Mullard Award

{{short description|Royal Society Mullard Award}}

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The Mullard Award is awarded annually by the Royal Society to a person who has "an outstanding academic record in any field of natural science, engineering or technology and whose contribution is currently making or has the potential to make a contribution to national prosperity in Britain."{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1775|title=The Royal Society Mullard Award (1967)|date=2004|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate=2009-04-13}} It was established in 1967, and has been awarded to more people at once than any other Royal Society medal, with five individuals receiving the award in 1970.{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1778|title=Mullard archive winners 1989 - 1967|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate=2009-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609052912/http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1778|archive-date=2008-06-09}} The award is a silver gilt medal, which comes with a £2,000 prize and a £1,500 grant to be used for travel and attending conferences.{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/awards/mullard-award/|title=Mullard archive winners|publisher=Royal Society|accessdate=2012-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519150150/http://royalsociety.org/awards/mullard-award/|archive-date=2012-05-19}}

Mullard medallists

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1967George Douglas Hutton Bell"for his contribution to agricultural production in breeding Proctor barley"{{cite book |last=Handley-Taylor |first=Geoffrey |author2=Ernest Kay |title=Dictionary of International Biography |publisher=International Biographical Centre |edition=7th |year=1971 |page=92 |oclc=53722295 }}{{Cite news|date=1967-07-20|title=Council plan to save trees|page=16|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93356605/council-plan-to-save-trees/|access-date=2022-01-24|via=Newspapers.com}}
1968Alastair Pilkington{{cite book |last=Norberg |first=Ulla M |year=1979 |title=Morphology of the Wings, Legs and Tail of Three Coniferous Forest Tits, the Goldcrest, and the Treecreeper in Relation to Locomotor Pattern and Feeding Station Selection |page=77 |publisher=The Royal Society |isbn=0-85403-109-X }}
1969Richard Milroy Clarkson"for outstanding advances in aircraft project conception which he has made and, in particular, the initiation of the HS 125 aircraft"{{cite book |year=1974 |title=Who's Who of British Engineers |page=91 |publisher=MacLaren and Sons |edition=4 }}{{Cite news|date=1969-09-27|title=Mullard Award By Royal Society|page=8|newspaper=The Times|location=London|issue=57676}}
1970Stephen William Kenneth Morgan, Stephen Esslement Woods, John Lumsden, Bennett Gregory Perry and Leslie Jack Derham{{cite book |last=West |first=David Richard Frederick |author2=J. E. Harris |year= 1999|title= Metals and the Royal Society|page=84 |publisher=Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining |isbn=1-86125-028-2 }}
1971Frank Ralph Batchelor, Frank Peter Doyle, John Herbert Charles Naylor and George Newbolt Rolinson| {{cite book |last=McMillan |first=James |year=1987 |title=The Way it Changed: 1951-1975 |page=174 |publisher=Kimber }}{{cite journal|title=1975 Royal Society Mullard Award|journal=Electronics and Power|volume=21|issue=6|pages=404|issn=0013-5127|doi=10.1049/ep.1975.0462|author=Anon|year=1975}}
1972William Robert Boon{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Carol |year=1986 |title=ICI: The Company that Changed Our Lives |page=151 |publisher=Hutchinson |isbn=0-09-167300-3 }}
1973Charles William Oatley{{cite book |last=Breton |first=Bernard C. |author2=Peter W. Hawkes |author3=Dennis McMullan |author4=Kenneth C. A. Smith |year=2004 |title=Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics: Sir Charles Oatley and the Scanning Electron Microscope |page=519 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=0-12-014775-0 }}{{cite journal | doi = 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1996.1050648.x | volume=183 | title=ObituariesJohn Norrie McArthur, 1901-1996 | journal=Journal of Microscopy | year=1996 | issue=2 | pages=181–186}}
1974Frank Brian Mercer{{cite book |year=1981 |title=GC & HTJ. |page=197 |publisher=Haymarket Publishing }}
1975John Bingham{{cite book |last=Sleeman |first=Elizabeth |year=2003 |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond/page/169 169] |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-85743-217-7 |edition=67 |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond/page/169 }}
1976George Herbert Hutchings{{cite book |year=1979 |title=World Dictionary of Awards and Prizes |page=[https://archive.org/details/worlddictionaryo00lond/page/169 169] |publisher=Europa |isbn=0-905118-32-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/worlddictionaryo00lond/page/169 }}{{efn|Hutchings became the first American to receive the award.{{Cite news|date=1976-08-12|title=Names in the News|page=31|work=The News and Observer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93358931/names-in-the-news/|access-date=2022-01-24|via=Newspapers.com}}}}
1977Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield{{cite book |year=1977 |title=The Radio and Electronic Engineer |page=585 |publisher=Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers |edition=46 }}
1978James W. Black
1979Ernest Martin Ellis and Geoffrey Light Wilde{{cite book |year=1979 |title=Nature |page=33 |publisher=Macmillan Journals |edition=281 }}
1980Edward Penley Abraham{{cite book |year=1984 |title=The International Who' Who, 1984-85 |page=7 |publisher=Europa Publications |isbn=0-905118-97-9 |edition=48 }}
