Further information and lists of previous winners of the Faraday Medal, Mountbatten Medal, A F Harvey Research Prize and Churchill Medal are available below.
The Churchill Medallists
Originally created by the Society of Engineers, the Churchill Medal today recognises a team or individual for an outstanding achievement and contribution in support of military operations.
The Churchill Medal was the Premier award of the Society of Engineers.
Sir Winston Churchill gave approval for the title of the medal in November 1946 when he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Engineers and the first award was made in 1952.
Originally the medal was awarded to an individual once in alternate even years in respect of an important contribution to contemporary engineering, an original engineering project or development solely conceived by the nominee and executed under their supervision, or a project or development to which the nominee had made the major engineering contribution.
In 2005 the Society of Engineers was absorbed by the Institution of Incorporated Engineers, now the IET. The Churchill Medal continues to be awarded today as The Joint Professional Engineering Institutions Churchill Medal and recognizes a team or individual for outstanding achievements and contributions to engineering and technical advancement in support of military operations.
Previous recipients
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2024/2025 |
Signaller Shaun Acar |
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2023/2024 |
HMS Vanguard Reactor Repair Support Team |
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2022/2023 |
HMS Audacious and C-Squadron DTXG Main Vent Repair Team, Submarine Service and Diving and Threat Exploitation Group, The Royal Navy |
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2021/2022 |
Warrant Officer First Class (Foreman of the Signals) Tom Wilson |
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2020/2021 |
Captain Fionidi Parker REME and Captain Ian Taylor REME |
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2019/2020 |
British Army Training Unit Suffield Workshop (BATUS) - Electronic Support Group |
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2018/2019 |
The Forward Mechanical Section of HMS ASTUTE |
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2017/2018 |
Chief Technician Peter Wakefield RAF |
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2016/2017 |
Royal Navy Submarine Mechanical Specialists |
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2015/2016 |
Corporal Bernard Donoghue RAF |
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2014/2015 |
UK/US Royal Signals Infantry Team |
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2013/2014 |
Sergeant Kevin Cuthbert REME |
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2012/2013 |
Captain Pip Lines REME |
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2011/2012 |
Sgt Simon Nurse RSignals |
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2010/2011 |
Flt Lt David Ramsey RAF |
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2004 |
Neil Jenkins |
|
1994 |
Professor Alan Wells |
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1990 |
Sir John Fox |
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1988 |
Ralph Tony Sarich |
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1986 |
Charles Thomas Elliott |
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1984 |
Professor William Alexander Gambling |
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1982 |
Harold John Musgrove |
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1980 |
No award made |
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1978 |
Sir John Rix |
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1976 |
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield |
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1974 |
Frank Reginald Farmer |
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1972 |
Francis Thomas Bacon |
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1970 |
Sir Gilbert Roberts |
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1968 |
Sir Stanley George Hooker |
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1966 |
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell |
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1964 |
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell |
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1962 |
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland |
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1960 |
Ernest Walter Hives, first Baron Hives |
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1958 |
Sir John Douglas Cockroft |
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1956 |
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside |
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1954 |
Sir William Wallace |
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1952 |
Sir Frank Whittle |
The Faraday Medallists
The Faraday Medal of the IET is a bronze medal established to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers.
The medal is awarded by the IET not more frequently than once a year (either for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology) without restriction as regards nationality, country of residence or membership of the Institution.
Names and post-nominal letters appear below as recorded in the Roll of Honorary Fellows and Faraday Medallists, held in the IET Archives.
