The Bessemer Gold Medal is awarded annually by the

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) is a UK engineering institution whose activities encompass the whole materials cycle, from exploration and extraction, through characterisation, processing, forming, finishing and applicatio ...

(IOM3) "for outstanding services to the steel industry, to the inventor or designer of any significant innovation in the process employed in the manufacture of steel, or for innovation in the use of steel in the manufacturing industry or the economy generally". The recipient is expected to prepare and deliver the Bessemer Lecture. It was established and endowed to the

Iron and Steel Institute The Iron and Steel Institute was an English association organized by the iron trade of the north of England. Its object was the discussion of practical and scientific questions connected with the manufacture of iron and steel. History The first mee ...

in 1874 by Sir

Henry Bessemer Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950. He ...

and was first awarded to

Isaac Lowthian Bell Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet, FRS (18 February 1816 – 20 December 1904) was a Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, County Durham, in the north of England. He was described as being "as famous in his day ...

in 1874. The Iron and Steel Institute merged in 1974 into the Institute of Metals, which in 1993 became part of the Institute of Materials, which in turn became part of the IOM3 in 2002.

Prizewinners

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IOM3

*2020 David Anthony Worsley *2019 J Bolton *2018 I Samarasekera *2017 J Speer *2016 A W Cramb *2015 John Beynon *2014 H Tomono *2013

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he served as the consort of the British monarch from El ...

*2013 K Mills *2012 G Honeyman *2011 I Christmas *2010 M Sellars *2009 G Arvedi *2008 T Mukherjee *2007 L Mittal *2006 H Bhadeshia *2005 S I Pettifor *2004 R J Fruehan *2003 J P Birat *2002 R E Dolby

Institute of Materials

*2001 M J Pettifor *2000 Terry Gladman *1999 Etham T Turkdogan *1998 R Baker *1997 F Kenneth Iverson *1996 Sir Brian Moffat *1995 P Wright *1994 F B Pickering *1993 H Saito

Institute of Metals

*1992 C E H Morris *1991 Frank Fitzgerald *1990 J S Pennington *1989 Gerald R Heffernan *1988 Sir R Scholey *1987 Tae-Joon Park *1986

J.R.D. Tata Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French-Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group. Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy ...

*1985 Viscount E Davignon

Metals Society

*1984 P Metz *1983 I K MacGregor *1982 G W van Stein Callenfels *1981 Sir I McLennan *1980 M Tenenbaum *1979 H O H Haavisto *1978 Karl Brotzmann *1977 H Morrogh *1976 J D Joy *1975 Richard Weck *1974 Sir M Finniston

Iron and Steel Institute

*1973 J W Menter *1972 M Morgan *1971 A G Quarrell *1970 P Coheur *1969

Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. She was queen ...

*1968 F D Richardson *1967 E T Judge *1966 John Hugh Chesters *1965 T Sendzimir *1965 N P Allen *1964 H Malcor *1963 F H Saniter *1962 Sir

Charles Goodeve Sir Charles Frederick Goodeve (21 February 1904 – 7 April 1980) was a Canadian chemist and pioneer in operations research. During World War II, he was instrumental in developing the "hedgehog" antisubmarine warfare weapon and the degaussing me ...

*1961 W Barr *1960 Hermann Schenck *1959 B M S Kalling *1958 W F Cartwright *1957 R Durrer *1956 C Sykes *1955 J Chipman *1954 T P Colclough *1953 R Mather *1952 H H Burton *1951 B F Fairless *1950 J Mitchell *1948 W J Dawson *1947 K M Tigerchiold *1947 Sir William J Larke *1946 J S Hollings *1945 Harold Wright *1944 E Lewis *1943 J H Whiteley *1942 E G Grace *1941 T Swinden *1940 Sir Andrew McCance *1939 J Henderson *1938 C H Desch *1937 Colonel N. T. Belaiew *1937 A Mayer *1936 F Clements *1935 A M Portevin *1934

King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Que ...

*1933 W H Hatfield *1932 H Louis *1931 Sir Harold Carpenter *1930 W Rosenhain *1930 E Schneider *1929 Sir Charles A Parsons *1928 C M Schwab *1927 Axel Wahlberg *1926 Sir Hugh Bel *1925 T Turner *1924 A Sauveur *1923 W H Maw *1922 K Honda *1921 C Freemont *1920 H Brearley *1919 Federico Giolitti *1918 The Rt Hon Lord Invernairn of Strathnairn *1917 A Lamberton *1916 F W Harbord *1915 P Martin *1914 Edward Riley *1913 A Greiner *1912 J H Darby *1911 H L Le Chatelier *1910 E H Saniter *1909 A Pourcel *1908 B Talbot *1907 J A Brinell *1906 F Osmond *1906

King Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...

*1905 John Oliver Arnold, J O Arnold *1904 Andrew Carnegie, A Carnegie *1904 Sir Robert Hadfield, R Hadfield *1903 The Rt Hon James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale, Lord Airedale of Gledhow *1902 Friedrich Alfred Krupp, F A Krupp *1901 John Edward Stead, J E Stead *1900 Henri de Wendel *1899 H M Queen Victoria *1898 R Prince-Williams *1897 Sir Frederick Abel *1896 H Wedding *1895 Henry Marion Howe, H M Howe *1894 John Gjers *1893 John Fritz, J Fritz *1892 Arthur Cooper (metallurgist), A Cooper *1891 The Rt Hon William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Lord Armstrong *1890 William Daniel Allen, W D Allen *1890 Hon Abram Hewitt, A S Hewitt *1889 John Devonshire Ellis, J D Ellis *1889 Henri Schneider, H Schneider *1888 Daniel Adamson, D Adamson *1887 James Riley *1886 Edward Williams *1885 Richard Akerman (metallurgist), R Akerman *1884 Edward Pritchard Martin, E P Martin *1884 Edward Windsor Richards, E W Richards *1883 George James Snelus, G J Snelus *1883 Sidney Gilchrist Thomas *1882 Alexander Lyman Holley, A L Holley *1881 William Menelaus, W Menelaus *1880 Sir Joseph Whitworth, J Whitworth *1879 P Cooper *1878 Peter Ritter von Tunner, P R von Tunner *1877 John Percy (metallurgist), J Percy *1876 Robert Forester Mushet, R F Mushet *1875 Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, C W Siemens *1874 Sir Lowthian Bell

References

{{reflist Chemical engineering awards Awards established in 1874 Bessemer Gold Medal British awards Steel industry of the United Kingdom