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The '''Davy Medal''' is awarded annually by the [[Royal Society]] for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry".<ref name="Main">{{citation | title = The Davy Medal | url = http://royalsociety.org/Davy-Medal/ | publisher = Royal Society | accessdate = 2011-03-31}}.</ref>
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The '''Davy Medal''' is awarded annually by the [[Royal Society]] since 1877 for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry".<ref name="Main">{{citation | title = The Davy Medal | url = http://royalsociety.org/Davy-Medal/ | publisher = Royal Society | accessdate = 2011-03-31}}.</ref> The medal is in bronze, depicting a bust of [[Humphry Davy]], and is accompanied by a cash gift, currently £1000 (about €1200).<ref name="Main"/>
  
 
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! Year !! Recipient(s) !! Citation
 
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| 2010 || [[Carol Robinson]] || for her ground-breaking and novel use of mass spectrometry for the characterisation of large protein complexes.<ref name="Main"/>
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| 2009 || [[Jeremy Sanders]] || for his pioneering contributions to several fields, most recently to the field of dynamic combinatorial chemistry at the forefront of supramolecular chemistry.<ref name="Main"/>
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|-
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| 2008 || [[Fraser Stoddart]] || for his contributions in molecular technology. His work bridges the gap between chemistry and the scientific and engineering challenges of nanoelectromechanical systems.
 +
|-
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| 2007 || [[John Simons]] || for his many innovative experimental contributions to a broad area of chemical physics, including molecular reaction dynamics, molecular spectroscopy and most recently, biophysical chemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 2006 || [[Martin Pope]] || for his pioneering work in the field of molecular semiconductors which has now become a large and important area of semiconductor science and technology.
 +
|-
 +
| 2005 || [[Chris Dobson]] || for his work on the application of NMR and other structural methods for studying protein folding and misfolding, especially the formation of amyloid fibrils, leading to novel insights on protein structure and folding.
 +
|-
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| 2004 || [[Takeshi Oka]] || for his many and varied contributions to molecular spectroscopy and its applications, particularly to astronomy.
 +
|-
 +
| 2003 || [[Roger Parsons]] || for his distinguished career in electochemistry. He developed the method of preparing, for the first time, clean and well-defined metal surfaces and putting them into contact with the electrolyte without contamination.
 +
|-
 +
| 2002 || [[Neil Bartlett]] || for his research exploring the highest oxidation limits of the less oxidizable elements, primarily using elemental flourine. He has exposed the new chemistry of the noble gases and new procedures for attaining high oxidation state limits across the elements of the periodic table.
 +
|-
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| 2001 || [[Alastair Ian Scott]] || for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of biosynthetic pathways, and in particular for his work on vitamin B12. He is a world leader in his area and the impact of his discoveries are likely to have a significant effect on the way natural product chemistry progresses into the future.
 +
|-
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| 2000 || [[Steven Victor Ley]] || in recognition of his invention of new synthetic methods applied to the synthesis of complex natural products including those from insects, micro-organisms and plants. Among his most outstanding successes have been the synthesis of avermectin B1a, tetronasin, the milbemycins and indanomycin as well as his important development of short, practical syntheses of oligosaccharides.
 +
|-
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| 1999 || [[Malcolm Harold Chisholm]] || in recognition of his leading work in inorganic chemistry, particularly his major impact on the chemistry of transition metals and his pioneering research on the unique triply metal-metal bonded dimolybdenum and ditungsten dialkylamides, alkoxides and alkyls, and for the use of these compounds in further important syntheses.
 +
|-
 +
| 1998 || [[Alan Roy Fersht]] || in recognition for his pioneering work on the analysis of proteins by combining the methods and ideas of physical-organic chemistry with those of protein engineering thus illuminating such processes as enzymatic catalysis, protein folding, protein-protein interactions and those macromolecule interactions in general that are dominated by the chemistry of the noncovalent bond.
 +
|-
 +
| 1997 || [[Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn]] || in recognition of his work on supramolecular chemistry, on self-assembling molecules and on chemical devices.
 +
|-
 +
| 1996 || [[Geoffrey Wilkinson]] || in recognition of his contribution to organotransition metal chemistry and the development of homogeneous catalysis and his work on hydroformylation.
 +
|-
 +
| 1995 || [[M. L. H. Green]] || in recognition of his contribution to organometallic chemistry with particular application to catalytic reactions.
 +
|-
 +
| 1994 || [[John Meurig Thomas]] || for his pioneering studies of solid-state chemistry, and for the major advances he has made in the design of new materials for heterogeneous catalysis.
