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<html> <head> <title>Hughes Medal</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Hughes Medal HONORS Awarded by the <a href="/org/793/000055628/">Royal Society</a> for "an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications." Named for <a href="/people/399/000103090/">David Hughes</a>, inventor of the microphone. <table border=1><tr> <td><center><tt>1902</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/479/000099182/">J. J. Thomson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1903</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/397/000169887/">Johann Hittorf</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1904</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/336/000098042/">Sir Joseph Wilson Swan</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1905</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/171/000172652/">Augusto Righi</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1906</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/034/000167530/">Hertha Ayrton</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1907</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/003/000169493/">Ernest Howard Griffiths</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1908</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/887/000169380/">Eugen Goldstein</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1909</tt></center></td> <td>Richard Glazebrook </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1910</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/576/000169069/">John Ambrose Fleming</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1911</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/726/000099429/">C. T. R. Wilson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1912</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/292/000168785/">William Duddell</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1913</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/851/000026773/">Alexander Graham Bell</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1914</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/416/000173894/">John Townsend</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1915</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/085/000099785/">Paul Langevin</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1916</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/991/000167490/">Elihu Thomson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1917</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/549/000099252/">Charles Glover Barkla</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1918</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/776/000079539/">Irving Langmuir</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1919</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/824/000168320/">Charles Chree</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1920</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/722/000099425/">Owen Willans Richardson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1921</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1922</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/289/000099989/">Francis W. Aston</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1923</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/771/000091498/">Robert A. Millikan</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1924</tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1925</tt></center></td> <td>Frank Edward Smith </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1926</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/498/000169988/">Henry B. Jackson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1927</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/950/000167449/">William D. Coolidge</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1928</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/331/000167827/">Maurice de Broglie</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1929</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/123/000099823/">Hans Geiger</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1930</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/724/000099427/">Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1931</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/533/000099236/">William Bragg</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1932</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/728/000099431/">James Chadwick</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1933</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/753/000099456/">Edward Victor Appleton</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1934</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/559/000099262/">Manne Siegbahn</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1935</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/736/000099439/">Clinton Davisson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1936</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/438/000172919/">Walter Schottky</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1937</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/974/000055809/">Ernest Lawrence</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1938</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/766/000099469/">John Cockcroft</a> and <a href="/people/769/000099472/">Ernest T. S. Walton</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1939</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/482/000099185/">George Paget Thomson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1940</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/968/000055803/">Arthur H. Compton</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1941</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/913/000099616/">Nevill F. Mott</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1942</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/884/000053725/">Enrico Fermi</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1943</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/089/000171573/">Mark Oliphant</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1944</tt></center></td> <td>George Finch </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1945</tt></center></td> <td>Basil Schonland </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1946</tt></center></td> <td>John Randall </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1947</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/412/000100112/">Frédéric Joliot</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1948</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/058/000206437/">Robert Watson-Watt</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1949</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/762/000099465/">Cecil Powell</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1950</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/507/000071294/">Max Born</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1951</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/032/000170519/">Hendrik Kramers</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1952</tt></center></td> <td>Philip Dee </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1953</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/668/000168164/">Edward Bullard</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1954</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/889/000099592/">Martin Ryle</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1955</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/412/000170899/">Harrie Massey</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1956</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/193/000170680/">Frederick Lindemann</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1957</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/938/000172422/">Joseph Proudman</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1958</tt></center></td> <td>Edward da Costa Andrade </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1959</tt></center></td> <td>Alfred Pippard </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1960</tt></center></td> <td>Joseph Pawsey </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1961</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/038/000168531/">Alan Cottrell</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1962</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/210/000167706/">Brebis Bleaney</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1963</tt></center></td> <td>Frederic Williams </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1964</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/948/000099651/">Abdus Salam</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1965</tt></center></td> <td>Denys Wilkinson </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1966</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/832/000170322/">Nicholas Kemmer</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1967</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/694/000171181/">Kurt Mendelssohn</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1968</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/967/000022901/">Freeman Dyson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1969</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/034/000170521/">Nicholas Kurti</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1970</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/130/000167626/">David Bates</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1971</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/639/000168135/">R. Hanbury Brown</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1972</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/887/000099590/">Brian D. Josephson</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1973</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/351/000169841/">Peter B. Hirsch</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1974</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/618/000169111/">Peter Fowler</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1975</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/055/000168548/">Richard Dalitz</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1976</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/563/000022497/">Stephen Hawking</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1977</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/892/000099595/">Antony Hewish</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1978</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/870/000168366/">William Cochran</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1979</tt></center></td> <td>Robert Williams </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1980</tt></center></td> <td>Francis Farley </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1981</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/305/000169795/">Peter Higgs</a>, <a href="/people/922/000170412/">Tom Kibble</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1982</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/447/000170934/">Drummond Matthews</a> and <a href="/people/631/000365533/">Frederick Vine</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1983</tt></center></td> <td>John Ward </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1984</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/892/000170382/">Roy Kerr</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1985</tt></center></td> <td>Tony Skyrme </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1986</tt></center></td> <td>M. M. Woolfson </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1987</tt></center></td> <td>Michael Pepper </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1988</tt></center></td> <td>A. Howie and M. J. Whelan </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1989</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/862/000164370/">John Stewart Bell</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1990</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/052/000168545/">Thomas George Cowling</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1991</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/925/000171412/">Philip Moon</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1992</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/577/000173058/">Michael Seaton</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1993</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/453/000169943/">George Isaak</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1994</tt></center></td> <td>Robert Chambers </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1995</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/677/000173158/">David Shoenberg</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1996</tt></center></td> <td>Amyand Buckingham </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1997</tt></center></td> <td>Andrew Lang </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1998</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/300/000169790/">Raymond Hide</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>1999</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/279/000167775/">Alec Boksenberg</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt>2000</tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/089/000172570/">C. 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