Edgeworth David Medal

The Edgeworth David Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Society of New South Wales for distinguished contributions by a young scientist under the age of 35 years for work done predominantly in Australia or which contributed to the advancement of Australian science.[1][2][3][4]

It was first awarded in 1949 and is named after the pioneering geologist Sir Edgeworth David, FRS.

Recipients

Source: RSNSW

Year Laureates Discipline
1948 Ronald Gordon Giovanelli
E. Ritchie		 Astrophysics
Organic Chemistry
1949 Temple B. Kiely Plant Pathology
1950 Ronald Murray Berndt & Catherine H. Berndt[5] Anthropology
1951 John Gatenby Bolton Radio Astronomy
1952 Alan Buchanan Wardrop Botany
1954 Eric Stephen Barnes Mathematics
1955 Hugh Bryan Spencer Womersley[6] Botany
1956 John Maxwell Cowley Chemical Physics
1957 John Maxwell Cowley
John Paul Wild		 Chemical Physics
Radio Astronomy
1958 Paul Ivan Korner Physiology
1960 Ronald Drayton Brown[7] Chemistry
1961 Ralph Owen Slatyer[8] Climatology
1962 Ray F. Isbell Soil Science
1963 Neville Horner Fletcher Physics
1964 Mollie Elizabeth Holman Physiology
1965 John L. Dillon Agricultural Economics
1966 Roger Ian Tanner Mechanical Engineering
1967 David Headley Green[9]
William James Peacock		 Geology
Botany
1968 Robert McCredie May[10] Physics
1969 Barry W. Ninham Physics
1970 A. David Buckingham Inorganic Chemistry
1971 William Francis Budd Glaciology
1972 Donald Harold Napper[11]
J. Stone		 Physical Chemistry
Physiology
1973 Charles Barry Osmond Plant Biology
1974 Allan Whitenack Snyder[12] Physics
1975 F. John Ballard Biochemistry
1976 Ross Howard Street Mathematics
1977 Robert Anthony Antonia Mechanical Engineering
1978 T.W. Cole
Michael G. Clark		 Astronomy
Physiology
1979 Graham Clifford Goodwin Electrical Engineering
1980 Michael Anthony Etheridge Geology
1981 Martin Andrew Green Applied Physics
1982 Nhan Phan-Thien[13] Mechanics
1983 Denis Wakefield Ocular Immunology
1984 Alan James Husband Pathology
1985 Simon Charles Gandevia
Brian James Morris[14]		 Clinical Neurophysiology
Molecular Biology
1986 Leslie David Field
Peter Gavin Hall		 Chemistry
Statistics
1987 Andrew Cockburn[15] Zoology
1988 Peter Andrew Lay Inorganic Chemistry
1989 Trevor William Hambley[16] Chemistry
1990 Timothy Fridjof Flannery[17] Taxonomy & Phylogeny – Macropodidea
1991 Mark Harvey Taxonomy – Invertebrates
1992 Peter James Goadsby
Keith Alexander Nugent[18]		 Neurophysiology
Optics
1993 John Skerritt[1] Agriculture (Genetics)
1994 Richard Hume Middleton[19] Electrical Engineering
1995 Anthony Bruce Murphy Physics
1996 Peter Alexander Robinson Physics
1997 Albert Zomaya[20] Mathematics
1998 Not awarded
1999 Merlin Crossley[21] Molecular Biology
2000 Michael Coon Yoong Lee Zoology
2001 Samantha Richardson Evolution
2002 Marcela Bilek Physics
2003 Stuart Robert Batten Chemistry
2004 Cameron Kepert Chemistry
2005 Christopher Barner-Kowollik Chemistry
2006 Barry Brook[22] Environmental Science
2007 Stuart Wyithe Astrophysics
2008 Adam Micolich[23] Physics
2009 Nagarajan Valanoor Materials Science
2010 Angela Moles[24] Botany
2011 Trent Woodruff[25] Pharmacology
2012 Joanne Whittaker[26] Geophysics
2013 David Wilson[27] Mathematics and Public Health
2014 Richard Payne Chemistry
2015 Simon Ho Biology and evolution
2016 Muireann Irish Neuroscience
2017 Angela Nickerson Psychology
2018 Elizabeth J. New Chemistry
2019 Si Ming Man Immunology
2020 Brett Hallam[28] Photovoltaics
2021 Lining Arnold Ju[1] Biomechanics
2022 Tim S. Doherty[29] Predator–Prey Dynamics

See also

References

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