 +
|-
 +
| 1993 || [[Jack E. Baldwin]] || distinguished for his contributions to bio-organic chemistry, in particular to an understanding of the biosynthesis of beta-lactam antibodies.
 +
|-
 +
| 1992 || [[A. Carrington]] || distinguished for the determination and characterization of the molecular spectra of transient species.
 +
|-
 +
| 1991 || [[J. R. Knowles]] || in recognition of his contributions to mechanistic chemistry integrated with enzymology, particularly the application of chemical methods to solve fundamental biological problems of recognition and catalysis.
 +
|-
 +
| 1990 || [[Keith Usherwood Ingold]] || for pioneering the quantitative study of free radical reactions in solution, in glasses and in living organisms, particularly using electron magnetic resonance.
 +
|-
 +
| 1989 || [[Francis Gordon Albert Stone]] || In recognition of his many distinguished contributions to organometallic chemistry, including the discovery that species containing carbon-metal of metal-metal multiple bonds are versatile reagents for synthesis of cluster compounds with bonds between different transition elements.
 +
|-
 +
| 1988 || [[J. A. Pople]] || In recognition of his wide-ranging contributions to theoretical chemistry, especially his development and application of techniques for the computation of molecular wave-functions and properties.
 +
|-
 +
| 1987 || [[Alec John Jeffreys]] || In recognition of his contributions to the chemistry of human DNA - in particular the discovery and exploitation of hypervariable satellites in the human genome.
 +
|-
 +
| 1986 || [[A. G. Ogston]] || In recognition of his early seminal proposal of the ways enzymes deal asymmetrically with symmetrical substrates and his later quantitative analysis of macromolecule interactions which elucidated polymer exclusion effects.
 +
|-
 +
| 1985 || [[Jack Lewis]] || For his outstanding work on the structure and reactivity of metal cluster compounds, including pioneering work on carbido and hydrido derivatives, and pi-donor organic molecules.
 +
|-
 +
| 1984 || [[Sam Edwards]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the theoretical basis of thermodynamic aspects of polymer chemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 1983 || [[Duilio Arigoni]] || In recognition of his distinguished creativity in the fields of biosynthesis and bioorganic stereochemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 1982 || [[Michael James Steuart Dewar]] || In recognition of his distinguished studies of the mechanisms of a wide range of chemical reactions based on semi-empirical wave mechanical calculations.
 +
|-
 +
| 1981 || [[Ralph Alexander Raphael]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to organic synthesis and in particular his ingenious applications of acetylenic intermediates.
 +
|-
 +
| 1980 || [[Alan Woodworth Johnson]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the chemistry of natural products including vitamin B12 porphyrins, plant germination factors and insect hormones and pheromones.
 +
|-
 +
| 1979 || [[Joseph Chatt]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to transition metal chemistry and the understanding of catalysis involving ligating molecules such as olefins or dinitrogen.
 +
|-
 +
| 1978 || [[Albert Eschenmoser]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to modern synthetic organic chemistry, well illustrated by his impressive total synthesis of vitamin B12.
 +
|-
 +
| 1977 || [[Alan Rushton Battersby]] || In recognition of his outstanding and internationally recognized contributions to biosynthesis - his meticulous and logical unravelling of the complex pathways by which alkaloids and porphyrins are elaborated in vivo.
 +
|-
 +
| 1976 || [[Rex Edward Richards]] || In recognition of his outstanding contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its application to chemical and biological problems.
 +
|-
 +
| 1975 || [[Theodore Morris Sugden]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to physical chemistry including particularly the reactions occurring in flames.
 +
|-
 +
| 1974 || [[James Baddiley]] || In recognition of his distinguished researches on coenzyme A and studies of the constituents of bacterial cell walls.
 +
|-
 +
| 1973 || [[John Stuart Anderson]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to chemistry especially on the structural investigation of imperfect surfaces and non-stoichiometric materials.
 +
|-
 +
| 1972 || [[Arthur John Birch]] || In recognition of his distinguished biosynthetic studies of organic natural products and his development of new reagents for reduction processes.
 +
|-
 +
| 1971 || [[George Porter]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to our understanding of chemical reactions.
 +
|-
 +
| 1970 || [[Charles Alfred Coulson]] || In recognition of his distinguished work in theoretical chemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 1969 || [[Frederick Sydney Dainton]] || In recognition of his distinguished work on the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
 +
|-
 +
| 1968 || [[John Warcup Cornforth]]<br/>[[George Joseph Popjak]] || In recognition of their distinguished joint work on the elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway to polyisoprenoids and steroids.
