Kelvin Gold Medal
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 provide 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 prize is administered by the Institution of Civil Engineers. The Committee of Presidents considers recommendations received from similar bodies from all parts of the world. The first recipient was William Unwin.
Recipients
| Year | Name | Ref | Country | Engineering 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 |