Gabor medal recipients
2012
Professor Alwyn Seeds
London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London
For his research on and practical realisation of microwave photonic devices leading to their commercial exploitation in wireless and optical communication systems.
2010
Professor Pratibha L Gai
The University of York
For her pioneering development of atomic – resolution environmental transmission electron microscopy and its application to instrument manufacture and industrial processing.
2008
Doreen Stoneham
Oxford Authentication Ltd
For her successful establishment of a world-leading company that authenticates ceramics for the art world.
Medallists - Duddell Medal and Prize
2007
Richard Nelmes
University of Edinburgh
For pioneering new techniques and instrumentation that have transformed high-pressure structural science.
2006
Peter Wells
Cardiff University
For his work on the application of ultrasound to medicine.
2005
Geoff Hall (Imperial College, London), Peter Sharp (RAL/CERN) and Alessandro Marchioro (CERN)
For their development of ‘radiation hard’ analogue electronics for silicon detectors enabling their use as a means of precision detection and measurement of charged particle production at the Large Hadron Collider.
2004
James Hough
2003
Stephen Myers
2002
Federico Capasso
2001
James Kazimierz Gimzewski
2000
Ondrej L Krivanek
1999
Rex Watton
1998
Meirion Francis Lewis
1997
Timothy Berners-Lee
1996
Martin Pengton Seah
1995
Alfred Rodney Adams
1994
Christopher John Stokes Damerell
1993
Michael Anthony Flemming
1992
Peter Faraday Smith
1991
Kenneth Firth and David Jonathan Hubbard
1990
John Edwin Field
1989
Michael J Downs
1988
Peter Mansfield
1987
Colin George Windsor
1986
Bryan Peter Kibble
1985
Colin Edward Webb
1984
Peter George Lecomber
1983
Ian Robert Young
1982
Simon van der Meer
1981
Bruce Arthur Joyce
1980
Albert Victor Crewe
1979
John Riddle Sandercock
1978
Edward George Sydney Paige
1977
Ronald Ferguson Pearson
1976
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
1975
Ernst Ruska
1973
Albert Franks
1971
Vernon Ellis Cosslett and Kenneth Charles Arthur Smith
1969
Charles William Oatley
1967
Keith Davy Froome and Robert Howard Bradsell
1965
Hugh Alastair Gebbie
1963
Bertram Neville Brockhouse
1961
John Bertram Adams
1960
Reginald Victor Jones
1959
George William Hutchinson and Gordon George Scarrott
1958
Leonard Charles Jackson
1957
Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams
1956
John Gilbert Daunt
1955
Rudolf Kompfner
1954
Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
1953
William Sucksmith
1952
Cecil Waller
1951
Albert Beaumont Wood
1950
Donald William Fry
1949
Edwin Herbert Land
1948
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1947
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
1946
Karl Weissenberg
1945
John Turton Randall
1944
Francis William Aston
1943
John Guild
1942
Cecil Reginald Burch
1941
William David Collidge
1940
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
1938
Robert William Paul
1937
Hans Geiger
1936
Walter Guyton Cady
1935
Charles Vickery Drysdale
1934
W Ewart Williams
1933
Harold Dennis Taylor
1932
Wolfgang Gaede
1931
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1930
J Ambrose Fleming
1929
Albert Abraham Michelson
1928
Charles Edouarde Guillaume
1927
Frank E Smith
1926
Frank Twyman
1925
Albert Campbell
1924
Charles Vernon Boys
1923
Hugh Longbourne Callendar