 +
|-
 +
| 1967 || [[Vladimir Prelog]] || In recognition of his distinguished work in the development of stereochemical concepts and on the structure of alkaloids and antibiotics.
 +
|-
 +
| 1966 || [[Ewart Jones]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to synthetic organic chemistry and to the elucidation of the structures of natural products.
 +
|-
 +
| 1965 || [[Harold Warris Thompson]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to infra-red spectroscopy and its application to chemical problems.
 +
|-
 +
| 1964 || [[Melvin Calvin]] || In recognition of his pioneering work in chemistry and biology, particularly his elucidation of the photosynthetic pathway for the incorporation of carbon dioxide by plants.
 +
|-
 +
| 1963 || [[Edmund John Bowen]] || In recognition of his distinguished work on the elucidation of photochemical reactions, and for his study of fluorescence and phosphorescence in relation to the molecular processes concerned.
 +
|-
 +
| 1962 || [[Harry Julius Emeleus]] || In recognition of his distinguished researches in inorganic chemistry and the discovery and examination of a wide range of new compounds.
 +
|-
 +
| 1961 || [[Derek Harold Richard Barton]] || In recognition of his distinguished researches in organic chemistry, particularly on the structure and stereochemistry of natural products of the terpene and steroid series; and the analysis of the conformation of cyclic structures.
 +
|-
 +
| 1960 || [[John Monteath Robertson]] || In recognition of his distinguished pioneering work on the analysis of crystal structure, especially of organic compounds.
 +
|-
 +
| 1959 || [[Robert Burns Woodward]] || In recognition of his distinguished researches in organic chemistry and particularly for his contributions to the structure and synthesis of natural products.
 +
|-
 +
| 1958 || [[Ronald George Wreyford Norrish]] || In recognition of his distinguished work in chemical kinetics, especially in photochemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 1957 || [[Kathleen Lonsdale]] || In recognition of her distinguished studies in the structure and growth of crystals.
 +
|-
 +
| 1956 || [[Robert Downs Haworth]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the chemistry of natural products particularly those containing heterocyclic systems.
 +
|-
 +
| 1955 || [[Harry Work Melville]] || In recognition of his distinguished work in physical chemistry and in polymer reactions.
 +
|-
 +
| 1954 || [[James Wilfred Cook]] || For his distinguished fundamental investigations in organic chemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 1953 || [[John Lennard-Jones]] || For his distinguished work on the applications of quantum mechanics to the theory of valency and to the analysis of the intimate structure of decimal compounds.
 +
|-
 +
| 1952 || [[Alexander Robertson]] || In recognition of his researches into the chemistry of natural products, particularly the wide range of glycosides, bitter principles and colouring matters containing heterocyclic oxygen atoms.
 +
|-
 +
| 1951 || [[Eric Rideal]] || For his distinguished contributions to the subject of surface chemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 1950 || [[John Simonsen]] || For his distinguished researches on the constitution of natural products, especially the plant hydro-carbons and their derivatives.
 +
|-
 +
| 1949 || [[Alexander Robertus Todd]] || For his structural synthetic studies and achievements in organic and bio-chemistry, with special reference to vitamins B1 and E and the naturally occurring nucleosides.
 +
|-
 +
| 1948 || [[Edmund Langley Hirst]] || In recognition of his outstanding work in the determination of the structure of sugars, starches, plant gums and especially of vitamin C.
 +
|-
 +
| 1947 || [[Linus Carl Pauling]] || In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the theory of valency and for theor application to systems of biological importance.
 +
|-
 +
| 1946 || [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] || In recognition of his distinguished work in applying physical methods to problems in organic chemistry.
 +
|-
 +
| 1945 || [[Robert Adams]] || In recognition of his extensive researches in the field of organic chemistry and of his recent work in the alkaloid field.
 +
|-
 +
| 1944 || [[Robert Robertson]] || In recognition of his researches on explosives, analytical methods, the internal structure of diamond, and infra-red absorption spectra.
 +
|-
 +
| 1943 || [[Ian Morris Heilbron]] || In recognition of his many notable contributions to organic chemistry, especially to the chemistry of natural products of physiological importance.
 +
|-
 +
| 1942 || [[Cyril Norman Hinshelwood]] || In recognition of his distinguished work on the mechanism of chemical reactions.
 +
|-
 +
| 1941 || [[Henry Drysdale Dakin]] || For his work as a pioneer in biochemical research and especially because of his fundamental contributions to the study of intermediate metabolism.
 +
|-
 +
| 1940 || [[Harold Clayton Urey]] || For his isolation of deuterium, the heavy hydrogen isotope, and for his work on this and other isotopes in following the detailed course of chemical reactions.
