Davy Medal

Year	Recipient(s)	Citation
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.