Hughes Medal

The Hughes Medal, named for microphone inventor David Edward Hughes, is one of several medals awarded by the Royal Society, England's reigning academy of science.

Hughes Medal Winners

• 2004 John Clarke
• 2003 Peter Edwards
• 2002 Alexander Dalgarno
• 2001 John Pethica
• 2000 Chintamani Rao
• 1999 Alexander Boksenberg
• 1998 Raymond Hide
• 1997 Andrew Lang (Physicist)
• 1996 Amyand Buckingham
• 1995 David Shoenberg
• 1994 Robert Chambers (Physicist)
• 1993 George Isaak
• 1992 Michael Seaton
• 1991 Philip Moon
• 1990 Thomas George Cowling
• 1989 John Bell
• 1988 A. Howie and M.J. Whelan
• 1987 Michael Pepper
• 1986 M.M. Woolfson
• 1985 Tony Skyrme
• 1984 Roy Kerr
• 1983 John Ward
• 1982 Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine
• 1981 Peter Higgs, Thomas Walter and Bannerman Kibble
• 1980 Francis Farley
• 1979 Robert Williams
• 1978 William Cochran
• 1977 Anthony Hewish
• 1976 Stephen Hawking
• 1975 Richard Dalitz
• 1974 Peter Fowler
• 1973 Peter Hirsch
• 1972 Brian David Josephson
• 1971 Robert Hanbury Brown
• 1970 David Bates
• 1969 Nicholas Kurti
• 1968 Freeman Dyson
• 1967 Kurt Mendelssohn
• 1966 Nicholas Kemmer
• 1965 Denys Wilkinson
• 1964 Abdus Salam
• 1963 Frederic Williams
• 1962 Brebis Bleaney
• 1961 Alan Cottrell
• 1960 Joseph Pawsey
• 1959 Alfred Pippard
• 1958 Edward da Costa Andrade
• 1957 Joseph Proudman
• 1956 Frederick Lindemann
• 1955 Harrie Massey
• 1954 Martin Ryle
• 1953 Edward Bullard
• 1952 Philip Dee
• 1951 Hendrick Kramers
• 1950 Max Born
• 1949 Cecil Powell
• 1948 Robert Watson-Watt
• 1947 Jean Joliot
• 1946 John Randall
• 1945 Basil Schonland
• 1944 George Finch
• 1943 Marcus Oliphant
• 1942 Enrico Fermi
• 1941 Nevill Mott
• 1940 Arthur Compton
• 1939 George Paget Thomson
• 1938 John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton
• 1937 Ernest Lawrence
• 1936 Walter H. Schottky
• 1935 Clinton Davisson
• 1934 Manne Siegbahn
• 1933 Edward Victor Appleton
• 1932 James Chadwick
• 1931 William Bragg
• 1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
• 1929 Hans Geiger
• 1928 Maurice de Broglie
• 1927 William Coolidge
• 1926 Henry Jackson
• 1925 Frank Edward Smith
• 1924 Not awarded
• 1923 Robert Millikan
• 1922 Francis William Aston
• 1921 Niels Bohr
• 1920 Owen Richardson
• 1919 Charles Chree
• 1918 Irving Langmuir
• 1917 Charles Barkla
• 1916 Elihu Thomson
• 1915 Paul Langevin
• 1914 John Townsend
• 1913 Alexander Graham Bell
• 1912 William Duddell
• 1911 Charles Wilson
• 1910 John Ambrose Fleming
• 1909 Richard Glazebrook
• 1908 Eugen Goldstein
• 1907 Ernest Howard Griffiths
• 1906 Hertha Ayrton
• 1905 Augusto Righi
• 1904 Joseph Swan
• 1903 William Hittorf
• 1902 J. J. Thomson