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|-
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| 1939 || [[James William McBain]] || For having opened up the study of colloidal electrolytes, provided the elements of the guiding theory, and developed the subject.
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|-
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| 1938 || [[George Barger]] || In recognition of his distinguished researches on alkaloids and other natural products.
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|-
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| 1937 || [[Hans Fischer]] || In recognition of his work on the chemistry of the porphyrins, particularly his determination of their detailed structure by degradation and his syntheses of porphyrins of biological importance.
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|-
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| 1936 || [[William Arthur Bone]] || For his pioneer work on contact catalysis and his researches on the mechanism of combustion of hydrocarbons and on the nature of flames and on gaseous explosions.
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|-
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| 1935 || [[Arthur Harden]] || For his distinguished work in biochemistry and especially for his fundamental discoveries in the chemistry of alcoholic fermentation.
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|-
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| 1934 || [[Walter Norman Haworth]] || For his researches on the molecular structure of carbohydrates.
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|-
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| 1933 || [[William Hobson Mills]] || For his researches in organic chemistry, and for his work on the synthesis and properties of the cyanine dyes, and more especially for his investigation of novel types of asymmetric molecules.
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|-
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| 1932 || [[Richard Willstätter]] || For his distinguished researches in organic chemistry.
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|-
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| 1931 || [[Arthur Lapworth]] || For his researches in organic chemistry, particularly those connected with tautomerism and the mechanism of organic reactions.
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|-
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| 1930 || [[Robert Robinson]] || For his work on the constitution and synthesis of natural products; also for his contributions to the theory of organic reactions.
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|-
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| 1929 || [[Gilbert Newton Lewis]] || For his contributions to classical thermodynamics and the theory of valency.
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|-
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| 1928 || [[Frederick George Donnan]] || For his contributions to physical chemistry and particularly for his theory of membrane equilibrium.
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|-
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| 1927 || [[Arthur Amos Noyes]] || For his work in physical chemistry, especially on the subject of electrolytic solutions.
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|-
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| 1926 || [[James Walker]] || For his work on the theory of ionisation.
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|-
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| 1925 || [[James Irvine]] || For his work on the constitution of the sugars.
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|-
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| 1924 || [[Arthur George Perkin]] || For his researches on the structure of natural colouring matters.
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|-
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| 1923 || [[Herbert B. Baker]] || For his researches on the complete drying of gases and liquids.
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|-
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| 1922 || [[Jocelyn Field Thorpe]] || For his researches in synthetic organic chemistry.
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|-
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| 1921 || [[Philippe A. Guye]] || For his researches in physical chemistry.
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|-
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| 1920 || [[Charles T. Heycock]] || On the ground of his work in physical chemistry and more especially on the composition & constitution of alloys.
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|-
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| 1919 || [[Percy F. Frankland]] || On the ground of his distinguished work in chemistry, especially that on optical activity, and on fermentation.
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|-
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| 1918 || [[F. Stanley Kipping]] || On the ground of his studies in the camphor group and among the organic derivatives of nitrogen and silicon.
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|-
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| 1917 || [[Albin Haller]] || On the ground of his important researches in the domain of organic chemistry.
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|-
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| 1916 || [[Henri le Châtelier]] || On the ground of his eminence as a chemist.
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|-
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| 1915 || [[Paul Sabatier]] || For his researches on contact action, and the application of finely divided metals as catalytic agents.
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|-
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| 1914 || [[William Jackson Pope]] || On the ground of his important contributions to structural & organic chemistry.
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|-
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| 1913 || [[Raphael Meldola]] || On the ground of work in synthetic chemistry.
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|-
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| 1912 || [[Otto Wallach]] || On the ground of his researches on the chemistry of the essential oils, and the cyclo-olefines.
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|-
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| 1911 || [[Henry Edward Armstrong]] || On the ground of his researches in organic and general chemistry.
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|-
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| 1910 || [[Theodore W. Richards]] || On the ground of his researches on the detrmination of atomic weights.
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|-
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| 1909 || [[James Dewar]] || On the ground of his researches at low temperatures.
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|-
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| 1908 || [[William A. Tilden]] || On the ground of his discoveries in chemistry, especially on the terpenes and on atomic heats.
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|-
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| 1907 || [[Edward Williams Morley]] || On the ground of his contributions to physics and chemistry, and especially for his determinations of the relative atomic weights of hydrogen & oxygen.
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|-
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| 1906 || [[Rudolf Fittig]] || For his investigations in chemistry especially his work on lactones and acids.
