Davy Medal

The Davy Medal is the highest British award for scientists in the field of chemistry. It is made of bronze and is awarded annually since 1877 by the Royal Society. It is named after the British chemist and physicist Humphry Davy. The Davy Medal is endowed with £ 1,000.

List of winners

Raoul Pictet Charles Friedel Marcellin Berthelot Jean Stas Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac William Henry Perkin Hermann Emil Fischer Viktor Meyer Per Teodor Cleve William Ramsay John Hall Gladstone Johannes Wislicenus Wilhelm Körner Svante Arrhenius Pierre Curie Albert Ladenburg Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig William A. Tilden James Dewar Theodore William Richards Henry Edward Armstrong Otto Wallach William Jackson Pope Paul Sabatier (chemist) Henry Louis Le Chatelier Frederick Kipping Herbert Brereton Baker James Walker (chemist) Frederick G. Donnan Robert Robinson (organic chemist) Arthur Lapworth Arthur Harden Hans Fischer George Barger Harold Urey Henry Drysdale Dakin Ian Heilbron Edmund Hirst Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd John Lennard-Jones Kathleen Lonsdale Robert Burns Woodward Derek Barton Melvin Calvin Vladimir Prelog George Porter Arthur Birch (organic chemist) John Stuart Anderson Rex Richards (chemist) Alan R. Battersby Albert Eschenmoser Joseph Chatt Michael J. S. Dewar Duilio Arigoni Sam Edwards (physicist) Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham F. Gordon A. Stone Alan Carrington Jack Baldwin (chemist) John Meurig Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson Jean-Marie Lehn Alan Fersht Steven V. Ley Neil Bartlett (chemist) Martin Pope Fraser Stoddart

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