HONOR

Bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society annually since 1887 "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry." Named for 19th century chemist Humphry Davy.

1877	Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
1878	Louis Paul Cailletet & Raoul Pictet
1879	Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
1880	Charles Friedel
1881	Adolf von Baeyer
1882	Dmitri Mendeleev & Lothar Meyer
1883	Marcellin Berthelot and Julius Thomsen
1884	Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
1885	Jean Servais Stas
1886	Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
1887	John AR Newlands
1888	Sir William Crookes
1889	William Henry Perkin
1890	Emil Fischer
1891	Victor Meyer
1892	Francois Marie Raoult
1893	Jacobus H. van 't Hoff and J. A. Le Bel
1894	Per Theodor Cleve
1895	Sir William Ramsay
1896	Henri Moissan
1897	John Hall Gladstone
1898	Johannes Wislicenus
1899	Edward Schunck
1900	Guglielmo Koerner
1901	George Downing Living
1902	Svante Arrhenius
1903	Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
1904	William Henry Perkin
1905	Albert Ladenburg
1906	Rudolf Fittig
1907	Edward Williams Morley
1908	William A Tilden
1909	James Dewar
1910	Theodore W. Richards
1911	Henry Edward Armstrong
1912	Otto Wallach
1913	Raphael Meldola
1914	William Jackson Pope
1915	Paul Sabatier
1916	Henri le Chatelier
1917	Albin Haller
1918	F. Stanley Kipping
1919	Percy F. Frankland
1920	Charles T. Heycock
1921	Philippe A. Guye
1922	Jocelyn Field Thorpe
1923	Herbert B. Baker
1924	Arthur George Perkin
1925	James Irvine
1926	James Walker
1927	Arthur Amos Noyes
1928	Frederick George Donnan
1929	Gilbert Newton Lewis
1930	Sir Robert Robinson
1931	Arthur Lapworth
1932	Richard Willstätter
1933	William Hobson Mills
1934	Norman Haworth
1935	Arthur Harden
1936	William Arthur Bone
1937	Hans Fischer
1938	George Barger
1939	James William McBain
1940	Harold C. Urey
1941	Henry Drysdale Dakin
1942	Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
1943	Ian Morris Heilbron
1944	Robert Robertson
1945	Roger Adams
1946	Christopher Kelk Ingold
1947	Linus Pauling
1948	Edmund Langley Hirst
1949	Alexander R. Todd
1950	John Simonsen
1951	Eric Rideal
1952	Alexander Robertson
1953	John Lennard-Jones
1954	James Wilfred Cook
1955	Harry Work Melville
1956	Robert Downs Haworth
1957	Kathleen Lonsdale
1958	Ronald G. W. Norrish
1959	Robert B. Woodward
1960	John Monteath Robertson
1961	Derek Barton
1962	Harry Julius Emeleus
1963	Edmund John Bowen
1964	Melvin Calvin
1965	Harold Warris Thompson
1966	Ewart Jones
1967	Vladimir Prelog
1968	John Cornforth and George Joseph Popjak
1969	Frederick Sydney Dainton
1970	Charles Alfred Coulson
1971	George Porter
1972	Arthur John Birch
1973	John Stuart Anderson
1974	James Baddiley
1975	Theodore Morris Sugden
1976	Rex Edward Richards
1977	Alan Rushton Battersby
1978	Albert Eschenmoser
1979	Joseph Chatt
1980	Alan Woodworth Johnson
1981	Ralph Alexander Raphael
1982	Michael James Steuart Dewar
1983	Duilio Arigoni
1984	Sam Edwards
1985	Jack Lewis
1986	A. G. Ogston
1987	Alec John Jeffreys
1988	John A. Pople
1989	Francis Gordon Albert Stone
1990	Keith Usherwood Ingold
1991	Jeremy R. Knowles
1992	A. Carrington
1993	Jack E. Baldwin
1994	John Meurig Thomas
1995	M. L. H. Green
1996	Geoffrey Wilkinson
1997	Jean-Marie Lehn
1998	Alan Roy Fersht
1999	Malcolm Harold Chisholm
2000	Steven Victor Ley
2001	Alastair Ian Scott
2002	Neil Bartlett
2003	Roger Parsons

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