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|-
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| 1905 || [[Albert Ladenburg]] || For his researches in organic chemistry, especially in connection with the synthesis of natural alkaloids.
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|-
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| 1904 || [[William Henry Perkin, Jr.]] || For his notable discoveries in organic chemistry.
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|-
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| 1903 || [[Pierre Curie]]<br/>[[Marie Curie]] || For their researches on radium.
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|-
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| 1902 || [[Svante August Arrhenius]] || For the application of the theory of dissociation to the explanation of chemical change.
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|-
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| 1901 || [[George Downing Living]] || For his contributions to spectroscopy.
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|-
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| 1900 || [[Guglielmo Koerner]] || For his brilliant investigations on the position theory of the aromatic compounds.
 
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| 1899 || [[Edward Schunck]] || For his researches on madder, indigo, and chlorophyll.  
 
| 1899 || [[Edward Schunck]] || For his researches on madder, indigo, and chlorophyll.  
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Latest revision as of 19:41, 31 March 2011

The Davy Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Society since 1877 for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry".[1] The medal is in bronze, depicting a bust of Humphry Davy, and is accompanied by a cash gift, currently £1000 (about €1200).[1]

Year Recipient(s) Citation
2010 Carol Robinson for her ground-breaking and novel use of mass spectrometry for the characterisation of large protein complexes.[1]
2009 Jeremy Sanders for his pioneering contributions to several fields, most recently to the field of dynamic combinatorial chemistry at the forefront of supramolecular chemistry.[1]
2008 Fraser Stoddart for his contributions in molecular technology. His work bridges the gap between chemistry and the scientific and engineering challenges of nanoelectromechanical systems.
2007 John Simons for his many innovative experimental contributions to a broad area of chemical physics, including molecular reaction dynamics, molecular spectroscopy and most recently, biophysical chemistry.
2006 Martin Pope for his pioneering work in the field of molecular semiconductors which has now become a large and important area of semiconductor science and technology.
2005 Chris Dobson for his work on the application of NMR and other structural methods for studying protein folding and misfolding, especially the formation of amyloid fibrils, leading to novel insights on protein structure and folding.
2004 Takeshi Oka for his many and varied contributions to molecular spectroscopy and its applications, particularly to astronomy.
2003 Roger Parsons for his distinguished career in electochemistry. He developed the method of preparing, for the first time, clean and well-defined metal surfaces and putting them into contact with the electrolyte without contamination.
2002 Neil Bartlett for his research exploring the highest oxidation limits of the less oxidizable elements, primarily using elemental flourine. He has exposed the new chemistry of the noble gases and new procedures for attaining high oxidation state limits across the elements of the periodic table.
2001 Alastair Ian Scott for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of biosynthetic pathways, and in particular for his work on vitamin B12. He is a world leader in his area and the impact of his discoveries are likely to have a significant effect on the way natural product chemistry progresses into the future.
2000 Steven Victor Ley in recognition of his invention of new synthetic methods applied to the synthesis of complex natural products including those from insects, micro-organisms and plants. Among his most outstanding successes have been the synthesis of avermectin B1a, tetronasin, the milbemycins and indanomycin as well as his important development of short, practical syntheses of oligosaccharides.
1999 Malcolm Harold Chisholm in recognition of his leading work in inorganic chemistry, particularly his major impact on the chemistry of transition metals and his pioneering research on the unique triply metal-metal bonded dimolybdenum and ditungsten dialkylamides, alkoxides and alkyls, and for the use of these compounds in further important syntheses.
1998 Alan Roy Fersht in recognition for his pioneering work on the analysis of proteins by combining the methods and ideas of physical-organic chemistry with those of protein engineering thus illuminating such processes as enzymatic catalysis, protein folding, protein-protein interactions and those macromolecule interactions in general that are dominated by the chemistry of the noncovalent bond.
1997 Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn in recognition of his work on supramolecular chemistry, on self-assembling molecules and on chemical devices.
1996 Geoffrey Wilkinson in recognition of his contribution to organotransition metal chemistry and the development of homogeneous catalysis and his work on hydroformylation.
1995 M. L. H. Green in recognition of his contribution to organometallic chemistry with particular application to catalytic reactions.
1994 John Meurig Thomas for his pioneering studies of solid-state chemistry, and for the major advances he has made in the design of new materials for heterogeneous catalysis.
1993 Jack E. Baldwin distinguished for his contributions to bio-organic chemistry, in particular to an understanding of the biosynthesis of beta-lactam antibodies.
1992 A. Carrington distinguished for the determination and characterization of the molecular spectra of transient species.
