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Hughes Medal

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Awarded by the Royal Society for "an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications." Named for David Hughes, inventor of the microphone.

1902
J. J. Thomson
1903
Johann Hittorf
1904
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
1905
Augusto Righi
1906
Hertha Ayrton
1907
Ernest Howard Griffiths
1908
Eugen Goldstein
1909
Richard Glazebrook
1910
John Ambrose Fleming
1911
C. T. R. Wilson
1912
William Duddell
1913
Alexander Graham Bell
1914
John Townsend
1915
Paul Langevin
1916
Elihu Thomson
1917
Charles Glover Barkla
1918
Irving Langmuir
1919
Charles Chree
1920
Owen Willans Richardson
1921
Niels Bohr
1922
Francis W. Aston
1923
Robert A. Millikan
1924
(no award)
1925
Frank Edward Smith
1926
Henry B. Jackson
1927
William D. Coolidge
1928
Maurice de Broglie
1929
Hans Geiger
1930
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1931
William Bragg
1932
James Chadwick
1933
Edward Victor Appleton
1934
Manne Siegbahn
1935
Clinton Davisson
1936
Walter Schottky
1937
Ernest Lawrence
1938
John Cockcroft and Ernest T. S. Walton
1939
George Paget Thomson
1940
Arthur H. Compton
1941
Nevill F. Mott
1942
Enrico Fermi
1943
Mark Oliphant
1944
George Finch
1945
Basil Schonland
1946
John Randall
1947
Frédéric Joliot
1948
Robert Watson-Watt
1949
Cecil Powell
1950
Max Born
1951
Hendrik Kramers
1952
Philip Dee
1953
Edward Bullard
1954
Martin Ryle
1955
Harrie Massey
1956
Frederick Lindemann
1957
Joseph Proudman
1958
Edward da Costa Andrade
1959
Alfred Pippard
1960
Joseph Pawsey
1961
Alan Cottrell
1962
Brebis Bleaney
1963
Frederic Williams
1964
Abdus Salam
1965
Denys Wilkinson
1966
Nicholas Kemmer
1967
Kurt Mendelssohn
1968
Freeman Dyson
1969
Nicholas Kurti
1970
David Bates
1971
R. Hanbury Brown
1972
Brian D. Josephson
1973
Peter B. Hirsch
1974
Peter Fowler
1975
Richard Dalitz
1976
Stephen Hawking
1977
Antony Hewish
1978
William Cochran
1979
Robert Williams
1980
Francis Farley
1981
Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble
1982
Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine
1983
John Ward
1984
Roy Kerr
1985
Tony Skyrme
1986
M. M. Woolfson
1987
Michael Pepper
1988
A. Howie and M. J. Whelan
1989
John Stewart Bell
1990
Thomas George Cowling
1991
Philip Moon
1992
Michael Seaton
1993
George Isaak
1994
Robert Chambers
1995
David Shoenberg
1996
Amyand Buckingham
1997
Andrew Lang
1998
Raymond Hide
1999
Alec Boksenberg
2000
C. N. R. Rao
2001
John Pethica
2002
Alexander Dalgarno
2003
Peter P. Edwards
2004
John Clarke
2005
Keith Moffatt
2006
Michael Kelly
2007
Artur Ekert



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