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
2023/2024
HMS Vanguard Reactor Repair Support Team
2022/2023
HMS Audacious and C-Squadron DTXG Main Vent Repair Team, Submarine Service and Diving and Threat Exploitation Group, The Royal Navy
2021/2022
Warrant Officer First Class (Foreman of the Signals) Tom Wilson
2020/2021
Captain Fionidi Parker REME and Captain Ian Taylor REME
2019/2020
British Army Training Unit Suffield Workshop (BATUS) - Electronic Support Group
2018/2019
The Forward Mechanical Section of HMS ASTUTE
2017/2018
Chief Technician Peter Wakefield RAF
2016/2017
Royal Navy Submarine Mechanical Specialists
2015/2016
Corporal Bernard Donoghue RAF
2014/2015
UK/US Royal Signals Infantry Team
2013/2014
Sergeant Kevin Cuthbert REME
2012/2013
Captain Pip Lines REME
2011/2012
Sgt Simon Nurse RSignals
2010/2011
Flt Lt David Ramsey RAF
2004
Neil Jenkins
1994
Professor Alan Wells
1990
Sir John Fox
1988
Ralph Tony Sarich
1986
Charles Thomas Elliott
1984
Professor William Alexander Gambling
1982
Harold John Musgrove
1980
No award made
1978
Sir John Rix
1976
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
1974
Frank Reginald Farmer
1972
Francis Thomas Bacon
1970
Sir Gilbert Roberts
1968
Sir Stanley George Hooker
1966
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell
1964
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
1962
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
1960
Ernest Walter Hives, first Baron Hives
1958
Sir John Douglas Cockroft
1956
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside
1954
Sir William Wallace
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
2024
No award
2023
Professor Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj
2022
Professor Chad A Mirkin PhD
2021
John E E Fleming
2020
Professor Bashir Mohammad Ali Al-Hashimi CBE FREng
2019
Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS
2018
No award
2017
Dr Bjarne Stroustrup
2016
Dr Andrew Harter FREng
2015
Professor Kees Schouhamer Immink FIEEE FAES FSMPTE
2014
Regius Professor Christofer Toumazou FRS FREng FMedSci
2013
Professor Sir Michael Pepper
2012
Dr Leonardo Chiariglione
2011
Professor Donald E Knuth
2010
Professor Donal Bradley CBE FRS
2009
Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FREng FRS
2008
Professor J Kittler FREng
2007
Professor S B Furber FRS FREng
2006
Professor J V McCanny CBE FREng FRS FIAE
2005
Mr Azim H Premji
2004
Professor P M Grant FREng FRSE BSc PhD
2003
Professor Richard H Friend FRS FREng
2002
Sir Robin K Saxby BEng
2001
Professor C J Harris FREng
2000
Professor Michael Brady FREng MSc PhD FRS FIEE
1999
Professor P A McKeown OBE DSc FEng FIEE
1998
Professor R M Needham FRS FEng
1997
Professor J E Midwinter OBE BSc PhD FRS FEng
1996
S C Miller CBE BSc FEng
1995
Professor J D Rhodes OBE PhD DEng FRS FEng
1994
Dr J Parnaby CBE BSc PhD DEng DSc FEng
1993
Professor A G J MacFarlane CBE FRS FEng FRSE
1992
L Solymar MA PhD
1991
Dr A W Rudge OBE FEng
1990
Professor P J Lawrenson DSc FRS FEng
1989
Professor Charles K Kao BSc(Eng) PhD
1988
C Hilsum BSc PhD FEng FIEE FRS
1987
Professor D E N Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS
1986
Professor E D R Shearman BSc(Eng) FEng
1985
Professor C A R Hoare MA HonDSc FRS
1984
Professor A L Cullen OBE DSc(Eng) FEng FRS
1983
Professor W A Gambling DSc PhD FEng
1982
Professor B D Josephson MA PhD FRS
1981
Professor M V Wilkes MA PhD FRS
1980
Professor E A Ash PhD DSc FRS
1979
Robert N Noyce
1978
E Friedlander DrIng
1977
J B Adams CMG MA HonDSc FRS
1976
T O Paine AB MS PhD
1975
Professor John M Meek CBE DEng DSc
1974
G Millington MA BSc
1973
Professor Sir Nevill Mott MA FRS
1972
Professor F C Williams CBE DSc DPhil CEng FRS
1971
Professor Sir Martin Ryle MA CEng FRS
1970
Professor C W Oatley OBE MA MSc CEng FRS
1969
Dr Phillip Sporn EE
1968
Leslie Herbert Bedford CBE MA BSc(Eng)
1967
Professor Harold Everard M Barlow PhD BSc(Eng) FRS
1966
J A Ratcliffe CB CBE MA FRS
1965
Vladimir K Zworykin EE PhD DSc
1964
Joseph Ronald Mortlock BSc(Eng) PhD
1963
Monsieur Pierre M J Ailleret Commander de la Legion d’Honneur
1962
Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland CBE MA PhD FRS
1961
Dr Julius A Stratton ScD DEng
1960
Sir George Paget Thomson DSc FRS
1959
Signor Luigi Emmannueli
1958
Sir Gordon Radley KCB CBE PhD(Eng)
1957
Dr Waldemar Borgquist
1956
Emeritus Professor George William O Howe DSc LLD
1955
Sir John Cockcroft KCB CBE MA MScTech PhD FRS
1954
Isaac Shoenberg
1953
Colonel Sir A Stanley Angwin KBE DSO MC TD BSc(Eng)
1952
Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence AM PhD
1951
Thomas Lydwell Eckersley BA BSc PhD FRS
1950
Sir James Chadwick MSc PhD FRS
1949
Charles Samuel Franklin CBE
1948
Professor Marcus Lawrence Elwin Oliphant FRS
1947
Sir Leonard Pearce CBE DSc
1946
Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB MA DSc LLD FRS
1945
Sir Clifford Copland Paterson OBE DSc FRS
1944
Irving Langmuir LLD DSc PhD
1943
Sir Archibald Page
1942
Dr Peter Kapitza FRS
1941
Sir Arthur Percy M Fleming CBE DEng
1940
Alexander Russell MA DSc LLD FRS
1939
W D Coolidge BS PhD
1938
Sir John F C Snell GBE
1937
Professor Andre Blondel
1936
Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE MA DSc FRS
1935
Frank Baldwin Jewett PhD
1934
Sir Frank E Smith GCB GBE DSc FRS
1933
No award
1932
Sir Oliver Lodge DSc FRS
1931
Charles H Merz DSc
1930
The Rt Hon Lord Rutherford of Nelson
1929
Guido Semenza
1928
Professor John Ambrose Fleming MA DSc FRS
1927
Elihu Thomson DSc
1926
Colonel Rookes Evelyn B Crompton CB FRS
1925
Sir Joseph John Thomson OM MA FRS
1924
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti DSc FRS
1923
The Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS
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)
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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
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2024
Professor Changzhi Li
2023
Professor Rachel McKendry
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)
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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
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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
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