1991 J. R. Knowles in recognition of his contributions to mechanistic chemistry integrated with enzymology, particularly the application of chemical methods to solve fundamental biological problems of recognition and catalysis.
1990 Keith Usherwood Ingold for pioneering the quantitative study of free radical reactions in solution, in glasses and in living organisms, particularly using electron magnetic resonance.
1989 Francis Gordon Albert Stone In recognition of his many distinguished contributions to organometallic chemistry, including the discovery that species containing carbon-metal of metal-metal multiple bonds are versatile reagents for synthesis of cluster compounds with bonds between different transition elements.
1988 J. A. Pople In recognition of his wide-ranging contributions to theoretical chemistry, especially his development and application of techniques for the computation of molecular wave-functions and properties.
1987 Alec John Jeffreys In recognition of his contributions to the chemistry of human DNA - in particular the discovery and exploitation of hypervariable satellites in the human genome.
1986 A. G. Ogston In recognition of his early seminal proposal of the ways enzymes deal asymmetrically with symmetrical substrates and his later quantitative analysis of macromolecule interactions which elucidated polymer exclusion effects.
1985 Jack Lewis For his outstanding work on the structure and reactivity of metal cluster compounds, including pioneering work on carbido and hydrido derivatives, and pi-donor organic molecules.
1984 Sam Edwards In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the theoretical basis of thermodynamic aspects of polymer chemistry.
1983 Duilio Arigoni In recognition of his distinguished creativity in the fields of biosynthesis and bioorganic stereochemistry.
1982 Michael James Steuart Dewar In recognition of his distinguished studies of the mechanisms of a wide range of chemical reactions based on semi-empirical wave mechanical calculations.
1981 Ralph Alexander Raphael In recognition of his distinguished contributions to organic synthesis and in particular his ingenious applications of acetylenic intermediates.
1980 Alan Woodworth Johnson In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the chemistry of natural products including vitamin B12 porphyrins, plant germination factors and insect hormones and pheromones.
1979 Joseph Chatt In recognition of his distinguished contributions to transition metal chemistry and the understanding of catalysis involving ligating molecules such as olefins or dinitrogen.
1978 Albert Eschenmoser In recognition of his distinguished contributions to modern synthetic organic chemistry, well illustrated by his impressive total synthesis of vitamin B12.
1977 Alan Rushton Battersby In recognition of his outstanding and internationally recognized contributions to biosynthesis - his meticulous and logical unravelling of the complex pathways by which alkaloids and porphyrins are elaborated in vivo.
1976 Rex Edward Richards In recognition of his outstanding contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its application to chemical and biological problems.
1975 Theodore Morris Sugden In recognition of his distinguished contributions to physical chemistry including particularly the reactions occurring in flames.
1974 James Baddiley In recognition of his distinguished researches on coenzyme A and studies of the constituents of bacterial cell walls.
1973 John Stuart Anderson In recognition of his distinguished contributions to chemistry especially on the structural investigation of imperfect surfaces and non-stoichiometric materials.
1972 Arthur John Birch In recognition of his distinguished biosynthetic studies of organic natural products and his development of new reagents for reduction processes.
1971 George Porter In recognition of his distinguished contributions to our understanding of chemical reactions.
1970 Charles Alfred Coulson In recognition of his distinguished work in theoretical chemistry.
1969 Frederick Sydney Dainton In recognition of his distinguished work on the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
1968 John Warcup Cornforth
George Joseph Popjak		 In recognition of their distinguished joint work on the elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway to polyisoprenoids and steroids.
1967 Vladimir Prelog In recognition of his distinguished work in the development of stereochemical concepts and on the structure of alkaloids and antibiotics.
1966 Ewart Jones In recognition of his distinguished contributions to synthetic organic chemistry and to the elucidation of the structures of natural products.
1965 Harold Warris Thompson In recognition of his distinguished contributions to infra-red spectroscopy and its application to chemical problems.
1964 Melvin Calvin In recognition of his pioneering work in chemistry and biology, particularly his elucidation of the photosynthetic pathway for the incorporation of carbon dioxide by plants.
1963 Edmund John Bowen In recognition of his distinguished work on the elucidation of photochemical reactions, and for his study of fluorescence and phosphorescence in relation to the molecular processes concerned.
1962 Harry Julius Emeleus In recognition of his distinguished researches in inorganic chemistry and the discovery and examination of a wide range of new compounds.
1961 Derek Harold Richard Barton In recognition of his distinguished researches in organic chemistry, particularly on the structure and stereochemistry of natural products of the terpene and steroid series; and the analysis of the conformation of cyclic structures.
