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Castner Medal

The medal's design was conceived by Humphrey Paget by commission of SCI.^[2] At least until 1958, the award was called Castner Gold Medal.^[3]

Castner Medal Winners[edit]

To the date, 23 academics and industrialists have received the award.^[4]

• 1947 – Alexander Fleck – British industrial chemist and chair of Imperial Chemical Industries^[5]
• 1950 – Christian H. Aall – Noted for his work at Monsanto Chemical Co. and American Metals Climax.^[6][7]
• 1953 – Robert C. Swain – Research chemist, president of Perkin-Elmer, Hoover Institution and American Cyanamid.^[8]
• 1956 – Christopher Hinton – Chief engineer at Imperial Chemical Industries and head nuclear engineer of the Atomic Energy Authority.^[9]
• 1958 - Ronald Holroyd - Deputy chairman at Imperial Chemical Industries.^[3][10]
• 1960 - William J. Kroll - Inventor of the Kroll process for titanium extraction.
• 1965 - Herbert M. Stanley - Developer of chemical processes at the Central Research Department of the Distillers Company Ltd.^[11]
• 1967 - Duncan S. Davies - Scientist and engineer, noted for fibre-reactive dyes, polymers and coatings at Imperial Chemical Industries.^[12]
• 1970 - Bernhard Timm - Contributions to ammonia synthesis and heterogeneous catalysis, director of BASF.^[13]
• 1974 - S. Puschaver - Contributions to the development of dimensionally stable anodes.
• 1985 - Walther G. Grot - Co-discoverer of NafionatDuPont Corporation.
• 1990 - Patrick Meares - Expert in structure and transport properties of polymer membranes at University of Exeter.
• 1991 – Hiroto Miyake – Developer and designer of Flemion membranes at Asahi Glass Co.^[14]
• 1994 - Gerhard Kreysa - Expert in electrochemical engineering and director of DECHEMA.^[15]
• 1997 - Maomi Seko - Developer of ion exchange membranes for chlor-alkali process and president of Asahi Chemical Industry.^[16]
• 2002 - Dieter Landolt - Professor of electrochemical engineering at EPFL.^[17]
• 2004 – Geoffrey Ballard – Founder of Ballard Power Systems, developer of proton-exchange membrane fuel cell.
• 2007 – Geoffrey H. Kelsall – Professor of electrochemical engineering with interests on modelling and optimisation of electrochemical processes and kinetics at gas evolving electrodes Imperial College London.
• 2009 – Anthony A. Wragg – Professor of electrochemical engineering at University of Exeter. Contributed to the study of mass transport in electrochemical reactors. Longtime editor of the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.
• 2011 – Maria Skyllas-Kazacos – Developer of the vanadium redox battery. Professor at University of New South Wales.^[18]
• 2013 – Derek Pletcher – Professor of electrochemistry with interests in research and consultancy in electrochemical technology University of Southampton.
• 2015 – David E. Williams – Professor of electrochemistry and chemical sensors at University of Auckland.^[19]
• 2017 – Frank C. Walsh – Professor of electrochemical engineering with consultancy and research interests in corrosion and protection of metals, electrodeposition, nanostructured electrocatalysts, synthesis, flow batteries, fuel cells and super capacitors at University of Southampton.^[20]
• 2019 – Keith Scott – Professor of electrochemical engineering with activities on fuel cells, batteries, microbial and biological fuel cells and electrochemical synthesis at Newcastle University.
• 2022 – Dr. David Hodgson – TFP Hydrogen Products Ltd's Managing Director with 30 year career in applied electrochemistry including work in water electrolysers, the chlor-alkali industry, flow batteries, molten salt electrochemistry, fuel cells and water treatment..^[21]

See also[edit]

• List of engineering awards
• Electrochemical engineering
• Electrochemistry

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• SCI Castner Medal on Industrial Electrochemistry