Mullard Award

{{short description|Royal Society Mullard Award}} {{Infobox award | name = Mullard Award | subheader = | current_awards = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | year = 1967 | awarded_for = made to individuals whose work has the potential to make a contribution to national prosperity | sponsor = {{Plainlist| * Royal Society * Mullard Limited}} | date =  | location = | country =United Kingdom | acts = | reward = | website = {{URL|https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/mullard-award/}} | network = | runtime = | ratings = | previous = | main = | next = }}

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."<ref name="mull">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name="mull"/><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Mullard medallists== {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="align:left;" |- !width="4"|Year !width="390"class="unsortable"|Name !width="800" class="unsortable"|Rationale !width="1" class="unsortable"|Notes |- |1967 ||George Douglas Hutton Bell ||"for his contribution to agricultural production in breeding Proctor barley" || <ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1968 ||Alastair Pilkington || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |1969 ||Richard Milroy Clarkson ||"for outstanding advances in aircraft project conception which he has made and, in particular, the initiation of the HS 125 aircraft" || <ref>{{cite book |year=1974 |title=Who's Who of British Engineers |page=91 |publisher=MacLaren and Sons |edition=4 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1969-09-27|title=Mullard Award By Royal Society|page=8|newspaper=The Times|location=London|issue=57676}}</ref> |- |1970 ||Stephen William Kenneth Morgan, Stephen Esslemont Woods, John Lumsden, Bennett Gregory Perry and Leslie Jack Derham || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |1971 ||Frank Ralph Batchelor, Frank Peter Doyle, John Herbert Charles Naylor and George Newbolt Rolinson || ||| <ref>{{cite book |last=McMillan |first=James |year=1987 |title=The Way it Changed: 1951-1975 |page=174 |publisher=Kimber }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

|- |1972 ||William Robert Boon || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |1973 ||Charles William Oatley || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref name="wdict" /><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1974 ||Frank Brian Mercer || || <ref>{{cite book |year=1981 |title=GC & HTJ. |page=197 |publisher=Haymarket Publishing }}</ref> |- |1975 ||John Bingham || || <ref name="whoswho">{{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 }}</ref> |- |1976 ||George Herbert Hutchings || || <ref name="wdict">{{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 }}</ref>{{efn|Hutchings became the first American to receive the award.<ref>{{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}}</ref>}} |- |1977 ||Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield || || <ref>{{cite book |year=1977 |title=The Radio and Electronic Engineer |page=585 |publisher=Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers |edition=46 }}</ref> |- |1978 ||James W. Black || || <ref name="whoswho" /> |- |1979 ||Ernest Martin Ellis and Geoffrey Light Wilde || || <ref>{{cite book |year=1979 |title=Nature |page=33 |publisher=Macmillan Journals |edition=281 }}</ref> |- |1980 ||Edward Penley Abraham || || <ref>{{cite book |year=1984 |title=The International Who' Who, 1984-85 |page=7 |publisher=Europa Publications |isbn=0-905118-97-9 |edition=48 }}</ref> |- |1981 ||Michael Elliott, Norman Frank James and David Allen Pulman || || <ref>{{cite book |year=1981 |title=Report of the Agricultural Research Council |page=68 |publisher=HMSO |isbn=0-10-200882-5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee |page=141 |publisher=Lawes Agricultural Trust |edition=1 }}</ref> |- |1982 ||Martin Francis Wood, John Michael Woodgate and Peter Edward Hanley || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1983 ||John William Fozard and Ralph Spenser Hooper || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1984 ||Clive Marles Sinclair || || <ref>{{cite book |year=2003 |title=The Houghton Mifflin dictionary of biography |page=1406 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=0-618-25210-X }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1985 ||David Kalderon || || <ref>{{cite book |year=1983 |title=Journal |page=50 |publisher=Society of Engineers |edition=76 }}</ref> |- |1986 ||John Bedford Stenlake || || <ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1987 ||Michael Alan Ford || || {{citation needed|date=April 2013}} |- |1988 ||Ralph Louis Wain || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |1989 ||David Richard Sweatman Hedgeland || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1990 ||Peter Mansfield, John Rowland Mallard and James McDonald Strahan Hutchinson || || <ref>{{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}}</ref>{{rp|139}} |- |1991 ||David Jack and Roy Thomas Brittain || || {{citation needed|date=April 2013}} |- |1992 ||Robert William Ernest Shannon || || <ref>{{cite book |title=The Chemical Engineer |page=11 |publisher=Institution of Chemical Engineers |edition=524 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1993 ||Allen 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" || <ref>{{Cite news|date=1993|title=Royal Society|page=18|newspaper=The Times|location=London|issue=64693}}</ref> |- |1994 ||John White, Brad Amos, Richard Durbin and Michael Fordham || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1098/rsnr.1995.0010 | jstor = 531890 | last1 = Atiyah | first1 = M. |author-link=Michael Atiyah | 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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |1995 ||Kenneth Richardson || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |1996 ||Ian McKittrick || || <ref>{{cite book |year=1997 |title=Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research |page=795 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |edition=56 }}</ref> |- |1997 ||Patrick Humphrey || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=102820&sectioncode=26 |last=Williams |first=Lynne |title=Awards |date=12 September 1997 |publisher=Times Higher Education |accessdate=2009-04-20}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |1998 ||Graham Richards || ||<ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |1999 ||John Rhodes || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |2000 ||Martin Sweeting || || <ref>{{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 }}</ref> |- |2003 ||Henning Sirringhaus || ||<ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2004 ||Jeremy Baumberg || ||<ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2005 ||Ben G. Davis || ||<ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2007 ||Chris Freeman || || <ref name="bbc">{{cite news |title=Scientist's climate change award |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/6404003.stm |publisher=BBC |date=28 February 2007 |access-date=27 March 2009 }}</ref> |- |2009 ||Shankar Balasubramanian || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2014 || Demis Hassabis || || <ref>{{Cite web|title=Demis Hassabis|url=https://hai.stanford.edu/people/demis-hassabis|access-date=2022-01-10|publisher=Stanford University}}</ref> |- |2016 || Steve 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" || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2018 || Florin Udrea and Julian Gardner || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2019 || Hagan Bayley || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2020 || Stephen Jackson || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2021 || Stephen G. Davies || || <ref>{{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}}</ref> |- |2022 || Graeme Milligan || ''for 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'' || |- |2025 || Jason Hallett || ''for pioneering work on the development of ionic liquids as commercially relevant solvents in biorefining and the circular economy'' || |}

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==External links== *{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/mullard-award/|title=Royal Society Mullard Award|publisher=The Royal Society}}

Category:Awards established in 1967 Category:Awards of the Royal Society Category:1967 in science