Previous recipients
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2025 |
Professor Martin A Green AM FRS FAA FTS MNAE |
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2024 |
No award |
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2023 |
Professor Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj |
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2022 |
Professor Chad A Mirkin PhD |
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2021 |
John E E Fleming |
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2020 |
Professor Bashir Mohammad Ali Al-Hashimi CBE FREng |
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2019 |
Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS |
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2018 |
No award |
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2017 |
Dr Bjarne Stroustrup |
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2016 |
Dr Andrew Harter FREng |
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2015 |
Professor Kees Schouhamer Immink FIEEE FAES FSMPTE |
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2014 |
Regius Professor Christofer Toumazou FRS FREng FMedSci |
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2013 |
Professor Sir Michael Pepper |
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2012 |
Dr Leonardo Chiariglione |
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2011 |
Professor Donald E Knuth |
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2010 |
Professor Donal Bradley CBE FRS |
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2009 |
Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FREng FRS |
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2008 |
Professor J Kittler FREng |
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2007 |
Professor S B Furber FRS FREng |
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2006 |
Professor J V McCanny CBE FREng FRS FIAE |
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2005 |
Mr Azim H Premji |
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2004 |
Professor P M Grant FREng FRSE BSc PhD |
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2003 |
Professor Richard H Friend FRS FREng |
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2002 |
Sir Robin K Saxby BEng |
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2001 |
Professor C J Harris FREng |
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2000 |
Professor Michael Brady FREng MSc PhD FRS FIEE |
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1999 |
Professor P A McKeown OBE DSc FEng FIEE |
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1998 |
Professor R M Needham FRS FEng |
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1997 |
Professor J E Midwinter OBE BSc PhD FRS FEng |
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1996 |
S C Miller CBE BSc FEng |
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1995 |
Professor J D Rhodes OBE PhD DEng FRS FEng |
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1994 |
Dr J Parnaby CBE BSc PhD DEng DSc FEng |
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1993 |
Professor A G J MacFarlane CBE FRS FEng FRSE |
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1992 |
L Solymar MA PhD |
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1991 |
Dr A W Rudge OBE FEng |
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1990 |
Professor P J Lawrenson DSc FRS FEng |
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1989 |
Professor Charles K Kao BSc(Eng) PhD |
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1988 |
C Hilsum BSc PhD FEng FIEE FRS |
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1987 |
Professor D E N Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS |
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1986 |
Professor E D R Shearman BSc(Eng) FEng |
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1985 |
Professor C A R Hoare MA HonDSc FRS |
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1984 |
Professor A L Cullen OBE DSc(Eng) FEng FRS |
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1983 |
Professor W A Gambling DSc PhD FEng |
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1982 |
Professor B D Josephson MA PhD FRS |
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1981 |
Professor M V Wilkes MA PhD FRS |
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1980 |
Professor E A Ash PhD DSc FRS |
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1979 |
Robert N Noyce |
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1978 |
E Friedlander DrIng |
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1977 |
J B Adams CMG MA HonDSc FRS |
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1976 |
T O Paine AB MS PhD |
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1975 |
Professor John M Meek CBE DEng DSc |
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1974 |
G Millington MA BSc |
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1973 |
Professor Sir Nevill Mott MA FRS |
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1972 |
Professor F C Williams CBE DSc DPhil CEng FRS |
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1971 |
Professor Sir Martin Ryle MA CEng FRS |
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1970 |
Professor C W Oatley OBE MA MSc CEng FRS |
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1969 |
Dr Phillip Sporn EE |
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1968 |
Leslie Herbert Bedford CBE MA BSc(Eng) |
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1967 |
Professor Harold Everard M Barlow PhD BSc(Eng) FRS |
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1966 |
J A Ratcliffe CB CBE MA FRS |
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1965 |
Vladimir K Zworykin EE PhD DSc |
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1964 |
Joseph Ronald Mortlock BSc(Eng) PhD |
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1963 |
Monsieur Pierre M J Ailleret Commander de la Legion d’Honneur |
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1962 |
Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland CBE MA PhD FRS |
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1961 |
Dr Julius A Stratton ScD DEng |
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1960 |
Sir George Paget Thomson DSc FRS |
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1959 |
Signor Luigi Emmannueli |
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1958 |
Sir Gordon Radley KCB CBE PhD(Eng) |
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1957 |
Dr Waldemar Borgquist |
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1956 |
Emeritus Professor George William O Howe DSc LLD |
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1955 |
Sir John Cockcroft KCB CBE MA MScTech PhD FRS |
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1954 |
Isaac Shoenberg |
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1953 |
Colonel Sir A Stanley Angwin KBE DSO MC TD BSc(Eng) |
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1952 |
Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence AM PhD |
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1951 |
Thomas Lydwell Eckersley BA BSc PhD FRS |
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1950 |
Sir James Chadwick MSc PhD FRS |
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1949 |
Charles Samuel Franklin CBE |
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1948 |
Professor Marcus Lawrence Elwin Oliphant FRS |
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1947 |
Sir Leonard Pearce CBE DSc |
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1946 |
Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB MA DSc LLD FRS |
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1945 |
Sir Clifford Copland Paterson OBE DSc FRS |
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1944 |
Irving Langmuir LLD DSc PhD |
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1943 |
Sir Archibald Page |
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1942 |
Dr Peter Kapitza FRS |
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1941 |
Sir Arthur Percy M Fleming CBE DEng |
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1940 |
Alexander Russell MA DSc LLD FRS |
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1939 |
W D Coolidge BS PhD |
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1938 |
Sir John F C Snell GBE |
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1937 |
Professor Andre Blondel |
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1936 |
Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE MA DSc FRS |
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1935 |
Frank Baldwin Jewett PhD |
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1934 |
Sir Frank E Smith GCB GBE DSc FRS |
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1933 |
No award |
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1932 |
Sir Oliver Lodge DSc FRS |
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1931 |
Charles H Merz DSc |
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1930 |
The Rt Hon Lord Rutherford of Nelson |
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1929 |
Guido Semenza |
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1928 |
Professor John Ambrose Fleming MA DSc FRS |
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1927 |
Elihu Thomson DSc |
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1926 |
Colonel Rookes Evelyn B Crompton CB FRS |
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1925 |
Sir Joseph John Thomson OM MA FRS |
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1924 |
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti DSc FRS |
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1923 |
The Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS |
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1922 |
Oliver Heaviside FRS |
IET A F Harvey Research Prize
First awarded in 2011 in remembrance of the engineer Arthur Frank Harvey, this international prize is awarded annually.
