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This is a list of winners of the biennial Makdougall Brisbane Prize for particular distinction in the promotion of scientific research, latterly restyled as the annually awarded Makdougall Brisbane Medal for early career achievement in the physical sciences, of the
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. It is not to be confused with the similarly named award given by the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. ;Makdougall Brisbane Prize Sources (to 2002)
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*1859 –
Roderick Murchison Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scotland, Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigat ...
*1860–62 – William Seller *1862–64 – Sir
John Denis Macdonald Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Sir John Denis Macdonald (26 October 1826 – 7 February 1908) was a naval surgeon. Navy career He was born in Cork (city), Cork, County Cork, Ireland, the son of James Macdonald, an artist, art criti ...
*1864–66 *1866–68 – Alexander Crum Brown and Thomas Richard Fraser (joint) *1868–70 – ''Not awarded'' *1870–72 – George Allman *1872–74 – Joseph Lister *1874–76 – Alexander Buchan *1876–78 – Archibald Geikie *1878–80 – Charles Piazzi Smyth *1880–82 – James Geikie *1882–84 – Edward Sang *1884–86 – Sir John Murray *1886–88 – Archibald Geikie (only Fellow twice awarded the prize) *1888–90 – Ludwig Becker *1890–92 –
Hugh Robert Mill Hugh Robert Mill (28 May 1861 – 5 April 1950) was a British geographer and meteorologist who was influential in the reform of geography teaching, and in the development of meteorology as a science. He was President of the Royal Meteorologica ...
*1892–94 – James Walker *1894–96 – John Gray McKendrick *1896–98 – William Peddie *1898–1900 –
Ramsay Traquair Ramsay Heatley Traquair Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society of London, FRS (30 July 1840 – 22 November 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish. Tra ...
*1900–02 – Arthur T. Masterman *1902–04 – John Dougall *1904–06 –
Jakob Karl Ernst Halm Jakob Karl Ernst Halm (1866 – 1944) was a pioneer of stellar dynamics and the first person to suggest the existence of a mass–luminosity relation for stars. Early life Halm was born at Bingen am Rhein, Kingdom of Prussia on 30 November 1866. ...
*1906–08 – David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan *1908–10 –
Ernest Wedderburn Sir Ernest MacLagan Wedderburn (3 February 1884 – 3 June 1958) was a Scottish lawyer, and a significant figure both in the civic life of Edinburgh and in the legal establishment. He held the posts of Professor of Conveyancing in the Universi ...
*1910–12 – John Brownlee *1912–14 –
Charles Robertson Marshall Charles Robertson Marshall FRSE was an early 20th century British physician. Life In May 1894 he became assistant to Prof John Buckley Bradbury at Cambridge University. He left in 1899 to become Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at ...
*1914–16 – Robert Alexander Houstoun *1916–18 – Abercrombie Lawson *1918–20 – Joseph Wedderburn *1920–22 –
William Thomas Gordon William Thomas Gordon FRSE FGS FGSE FLS FGA (1884–1950) was a Scottish palaeontologist and palaeobotanist in the early 20th century. He was also an expert on diamonds and gemstones and assisted Hatton Garden in the testing of rare stones. Li ...
*1922–24 –
Herbert Stanley Allen Herbert Stanley Allen FRSE FRS (29 December 1873 – 27 April 1954) was an English physicist noted as a pioneer in early X-ray research, working under J. J. Thomson at the University of London and alongside Nobel laureate Charles Glover Barkla ...
*1924–26 –
Charles Morley Wenyon Charles Morley Wenyon (1878–1948) was a distinguished English protozoologist. Honours and prizes Wenyon was awarded many honours and prizes for his work during his lifetime including: * The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize of the Royal Society o ...
, protozoologist *1926–28 – William Ogilvy Kermack *1928–30 *1930–32 –
Alexander Aitken Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken (1 April 1895 – 3 November 1967) was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation fo ...
*1932–34 – Alfred Ernest Henderson Cameron *1934–36 –
Ernest Masson Anderson Ernest Masson Anderson FRSE FGS (1877–1960) was a Scottish geologist. Ernest was born in Falkirk and educated at Falkirk High School and the High School of Dundee before attending the University of Edinburgh The University of Edinbur ...
*1936–38 –
David Meredith Seares Watson Prof David Meredith Seares Watson FRS FGS HFRSE LLD (18 June 1886 – 23 July 1973) was the Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College, London from 1921 to 1951. Biography Early life Watson was born in the Highe ...
*1938–40 –