1981Michael Elliott, Norman Frank James and David Allen Pulman{{cite book |year=1981 |title=Report of the Agricultural Research Council |page=68 |publisher=HMSO |isbn=0-10-200882-5 }}{{cite book |title=Report of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee |page=141 |publisher=Lawes Agricultural Trust |edition=1 }}
1982Martin Francis Wood, John Michael Woodgate and Peter Edward Hanley{{Cite journal|year=1982|title=People and Events|url=https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9112/33/10/033|journal=Physics Bulletin|volume=33|issue=10|pages=377–380|doi=10.1088/0031-9112/33/10/033|issn=0031-9112|url-access=subscription}}
1983John William Fozard and Ralph Spenser Hooper{{Cite journal|title=Announcements|year=1983|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=305|issue=5929|pages=81|doi=10.1038/305081a0|bibcode=1983Natur.305...81. |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}
1984Clive Marles Sinclair{{cite book |year=2003 |title=The Houghton Mifflin dictionary of biography |page=1406 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=0-618-25210-X }}{{Cite news|date=1987-11-08|title=Computer mogul rebounds|page=37|work=Record-Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93358065/computer-mogul-rebounds/|access-date=2022-01-24|via=Newspapers.com}}
1985David Kalderon{{cite book |year=1983 |title=Journal |page=50 |publisher=Society of Engineers |edition=76 }}
1986John Bedford Stenlake{{cite web|url=http://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/announcement/obituaries-and-tributes-29-april-2006/10022102.article|title=Obituaries and tributes (29 April 2006)|publisher=The Pharmaceutical Journal|accessdate=2009-03-27}}{{cite web|url=http://www.psnc.org.uk/data/files/PharmacyContractandServices/ClinicalGovernance/pj_20060429_society.pdf|title=The Pharmaceutical Journal|publisher=Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain|pages=519|accessdate=2009-03-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007050233/http://www.psnc.org.uk/data/files/PharmacyContractandServices/ClinicalGovernance/pj_20060429_society.pdf|archive-date=2011-10-07}}
1987Michael Alan Ford{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
1988Ralph Louis Wain{{cite news |title=U.K.'s Royal Society Adds Members |url=http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/8702/ |publisher=The Scientist |date=5 September 1988 |accessdate=27 March 2009 }}
1989David Richard Sweatman Hedgeland{{cite web|url=http://www.monotype.co.uk/DynamicPage/View.cfm?PageName=tl_1982_91|title=The Monotype Chronicles|publisher=Monotype Imaging|accessdate=2009-03-27}}
1990Peter Mansfield, John Rowland Mallard and James McDonald Strahan Hutchinson{{Cite journal|date=1990-07-21|title=News|journal=BMJ: British Medical Journal|volume=301|issue=6744|pages=137–142|doi=10.1136/bmj.301.6744.137|issn=0959-8138|pmc=1663532|pmid=2390597}}{{rp|139}}
1991David Jack and Roy Thomas Brittain{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
1992Robert William Ernest Shannon{{cite book |title=The Chemical Engineer |page=11 |publisher=Institution of Chemical Engineers |edition=524 }}{{Cite journal|last=Radali|first=B. H.|year=1992|title=Reports and Surveys|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/robotica/article/abs/reports-and-surveys/283EFDF138D553770630D0B626DDB798|journal=Robotica|language=en|volume=10|issue=6|pages=479–484|doi=10.1017/S0263574700005804|s2cid=251232493 |issn=1469-8668|url-access=subscription}}
1993Allen Hill, Monika Green and Anthony Cass"in recognition of their to the translation of bioelectrochemical research into the successful launch of molecular sensors for medical use"{{Cite news|date=1993|title=Royal Society|page=18|newspaper=The Times|location=London|issue=64693}}
1994John White, Brad Amos, Richard Durbin and Michael Fordham{{cite web |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007051801 |title=University of Cambridge |publisher=Admin.cam.ac.uk |accessdate=2009-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818153137/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007051801 |archive-date=2007-08-18 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1098/rsnr.1995.0010 | jstor = 531890 | last1 = Atiyah | first1 = M. | title = Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, O.M., Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1994 | journal = Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London | volume = 49 | issue = 1 | pages = 141–151 | year = 1995| s2cid = 202575185 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/tcss/brad_amos_191006.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080229181007/http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/tcss/brad_amos_191006.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-02-29 |title=TCSS Trinity College Science Society - Prof Harry Kroto FRS |publisher=Trin.cam.ac.uk |date=2006-10-19 |accessdate=2009-05-23}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.union.wisc.edu/ceneuro/CEN%20Orals.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716084927/http://www.union.wisc.edu/ceneuro/CEN%20Orals.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}
1995Kenneth Richardson{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1098/rsnr.1996.0009 | jstor = 531844 | last1 = Atiyah | first1 = M. | last2 = Rotblat | first2 = J. | last3 = Jacobs | first3 = P. A. | title = Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, O.M., Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 1995 | journal = Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London | volume = 50 | issue = 1 | pages = 101–113 | year = 1996| s2cid = 159336670 }}
