Mullard Award

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."^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[1][3]

Mullard Award
Awarded for	made to individuals whose work has the potential to make a contribution to national prosperity
Sponsored by	Royal Society Mullard Limited
Country	United Kingdom
First award	1967
Website	royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/mullard-award/

Mullard medallists

Year	Name	Rationale	Notes
1967	George Douglas Hutton Bell	"for his contribution to agricultural production in breeding Proctor barley"	[4][5]
1968	Alastair Pilkington		[6]
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"	[7][8]
1970	Stephen William Kenneth Morgan, Stephen Esslement Woods, John Lumsden, Bennett Gregory Perry and Leslie Jack Derham		[9]
1971	Frank Ralph Batchelor, Frank Peter Doyle, John Herbert Charles Naylor and George Newbolt Rolinson		[10][11]
1972	William Robert Boon		[12]
1973	Charles William Oatley		[13][14][15]
1974	Frank Brian Mercer		[16]
1975	John Bingham		[17]
1976	George Herbert Hutchings		[14][a]
1977	Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield		[19]
1978	James W. Black		[17]
1979	Ernest Martin Ellis and Geoffrey Light Wilde		[20]
1980	Edward Penley Abraham		[21]
1981	Michael Elliott, Norman Frank James and David Allen Pulman		[22][23]
1982	Martin Francis Wood, John Michael Woodgate and Peter Edward Hanley		[24]
1983	John William Fozard and Ralph Spenser Hooper		[25]
1984	Clive Marles Sinclair		[26][27]
1985	David Kalderon		[28]
1986	John Bedford Stenlake		[29][30]
1987	Michael Alan Ford		[citation needed]
1988	Ralph Louis Wain		[31]
1989	David Richard Sweatman Hedgeland		[32]
1990	Peter Mansfield, John Rowland Mallard and James McDonald Strahan Hutchinson		[33]: 139
1991	David Jack and Roy Thomas Brittain		[citation needed]
1992	Robert William Ernest Shannon		[34][35]
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"	[36]
1994	John White, Brad Amos, Richard Durbin and Michael Fordham		[37][38][39][40]
1995	Kenneth Richardson		[41]
1996	Ian McKittrick		[42]
1997	Patrick Humphrey		[43][44][45]
1998	Graham Richards		[46]
1999	John Rhodes		[47]
2000	Martin Sweeting		[48]
2003	Henning Sirringhaus		[49]
2004	Jeremy Baumberg		[50]
2005	Ben G. Davis		[51]
2007	Chris Freeman		[52]
2009	Shankar Balasubramanian		[53]
2014	Demis Hassabis		[54]
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"	[55]
2018	Florin Udrea and Julian Gardner		[56]
2019	Hagan Bayley		[57]
2020	Stephen Jackson		[58]
2021	Stephen G. Davies		[59]
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

Table notes

1. Hutchings became the first American to receive the award.^[18]

See also

• Lists of science and technology awards