Edward Lindsay Ince Prof Edward Lindsay Ince FRSE (30 November 1891 – 16 March 1941) was a British mathematician who worked on differential equations, especially those with periodic coefficients such as the Mathieu equation and the Lamé equation. He introduced the ...
*1940–42 – William Wright Smith *1942–44 –
Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a n ...
and Peng Huanwu *1944–46 –
William Black William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...
*1946–48 -
Mowbray Ritchie Mowbray Ritchie FRSE (5 October 1905 – 2 September 1966) was a 20th-century Scottish chemist and scientific author. He was a friend and colleague of Sir Edmund Hirst. Life Ritchie was born in Peebles on 5 October 1905, and was educated at Peeb ...
*1948–50 *1950–52 –
Edward Maitland Wright Sir Edward Maitland Wright (13 February 1906, Farnley – 2 February 2005, Reading) was an English mathematician, best known for co-authoring ''An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers'' with G. H. Hardy. Career He was born in Farnl ...
*1952–54 – William Charles Osman Hill *1954–56 –
Maurice Yonge Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, CBE, FRS FRSE (9 December 1899 – 17 March 1986) was an English marine zoologist. Life Charles Maurice Yonge was born in Silcoates School near Wakefield in Yorkshire in 1899 the son of John Arthur Yonge (1865-1946 ...
*1956–58 –
Ian Sneddon Prof Ian Naismith Sneddon FRS FRSE FIMA OBE (8 December 1919 Glasgow, Scotland – 4 November 2000 Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish mathematician who worked on analysis and applied mathematics. Life Sneddon was born in Glasgow on 8 Dece ...
*1958–60 *1960–62 –
Edward McWilliam Patterson Edward McWilliam Patterson, FRSE (30 July 1926 – 5 April 2013) was an English mathematician. He was born in Whitby, North Yorkshire, the son of parents from Northern Ireland, and educated at the local Lady Lumley's school and Leeds University, ...
*1962–64 –
Arthur Holmes Arthur Holmes (14 January 1890 – 20 September 1965) was an English geologist who made two major contributions to the understanding of geology. He pioneered the use of radiometric dating of minerals, and was the first earth scientist to grasp ...
*1964–66 –
Daniel Edwin Rutherford Daniel Edwin Rutherford FRSE (4 January 1906, in Stirling – 9 November 1966, in St Andrews) was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups. Biography Rutherford completed his secondary educatio ...
*1966–68 – James Norman Davidson *1968–70 –
Norman Feather Norman Feather FRS FRSE PRSE (16 November 1904 – 14 August 1978), was an English nuclear physicist. Feather and Egon Bretscher were working at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1940, when they proposed that the 239 isotope of element 9 ...
*1970–72 *1972–74 – David Paton Cuthbertson *1974–76 –
Frederick Valentine Atkinson Frederick Valentine "Derick" Atkinson (25 January 1916 – 13 November 2002) was a British mathematician, formerly of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he spent most of his career. Atkinson's theorem and Atkinson–Wilcox theorem are nam ...
*1976–78 *1978–80 –
Walter Eric Spear Walter Eric Spear FRSE PhD FRS FInstP (20 January 1921 – 21 February 2008) was a German physicist noted for his pioneering work to help develop large area electronics and thin film displays. He was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish father and a ...
*1980–82 – William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett *1982–84 – John Henderson Knox *1984–86 – Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith *1988 *1990 *1992 – Tom Brown, University of Oxford *1994 - Gordon Hayward *1996 – Mike Ferguson, University of Dundee *1998 – Weiping Lu, Heriot Watt University (67th award) *1999 – Anne Neville â€
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Leeds
*2001 – Dario Alessi *2003 – James Wright *2005 – Colin McInnes *2007 –
Andrew Baker Sir Andrew William Baker (born 21 December 1965), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Andrew Baker, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He is currently Judge in Charge of the Admiralty Court. Biography He was educated at Lenzie Academy ...
*2009 ;Makdougall Brisbane Medal *2012 – Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews and Rob Jenkins, University of York *2013 - Aidan Robson, University of Glasgow *2014 - Per Ola Kristensson and Catherine Cazin, University of St Andrews *2015 - Stefan Hild, University of Glasgow *2016 - Malcolm Macdonald, University of Strathclyde *2017 - Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh *2018 - Kimberley Kavanagh, University of Strathclyde *2019 - Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow


See also

* List of general science and technology awards


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Makdougall Brisbane Prize winners Lists of award winners Royal Society of Edinburgh Edinburgh-related lists