The Beilby Medal and Prize is awarded annually to a scientist or engineer for work that has exceptional practical significance in chemical engineering, applied materials science, energy efficiency or a related field. The prize is jointly administered by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry, who make the award in rotation.
The award is open to members of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry as well as other scientists and engineers worldwide. The aim of the award is to recognise the achievements of early-career scientists, and nominees should be no older than 39 years of age.
The Beilby Medal and Prize is awarded in memory of Scottish scientist Sir George Thomas Beilby FRS. Born in 1850, he joined the Oakbank Oil Company in 1869 following his studies at the University of Edinburgh. He later became President of all three organisations or their precursor societies, acting as President of the Society of Chemical Industry from 1898–99, The Institute of Chemistry from 1902–12 and the Institute of Metals from 1916–18.
Recipients of the award receive a medal, a certificate and a prize of £1,000. The first award was made in 1930.
Recipients The Beilby Medal and Prize recipients since 1930 are:
2026 – Han Zhang 2025 – Alexandra Patterson 2024 – Robert Hoye 2023 – Charlotte Vogt 2022 – Sahika Inal 2021 – Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer 2020 – Jin Xuan 2019 – Prashant K. Jain 2018 – 2017 – 2016 – 2015 – 2014 – Javier Pérez-Ramírez 2013 – 2012 – 2011 – 2010 – 2009 – Zhenan Bao 2008 – Neil McKeown 2007 – 2006 – 2005 – Simon R. Biggs, Nilay Shah 2004 – 2003 – Peter Bruce 2002 – No award 2001 – Alfred Cerezo 2000 – Zheng Xiao Guo 1999 – John T. S. Irvine, Anthony J. Ryan 1998 – Costos C. Pantelides 1997 – Richard A. Williams 1996 – Paul J. Luckham 1995 – Lynn F. Gladden 1994 – 1993 – Howard A. Chase, David C. Sherrington 1992 – R. C. Brown 1991 – Geoffrey J. Ashwell 1990 – R. F. Dalton 1989 – No award 1988 – No award 1987 – G. E. Thompson 1986 – Malcolm Robert Mackley 1985 – George D. W. Smith 1984 – A. Grint 1983 – 1981 – Derek John Fray, R. M. Nedderman 1980 – James Barrie Scuffham 1979 – Stephen F. Bush 1978 – John Christopher Scully 1977 – James E. Castle 1976 – Ian Fells 1975 – Peter Roland Swann 1973 – Julian Szekely, G. C. Wood 1972 – Frank Pearson Lees 1971 – John Howard Purnell 1970 – Albert R. C. Westwood 1969 – Raymond Edward Smallman 1968 – J. Mardon 1967 – Anthony Kelly 1966 – J. F. Davidson 1965 – J. A. Charles 1964 – Peter L. Pratt 1963 – Robert Honeycombe, R. W. B. Nurse 1961 – C. Edeleanu, John Nutting 1957 – B. E. Hopkins, Edmund C. Potter 1956 – R. W. Kear 1955 – F. D. Richardson, F. Wormwell 1954 – H. K. Hardy, Sir James Woodham Menter 1952 – T. V. Arden 1951 – Kenneth Henderson Jack, W. A. Wood 1950 – W. A. Baker, G. Whittingham 1949 – Frank R. N. Nabarro, C. E. Ransley, 1948 – A. Stuart C. Lawrence 1947 – Geoffrey Vincent Raynor, G. R. Rigby 1940 – F. M. Lea 1938 – Frank Philip Bowden, B. Jones 1937 – Bernard Scott Evans, William Harold Juggins Vernon 1934 – William Hume-Rothery, E. A. Rudge 1933 – Constance Tipper, Arthur Joseph Victor Underwood 1932 – Walter James Rees, W. R. Schoeller 1930 – , Ulick Richardson Evans
See also
List of chemistry awards List of engineering awards
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