The Prince Philip Medal

(solid gold)

In 1989 HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Senior Fellow of The Royal Academy of of Engineering, agreed to the commissioning of a gold medal to be ‘awarded biennially to an engineer of any nationality who has made an exceptional contribution to engineering as a whole through practice, management or education’, to be known as the Prince Philip Medal.

The Prince Philip Medal will not be awarded in 2013. The call for nominations for the 2014 award will open later this year.

Recipients

2012

Naeem Hussain
Global Bridge Design Practice Leader, Arup

Awarded for his groundbreaking work on some of the world’s most iconic bridges. His portfolio includes the world’s second longest cable-stay Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong, the multi award-winning Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester and the Oresund road and rail crossing between Sweden and Denmark.

[2012 News Release]

2010

Professor John Davidson FREng FRS

Professor Davidson has made major contributions to chemical engineering on a global scale, most notably in the area of research in multi-phase flow in fluidisation and bubble flow, publishing over 250 papers in this field. He is currently working on key projects such as clean coal combustion which looks to underpin the design of zero-emission coal-fired power plants.

[2010 News Release]

2008

Ron Dennis

Recognising him for his leadership and entrepreneurial skills in building the McLaren Group into a major international brand. Through his leadership he has not only contributed to the discipline of engineering but also to the public perception of engineering inspiring future young engineers in the process.

[2008 News Release]

2006

Professor Olek Zienkiewicz CBE FREng FRS

The Academy is to confer its Prince Philip Medal to Professor Zienkiewicz, Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is widely regarded as the "Father of the Finite Element Method", for outstanding contributions spanning the wide field of mechanics and engineering

[2006 News Release]

2005

Professor James Dooge FREng
Retired Chair in Civil Engineering, University College Dublin

The Royal Academy of Engineering is to award its 2005 Prince Philip Medal to Professor James Dooge FREng, retired Chair in Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, recognising him as an outstanding figure in the field of hydrology.

[2005 News Release]

2004

Professor William Bonfield
Professor of Medical materials at the University of Cambridge

Professor William Bonfield CBE, FREng, FRS, Professor of Medical materials at the University of Cambridge, has won this year’s prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering’s Prince Philip Medal.

[2004 News Release]

2003

Professor David Rhodes
Executive Chairman of Filtronic plc

'In recognition for his outstanding research expertise in communications technology which he developed into a highly successful world-wide company.'

[2003 News Release]

2001

Philip Ruffles
CBE FREng FRS RDI
Former engineering and Technology Director, Rolls-Royce plc.

‘in recognition of his exceptional contribution to engineering with Rolls-Royce, the aeroengine industry and the UK’.

[2001 News Release]

2000

Sir Alec Broers
FREng FRS
Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

‘in recognition of his achievements both as a pioneer in the world of miniature electronic circuits on silicon chips and also in building the university's links with industry so that Cambridge is now a major economic force’.

1999

Sir John Browne
FREng
Group Chief Executive, BP AMOCO plc

‘in recognition of his exceptional contribution to engineering in a distinguished career of over 30 years with BP, acknowledging both his early technological successes and latterly his outstanding management skills, culminating in the creation of Britain's biggest company through BP's £30.3 billion merger with Amoco’.

1997

Professor John Argyris
FREng FRS
formerly Director, Institute of
Computer Applications,
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Dr Ray W Clough
Nishkian Professor of Structural
Engineering, Emeritus,
University of California, Berkeley, USA

‘in recognition of their outstanding contribution to engineering design through the formulation and development of the finite element method of analysis’.

1996

Dr Charles Kao
CBE FRS FREng
formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

‘for his pioneering work which led to the invention of optical fibre and for his leadership in its engineering and commercial realisation; and for his distinguished contribution to higher education in Hong Kong’.

1992

Sir Denis Rooke
OM CBE FRS FREng
formerly Chairman, British Gas plc

‘for his inspired engineering leadership in the modernisation of the gas industry, the exploration, transportation and use of liquid natural gas and the conversion of the United Kingdom to its use’.

1991

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle
OM KBE CB FREng FRS

‘in recognition of his vision, determination and engineering genius in developing the jet engine which had led to the transformation of air travel within his lifetime’.