1960 John Monteath Robertson In recognition of his distinguished pioneering work on the analysis of crystal structure, especially of organic compounds.
1959 Robert Burns Woodward In recognition of his distinguished researches in organic chemistry and particularly for his contributions to the structure and synthesis of natural products.
1958 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish In recognition of his distinguished work in chemical kinetics, especially in photochemistry.
1957 Kathleen Lonsdale In recognition of her distinguished studies in the structure and growth of crystals.
1956 Robert Downs Haworth In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the chemistry of natural products particularly those containing heterocyclic systems.
1955 Harry Work Melville In recognition of his distinguished work in physical chemistry and in polymer reactions.
1954 James Wilfred Cook For his distinguished fundamental investigations in organic chemistry.
1953 John Lennard-Jones For his distinguished work on the applications of quantum mechanics to the theory of valency and to the analysis of the intimate structure of decimal compounds.
1952 Alexander Robertson In recognition of his researches into the chemistry of natural products, particularly the wide range of glycosides, bitter principles and colouring matters containing heterocyclic oxygen atoms.
1951 Eric Rideal For his distinguished contributions to the subject of surface chemistry.
1950 John Simonsen For his distinguished researches on the constitution of natural products, especially the plant hydro-carbons and their derivatives.
1949 Alexander Robertus Todd For his structural synthetic studies and achievements in organic and bio-chemistry, with special reference to vitamins B1 and E and the naturally occurring nucleosides.
1948 Edmund Langley Hirst In recognition of his outstanding work in the determination of the structure of sugars, starches, plant gums and especially of vitamin C.
1947 Linus Carl Pauling In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the theory of valency and for theor application to systems of biological importance.
1946 Christopher Kelk Ingold In recognition of his distinguished work in applying physical methods to problems in organic chemistry.
1945 Robert Adams In recognition of his extensive researches in the field of organic chemistry and of his recent work in the alkaloid field.
1944 Robert Robertson In recognition of his researches on explosives, analytical methods, the internal structure of diamond, and infra-red absorption spectra.
1943 Ian Morris Heilbron In recognition of his many notable contributions to organic chemistry, especially to the chemistry of natural products of physiological importance.
1942 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood In recognition of his distinguished work on the mechanism of chemical reactions.
1941 Henry Drysdale Dakin For his work as a pioneer in biochemical research and especially because of his fundamental contributions to the study of intermediate metabolism.
1940 Harold Clayton Urey For his isolation of deuterium, the heavy hydrogen isotope, and for his work on this and other isotopes in following the detailed course of chemical reactions.
1939 James William McBain For having opened up the study of colloidal electrolytes, provided the elements of the guiding theory, and developed the subject.
1938 George Barger In recognition of his distinguished researches on alkaloids and other natural products.
1937 Hans Fischer In recognition of his work on the chemistry of the porphyrins, particularly his determination of their detailed structure by degradation and his syntheses of porphyrins of biological importance.
1936 William Arthur Bone For his pioneer work on contact catalysis and his researches on the mechanism of combustion of hydrocarbons and on the nature of flames and on gaseous explosions.
1935 Arthur Harden For his distinguished work in biochemistry and especially for his fundamental discoveries in the chemistry of alcoholic fermentation.
1934 Walter Norman Haworth For his researches on the molecular structure of carbohydrates.
1933 William Hobson Mills For his researches in organic chemistry, and for his work on the synthesis and properties of the cyanine dyes, and more especially for his investigation of novel types of asymmetric molecules.
1932 Richard Willstätter For his distinguished researches in organic chemistry.
1931 Arthur Lapworth For his researches in organic chemistry, particularly those connected with tautomerism and the mechanism of organic reactions.
1930 Robert Robinson For his work on the constitution and synthesis of natural products; also for his contributions to the theory of organic reactions.
1929 Gilbert Newton Lewis For his contributions to classical thermodynamics and the theory of valency.
1928 Frederick George Donnan For his contributions to physical chemistry and particularly for his theory of membrane equilibrium.
1927 Arthur Amos Noyes For his work in physical chemistry, especially on the subject of electrolytic solutions.
1926 James Walker For his work on the theory of ionisation.
1925 James Irvine For his work on the constitution of the sugars.
1924 Arthur George Perkin For his researches on the structure of natural colouring matters.
1923 Herbert B. Baker For his researches on the complete drying of gases and liquids.
1922 Jocelyn Field Thorpe For his researches in synthetic organic chemistry.
1921 Philippe A. Guye For his researches in physical chemistry.
1920 Charles T. Heycock On the ground of his work in physical chemistry and more especially on the composition & constitution of alloys.
