The Melchett Award is an honour awarded by the

Energy Institute The Energy Institute (EI) is a professional organization for engineers and other professionals in energy-related fields. The EI was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Institute of Petroleum (dating back to 1913) and the Institute of Energy (d ...

for outstanding contributions to the science of fuel and energy. It was created by and named for

Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, PC, FRS, DL (23 October 1868 – 27 December 1930), known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician. In his later life he became an active Zio ...

, the 20th century businessman and philanthropist.

Winners

Source: *1930: Kurt Rummell *1931: W. A. Bone *1932: Charles M. Schwab *1933: John Cadman *1934:

Friedrich Bergius Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (, 11 October 1884 – 30 March 1949) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contribu ...

*1935: Harry R. Ricardo *1936: Franz Fischer *1937: Morris W. Travers *1938: R.V. Wheeler *1939: H.A. Humphrey *1940: Étienne Audibert *1941: Clarence A. Seyler *1942: Arno C. Fieldner *1943: E S Grumel *1944: J.G. King *1945: C H Lander *1946: Sir

James Chadwick Sir James Chadwick, (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspi ...

*1947: Kenneth Gordon *1949: Sir

Frank Whittle Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 fo ...

*1950: R.J. Sarjan *1951: F.H. Garner *1952: D.T.A. Townend *1953: H. Hartley *1954: H.H. Storch *1955: A. Parker *1956: Sir Alfred Egerton *1957: Sir Christopher Hinton *1959: P.O. Rosin *1960: H.C. Hottel *1961: Sir Harold Hartley (award to MacFarlane): MacFarlane Memorial Lecture *1962: H.E. Crossley *1963: HRH

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 E ...

*1964:

Homi Jehangir Bhabha Homi Jehangir Bhabha, (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Colloquially known as "Father of Indian nuclear pro ...

*1965: F.J. Dent *1966: Sir Owen Saunders *1967: Sir Charles Cawley *1968: A. Ignatieff *1969: William T. Reid *1970: T E Allibone *1971: Lord Rothschild *1972: F T Bacon *1974: Sir Frederick Warner *1975: Sir John Hill, UKAEA *1976: T G Callcott *1977: J H Chesters *1978: G. Brunner *1979: A.W. Pearce *1980: Sir

William Hawthorne Sir William Rede Hawthorne CBE, FRS, FREng, FIMECHE, FRAES, (22 May 1913 – 16 September 2011) was a British professor of engineering who worked on the development of the jet engine. Bragg-Hawthorne equation is named after him. Life ...

*1981: J.H. Dunster *1982: J.A. Gray *1985: J.M. Beer *1986: N. Franklin *1987: Sir

George Porter George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Education and early life Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, in the then West ...

*1988: Frank Fitzgerald *1989: Neville Chamberlain *1990: David Lindley *1991: R.N. Hodge *1992: H.L. Beckers *1993: Robert Evans *1994: S. William Gouse, Jnr *1995: John Chesshire *1996: Sir

Crispin Tickell Sir Crispin Charles Cervantes Tickell (25 August 1930 – 25 January 2022) was a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic. Background Tickell was the son of writer Jerrard Tickell and Renée ( Haynes), a great-granddaughter of Thomas ...

*1997: I. Boustead *1998: Brenda Boardman *1999: Ian Fells *2000: Walt Patterson *2001: Lord Browne of Madingley *2002:

Mary Archer Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare ( Weeden; born 22 December 1944) is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion. She is married to Jeffrey Archer, a former chairman of the Conservative Party. Early life ...

*2003: Sir John Parker *2004: Sir Roy Gardner *2005: Vincent de Rivaz *2008: Andrew Warren *2010: James Skea *2011: Allan Jones *2013: David MacKay *2014: Lord Oxburgh *2016: David King *2017: Fatih Birol

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