HONORS

Awarded by the Royal Society for "an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications." Named for David Hughes, inventor of the microphone.

1902	J. J. Thomson
1903	Johann Hittorf
1904	Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
1905	Augusto Righi
1906	Hertha Ayrton
1907	Ernest Howard Griffiths
1908	Eugen Goldstein
1909	Richard Glazebrook
1910	John Ambrose Fleming
1911	C. T. R. Wilson
1912	William Duddell
1913	Alexander Graham Bell
1914	John Townsend
1915	Paul Langevin
1916	Elihu Thomson
1917	Charles Glover Barkla
1918	Irving Langmuir
1919	Charles Chree
1920	Owen Willans Richardson
1921	Niels Bohr
1922	Francis W. Aston
1923	Robert A. Millikan
1924	(no award)
1925	Frank Edward Smith
1926	Henry B. Jackson
1927	William D. Coolidge
1928	Maurice de Broglie
1929	Hans Geiger
1930	Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1931	William Bragg
1932	James Chadwick
1933	Edward Victor Appleton
1934	Manne Siegbahn
1935	Clinton Davisson
1936	Walter Schottky
1937	Ernest Lawrence
1938	John Cockcroft and Ernest T. S. Walton
1939	George Paget Thomson
1940	Arthur H. Compton
1941	Nevill F. Mott
1942	Enrico Fermi
1943	Mark Oliphant
1944	George Finch
1945	Basil Schonland
1946	John Randall
1947	Frédéric Joliot
1948	Robert Watson-Watt
1949	Cecil Powell
1950	Max Born
1951	Hendrik Kramers
1952	Philip Dee
1953	Edward Bullard
1954	Martin Ryle
1955	Harrie Massey
1956	Frederick Lindemann
1957	Joseph Proudman
1958	Edward da Costa Andrade
1959	Alfred Pippard
1960	Joseph Pawsey
1961	Alan Cottrell
1962	Brebis Bleaney
1963	Frederic Williams
1964	Abdus Salam
1965	Denys Wilkinson
1966	Nicholas Kemmer
1967	Kurt Mendelssohn
1968	Freeman Dyson
1969	Nicholas Kurti
1970	David Bates
1971	R. Hanbury Brown
1972	Brian D. Josephson
1973	Peter B. Hirsch
1974	Peter Fowler
1975	Richard Dalitz
1976	Stephen Hawking
1977	Antony Hewish
1978	William Cochran
1979	Robert Williams
1980	Francis Farley
1981	Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble
1982	Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine
1983	John Ward
1984	Roy Kerr
1985	Tony Skyrme
1986	M. M. Woolfson
1987	Michael Pepper
1988	A. Howie and M. J. Whelan
1989	John Stewart Bell
1990	Thomas George Cowling
1991	Philip Moon
1992	Michael Seaton
1993	George Isaak
1994	Robert Chambers
1995	David Shoenberg
1996	Amyand Buckingham
1997	Andrew Lang
1998	Raymond Hide
1999	Alec Boksenberg
2000	C. N. R. Rao
2001	John Pethica
2002	Alexander Dalgarno
2003	Peter P. Edwards
2004	John Clarke
2005	Keith Moffatt
2006	Michael Kelly
2007	Artur Ekert

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