The prize money which accompanies the award is to be used for the furtherance of scientific research in the fields of medical, microwave, laser or radar engineering, on a rotating basis.
Following Harvey's death, a trust was set up during his lifetime and the residue of his estate was left as a legacy to the IET.
The terms of the Trust specified that this money was to be used to further scientific research into the fields of medical, microwave, radar or laser engineering.
The Board of Trustees of the IET agreed that the available funds would be used to offer an annual research prize in one of these research fields each year, covering them all over a three-year cycle. The first award of the IET A F Harvey Research Prize was made in 2011.
A F Harvey (1910 - 2006)
Born in South Wales, Arthur Frank Harvey gained a BSc in Electrical Engineering subjects and was also awarded the Page Gold Medal for the best student in the Engineering Department at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff.
In 1930 Harvey was awarded a prestigious three-year Industrial Bursary from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. During this time, he worked as an engineering apprentice at the South Wales Power Company and then took up a college apprenticeship with Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company Ltd, Manchester.
After his bursary ended in 1934, he worked as a Technical Assistant at Johnson and Phillips Ltd in Charlton, London, and then from 1935-to 38 he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.
Harvey was admitted to the degree of D.Phil in April 1940 at Jesus College, University of Oxford. During this time he began work on high-frequency thermionic tubes, later moving to the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He continued to work on radar and microwave applications, including the magnetron, during and after the Second World War.
In 1939 Harvey joined the Ministry of Supply as a Scientific Officer, becoming Senior Scientific Officer in 1946 and Principal Scientific Officer in 1950. In 1960 Harvey won the IEEE Microwave Prize for his paper on “Periodic and guiding structures at microwave frequencies". By the 1980s Harvey had moved to work for the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern. During this period his work included research and development on millimetre wavelengths, ferrite devices, quantum electronics and coherent-light techniques.
Harvey wrote several papers and published two books on microwaves and lasers.
Previous recipients
|
2024 |
Professor Changzhi Li |
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|
2023 |
Professor Rachel McKendry |
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|
2022 |
John C. Travers |
John C. Travers is a Professor of Physics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and director of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Physics and Optics. |
|
2021 |
Professor Mona Jarrahi |
Professor Mona Jarrahi is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory. |
|
2020 |
Professor Gregoire Courtine |
Professor Gregoire Courtine was awarded the IET A F Harvey Prize in 2020 in recognition of his work in electrical spinal cord stimulation to modulate the circuits that produce movement. Combined with rehabilitative training, these targeted neuromodulation strategies restored walking and improved neurological recovery in people with spinal cord injury, but the same strategy may also enable the recovery of arm and hand movements. The prize funding will allow him to study this possibility. |
|
2019 |
Professor Jelena Vuckovic |
Professor Jelena Vuckovic is awarded the IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize 2019 in recognition of her outstanding contributions to research in the field of lasers and optoelectronics, specifically ultralow threshold photonic crystal lasers and attojoule optoelectronics, on-chip quantum photonics, and development of photonics inverse design method. |
|
2018 |
Professor Mário G. Silveirinha |
In recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of radar and microwave engineering, specifically in the electrodynamics of metamaterials and its applications to microwave components and devices. |
|
2017 |
Professor Rui L. Reis |
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in medical engineering, specifically for contributions to bioengineering, biomedical engineering, tissue engineering and biomaterials, namely on the development of unique natural origin biomimetic scaffolds combined with specific adult stem cells for the regeneration of different human tissues. |
|
2016 |
Dr Arseniy Kuznetsov |
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in the field of Lasers and Optoelectronics, as well as pioneering research on dielectric nanoantennas, a new branch of nanophotonics, which studies the behaviour and use of light in nanoscale projects. |
|
2015 |
Professor Yang Hao |
In recognition of his research achievements in microwaves, antennas and, in particular, metamaterial antenna innovations drawing inspiration from transformation optics. |
|
2014 |
Professor Eleanor Stride |
In recognition of her outstanding contributions to research in the field of medical engineering, specifically in biomedical ultrasound and the development of novel agents and fabrication techniques for drug delivery systems engineering. |
|
2013 |
Professor Stuart Wenham |
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in the field of lasers and optoelectronics, specifically for his pioneering laser use in advanced silicon solar cell contact formation. |
|
2012 |
Professor Hugh Griffiths |
For his outstanding contributions to radar research and his continuing work to make major improvements in bistatic radar and its applications. |
|
2011 |
Dr Edward S Boyden |
For his pioneering research contributions to, and development of, the field of optogenetics, which has the potential to enable new approaches to therapy. |
The Mountbatten Medallists
First awarded in 1992, the Mountbatten Medal is named after The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the first Chairman of the National Electronics Council.
