The Kelvin Gold Medal is a British engineering prize.

In the annual report for 1914, it was reported that the Lord Kelvin Memorial Executive Committee decided that the balance of funds left over from providing a memorial window at Westminster Abbey should be devoted to providing a Kelvin Gold Medal to mark "a distinction in engineering work or investigation" by the Presidents of eight leading British Engineering Institutions. There was a delay in awarding the first medal due to the World War.

The medal has been given triennially since 1920 for "distinguished service in the application of science to engineering". The Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) administered the prize. The Committee of Presidents considers recommendations received from similar bodies from all parts of the world. The first recipient was William Unwin.William Unwin Royal Society Obituary

Recipients

YearNameRefCountryEngineering Field 2013 Peter Davies discipline of Fluid Mechanics, particularly Environmental Fluid Mechanics 2010 2007 2004 Sir David Neil Payne Research into photonics, and its application to produce many of the key advances in optic fibre communications. 2001 1998 Duncan Dowson Tri-Elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication; Bio-Tribology 1995 William Bonfield Materials science 1992 Prof Sir Bernard Crossland Mechanical Engineering 1989 John Boscawen Burland Soil mechanics 1986 Sir Alan Howard Cottrell Metallurgy 1983 1980 1977 1974 Charles Stark Draper Control theory 1971 The Lord Penny Atomic Energy 1968 Sir Barnes Neville Wallis Marine Engineering 1965 Brigadier- General Sir Harold Hartley Physical and mineralogical chemistry 1962 Sir Edward Victor Appleton 1959 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Fluid dynamics 1956 Sir John Cockcroft Atomic Physics 1953 Chalmers Jack Mackenzie Atomic Engineering 1950 Dr Theodore von Kármán Aerospace engineering 1947 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle 1944 Not awarded 1941 not awarded 1938 Sir Joseph John Thomson Sub Atomic Physics 1935 Sir John Ambrose Fleming Electrical Engineering 1932 1st Marquis of Marconi Electrical and Radio Engineering 1929 André-Eugène Blondel Physicist 1926 Sir Charles Algernon Parsons Steam Power Engineering 1923 Dr. Elihu Thomson Electrical Engineering 1920 William Cawthorne Unwin Civil Engineering

See also

List of engineering awards

References