medal winners|url=https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-scholarships/achievement-awards/achievement-medals/iet-achievement-medals-2021-winners/|publisher=Institution of Engineering and Technology|language=en-US}}
2023 Arogyaswami Paulraj