The Mountbatten Medal
The Mountbatten Medal was established by the National Electronics Council in 1992.
The Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding contribution, or contributions over a period, to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application.
Names and post-nominal letters appear in the list below as recorded in the Roll of Mountbatten Medallists, held in the IET Archives.
Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900 - 1979)
Naval officer and statesman. In 1929, Mountbatten was placed in charge of wireless instruction at Portsmouth.
Finding the teaching materials inadequate, he set up a drawing school to produce standardised drawings of every wireless circuit for the Admiralty Handbook.
In 1931, Mountbatten was appointed Fleet Wireless Officer in the Mediterranean.
In 1943, he became Supreme Allied Commander of the South East Asia Command.
After the war, Mountbatten was appointed Viceroy of India, a post he held until independence in 1948, and in 1955 became First Sea Lord.
He was President of the IERE in 1947 and 1961.
Previous recipients
|
2025 |
Professor Steve Hodges BSc PhD FIET FIEEE |
|
2024 |
Alan H Weinberg |
|
2023 |
No recipient |
|
2022 |
Dr Santokh S Badesha PhD DSc MNAE FNAI FRSC CSci |
|
2021 |
Professor Nick McKeown |
|
2020 |
Dr Tong Boon Tang BEng PhD |
|
2019 |
Dr Irwin Mark Jacobs ScD HonFIET |
|
2018 |
Professor William Webb FREng BEng MBA PhD DSc DTech CEng FIET FIEEE |
|
2017 |
Professor Shuji Nakamura |
|
2016 |
Professor Jean Armstrong BSc MSc PhD FIEAust FIEEE MIET |
|
2015 |
Dr Alan Finkel AO FTSE FIEAust |
|
2014 |
Dr Ronjon Nag BSc SM PhD FIET |
|
2013 |
Dr Ian Nussey OBE FREng HonFIET |
|
2012 |
Professor Vincent Fusco FREng BSc PhD DSc CEng FIET |
|
2011 |
Professor Peter William McOwan BSc MSc PhD MIET CSci FBCS |
|
2010 |
Eli Yablonovitch |
|
2009 |
David Ogden |
|
2008 |
Professor Kevin Warwick BSc PhD DIC DSc(Eng) FCGI CEng |
|
2007 |
Professor Andrew Blake FREng FRS |
|
2006 |
Mr John P Leighfield CBE |
|
2005 |
Sir David Brown FREng BSc DMS CEng FIEE |
|
2004 |
Professor Andy Hopper FREng BSc PhD CEng FIEE |
|
2003 |
No recpient |
|
2002 |
No recpient |
|
2001 |
Professor David N Payne FRS |
|
2000 |
Dr Hermann Hauser |
|
1999 |
Mrs Steve Shirley OBE BSc CEng FBCS |
|
1998 |
J David Rhodes OBE FEng FRS |
|
1997 |
Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FEng FRS & Professor Maurice V Wilkes FRS FEng |
|
1996 |
Tim Berners-Lee |
|
1995 |
Peter Bonfield CBE FEng |
|
1994 |
Dr David Potter MA PhD |
|
1993 |
Professor W A Gambling PhD DSc FEng FRS HonFIEE |
|
1992 |
Sir Ernest Harrison OBE FCA CompanionIEE HonFCGI |