1996Ian McKittrick{{cite book |year=1997 |title=Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research |page=795 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |edition=56 }}
1997Patrick Humphrey{{cite web |url=http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/lifesci/medical/synopses/humphery.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070529132728/http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/lifesci/medical/synopses/humphery.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 May 2007 |title=Oxford Brookes University: Medical Video Archive: Professor Patrick Humphrey |date=6 August 1997 |location=Oxford, England |publisher=Oxford Brookes University |accessdate=2009-04-20 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=102820§ioncode=26 |last=Williams |first=Lynne |title=Awards |date=12 September 1997 |publisher=Times Higher Education |accessdate=2009-04-20}}{{Cite journal | first1 = K.| last2 = Klein| last3 = Lindner | first2 = W. | first3 = W.| title = Time to reassess chiral aspects of β-adrenoceptor antagonists Clinical evidence for harmful effects of the non-β-blocking d-enantiomers| last1 = Stoschitzky| journal = Trends in Pharmacological Sciences| volume = 18| issue = 9| pages = 306–307| year = 1997| pmid = 9345845| doi = 10.1016/S0165-6147(97)90649-0}}
1998Graham Richards{{cite web|url=http://www2.maths.ox.ac.uk/olsm/colloquia/richards.html |title=Oxford Life Science Modelling (OLSM) |publisher=University of Oxford |accessdate=2009-04-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212213223/http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/olsm/colloquia/richards.html |archive-date=February 12, 2007 }}
1999John Rhodes{{cite book |last=Thai |first=Herb |author2=Paul Eitner |year=2003 |title=IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium digest |page=1 |publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |isbn=0-7803-7695-1 |edition=1 }}
2000Martin Sweeting{{cite news |first=Harriet |last=Swain |title=Glittering prizes |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=153424§ioncode=26 |publisher=Times Higher Education |date=15 September 2000 |accessdate=27 March 2009 }}
2003Henning Sirringhaus{{cite web|url=http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2005/05/20/32081/a-passion-for-plastic.htm|title=A passion for plastic|last=Yeates|first=Harry|date=20 May 2005|publisher=Electronics Weekly|accessdate=2009-04-13}}
2004Jeremy Baumberg{{cite web|url=http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2004/nov/04_183.shtml|title=Nanotechnology expert honoured by Royal Society|date=22 November 2004|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=2009-04-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607063925/http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2004/nov/04_183.shtml|archive-date=7 June 2011}}
2005Ben G. Davis{{cite web|url=http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dplb0149/news/index.html|title=The Ben Davis Group - In the News|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=2009-04-13}}
2007Chris Freeman{{cite news |title=Scientist's climate change award |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/6404003.stm |publisher=BBC |date=28 February 2007 |accessdate=27 March 2009 }}
2009Shankar Balasubramanian{{cite web|url=http://www.maps.leeds.ac.uk/The%20Royal%20Society%20awards%202009.pdf|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110401102650/http://www.maps.leeds.ac.uk/The%20Royal%20Society%20awards%202009.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 April 2011|title=The Royal Society Awards 2009|accessdate=13 August 2010}}
2014Demis Hassabis{{Cite web|title=Demis Hassabis|url=https://hai.stanford.edu/people/demis-hassabis|access-date=2022-01-10|publisher=Stanford University}}
2016Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson"for their distinguished contributions to the design and analysis of the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) microprocessor in the 1980s, which is now used in mobile phones and other portable electronic devices throughout the world"{{Cite web|title=Manchester professor wins prestigious Royal Society award|url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/manchester-professor-wins-prestigious-royal-society-award/|date=2016-07-19|access-date=2022-01-10|publisher=University of Manchester}}
2018Florin Udrea and Julian Gardner{{Cite web|date=2018-07-24|title=Professor recognised with prestigious award from The Royal Society|url=http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-recognised-prestigious-award-royal-society|access-date=2022-01-10|publisher=University of Cambridge}}
2019Hagan Bayley{{Cite web|title=Four of Oxford's leading scientists scoop Royal Society awards|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-07-18-four-oxford%E2%80%99s-leading-scientists-scoop-royal-society-awards|date=2019-07-18|access-date=2022-01-10|publisher=University of Oxford}}
2020Stephen Jackson{{Cite web|last=Grant|first=Rhys|title=Steve Jackson wins Royal Society Mullard Award|url=https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/steve-jackson-wins-royal-society-mullard-award|date=2020-08-06|access-date=2022-01-10|publisher=University of Cambridge}}
2021Stephen G. Davies{{Cite web|title=Steve Davies RS award|url=https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/article/steve-davies-rs-award|date=2021-08-25|access-date=2022-01-10|publisher=University of Oxford}}
2022Graeme Milliganfor his global leadership in pharmacological and translational studies, his successful "spinning-out" of academic research and his longstanding underpinning support for the bio-pharmaceutical industry

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