To the date, 23 academics and industrialists have received the award. • 1947 –
Alexander Fleck – British industrial chemist and chair of
Imperial Chemical Industries • 1950 – Christian H. Aall – Noted for his work at Monsanto Chemical Co. and American Metals Climax. • 1953 –
Robert C. Swain – Research chemist, president of
Perkin-Elmer,
Hoover Institution and
American Cyanamid. • 1956 –
Christopher Hinton – Chief engineer at
Imperial Chemical Industries and head nuclear engineer of the
Atomic Energy Authority. • 1958 - Ronald Holroyd - Deputy chairman at
Imperial Chemical Industries. • 1960 -
William J. Kroll - Inventor of the
Kroll process for
titanium extraction. • 1965 - Herbert M. Stanley - Developer of chemical processes at the Central Research Department of the Distillers Company Ltd. • 1967 - Duncan S. Davies - Scientist and engineer, noted for fibre-reactive dyes, polymers and coatings at
Imperial Chemical Industries. • 1970 - Bernhard Timm - Contributions to ammonia synthesis and heterogeneous catalysis, director of
BASF. • 1974 - S. Puschaver - Contributions to the development of dimensionally stable anodes. • 1985 -
Walther G. Grot - Co-discoverer of
Nafion at
DuPont Corporation. • 1990 - Patrick Meares - Expert in structure and transport properties of polymer membranes at
University of Exeter. • 1991 –
Hiroto Miyake – Developer and designer of Flemion membranes at
Asahi Glass Co. • 1994 -
Gerhard Kreysa - Expert in electrochemical engineering and director of
DECHEMA. • 1997 -
Maomi Seko - Developer of ion exchange membranes for chlor-alkali process and president of
Asahi Chemical Industry. • 2002 -
Dieter Landolt - Professor of electrochemical engineering at
EPFL. • 2004 –
Geoffrey Ballard – Founder of
Ballard Power Systems, developer of
proton-exchange membrane fuel cell. • 2007 –
Geoffrey H. Kelsall – Professor of electrochemical engineering with interests on modelling and optimisation of electrochemical processes and kinetics at gas evolving electrodes
Imperial College London. • 2009 –
Anthony A. Wragg – Professor of electrochemical engineering at
University of Exeter. Contributed to the study of mass transport in electrochemical reactors. Longtime editor of the
Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. • 2011 –
Maria Skyllas-Kazacos – Developer of the
vanadium redox battery. Professor at
University of New South Wales. • 2013 –
Derek Pletcher – Professor of electrochemistry with interests in research and consultancy in electrochemical technology
University of Southampton. • 2015 –
David E. Williams – Professor of electrochemistry and chemical sensors at
University of Auckland. • 2017 –
Frank C. Walsh – Professor of electrochemical engineering with consultancy and research interests in corrosion and protection of metals, electrodeposition, nanostructured electrocatalysts, synthesis, flow batteries, fuel cells and super capacitors at
University of Southampton. • 2019 – Keith Scott – Professor of electrochemical engineering with activities on fuel cells, batteries, microbial and biological fuel cells and electrochemical synthesis at
Newcastle University. • 2022 – Dr. David Hodgson – TFP Hydrogen Products Ltd's Managing Director with 30 year career in applied electrochemistry including work in water electrolysers, the chlor-alkali industry, flow batteries, molten salt electrochemistry, fuel cells and water treatment. ==See also==