1919 Percy F. Frankland On the ground of his distinguished work in chemistry, especially that on optical activity, and on fermentation.
1918 F. Stanley Kipping On the ground of his studies in the camphor group and among the organic derivatives of nitrogen and silicon.
1917 Albin Haller On the ground of his important researches in the domain of organic chemistry.
1916 Henri le Châtelier On the ground of his eminence as a chemist.
1915 Paul Sabatier For his researches on contact action, and the application of finely divided metals as catalytic agents.
1914 William Jackson Pope On the ground of his important contributions to structural & organic chemistry.
1913 Raphael Meldola On the ground of work in synthetic chemistry.
1912 Otto Wallach On the ground of his researches on the chemistry of the essential oils, and the cyclo-olefines.
1911 Henry Edward Armstrong On the ground of his researches in organic and general chemistry.
1910 Theodore W. Richards On the ground of his researches on the detrmination of atomic weights.
1909 James Dewar On the ground of his researches at low temperatures.
1908 William A. Tilden On the ground of his discoveries in chemistry, especially on the terpenes and on atomic heats.
1907 Edward Williams Morley On the ground of his contributions to physics and chemistry, and especially for his determinations of the relative atomic weights of hydrogen & oxygen.
1906 Rudolf Fittig For his investigations in chemistry especially his work on lactones and acids.
1905 Albert Ladenburg For his researches in organic chemistry, especially in connection with the synthesis of natural alkaloids.
1904 William Henry Perkin, Jr. For his notable discoveries in organic chemistry.
1903 Pierre Curie
Marie Curie		 For their researches on radium.
1902 Svante August Arrhenius For the application of the theory of dissociation to the explanation of chemical change.
1901 George Downing Living For his contributions to spectroscopy.
1900 Guglielmo Koerner For his brilliant investigations on the position theory of the aromatic compounds.
1899 Edward Schunck For his researches on madder, indigo, and chlorophyll.
1898 Johannes Wislicenus For his contributions to organic chemistry especially in the domain of stereochemical isomerism.
1897 John Hall Gladstone For his numerous contributions to chemical science, and especially for his important work in the application of optical methods to chemistry.
1896 Henri Moissan For the isolation of fluorine, and the use of the electric furnace in the preparation of refractory metals and their compounds.
1895 William Ramsay For his share in the discovery of argon, and for his discoveries regarding gaseous constituents of terrestrial minerals.
1894 Per Theodor Cleve For his researches on the chemistry of the rare earths.
1893 J. H. van 't Hoff
J. A. Le Bel		 In recognition of their introduction of the theory of asymmetric carbon, and its use in explaining the constitution of optically active carbon compounds.
1892 François Marie Raoult For his researches on the freezing points of solutions, and on the vapour pressures of solutions.
1891 Victor Meyer For his researches on the determination of vapour densities at high temperatures.
1890 Emil Fischer For his discoveries in organic chemistry and especially for his researches on the carbo-hydrates.
1889 William Henry Perkin For his researches on magnetic rotation in relation to chemical constitution.
1888 William Crookes For his investigations on the behaviour of substances under the influences of the electric discharge in a high vacuum.
1887 John A. R. Newlands For his discovery of the periodic law of the chemical elements.
1886 Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac For his researches on atomic weights.
1885 Jean Servais Stas For his researches on the atomic weights.
1884 Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe For his researches in the isomerism of alcohols.
1883 Marcellin Berthelot
Julius Thomsen		 For their researches in thermo-chemistry.
1882 D. Mendelejeff
Lothar Meyer		 For their discovery of the periodic relations of the atomic weights.
1881 Adolf Baeyer For his synthesis of indigo.
1880 Charles Friedel For his researches on the organic compounds of silicon, and other investigations.
1879 Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran For his discovery of gallium.
1878 Louis Paul Cailletet
Raoul Pictet		 For their researches, conducted independently, but contemporaneously, on the condensation of the so-called permanent gases.
1877 Robert William Bunsen
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff		 For their researches & discoveries in spectrum analysis.
Source: unless otherwise stated, Royal Society.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Davy Medal; Royal Society, <http://royalsociety.org/Davy-Medal/>. (accessed 31 March 2011).
  2. ↑ Davy archive winners 1899 – 1877; Royal Society, <http://royalsociety.org/General_WF.aspx?pageid=7049>. (accessed 31 March 2011).
  3. ↑ Davy archive winners 1989 – 1900; Royal Society, <http://royalsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=3273>. (accessed 31 March 2011).
  4. ↑ Davy recent winners; Royal Society, <http://royalsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=3272>. (accessed 31 March 2011).

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