The 1851 Research Fellowship is a UK scheme conducted by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is an institution founded in 1850 to administer the international exhibition of 1851, officially called the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, held in The Crystal Palace in London, England...

 to annually award a three-year research scholarship

Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.-Types:...

 to approximately eight "young scientists or engineers of exceptional promise". Candidates are required to be citizens of Britain

United Kingdom

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, the Republic of Ireland

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, Pakistan

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 or a Commonwealth of Nations

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 country.

Several other Fellowships are also awarded including the Research Fellowship in the Built Environment, Industrial Fellowships and the Research Fellowship in Design.

Alumni

The research fellowship, known as the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, has been awarded to numerous scientists and engineers over the years, many of whom have become leaders in their fields.

Award recipients include:

• Roger Cashmore
  Roger Cashmore
  Roger John Cashmore CMG is the Chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford....
  
  , English physicist
• James Chadwick
  James Chadwick
  Sir James Chadwick CH FRS was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron....
  
  , English physicist
• Brian Grieve
  Brian Grieve
  Professor Brian John Grieve was an Australian botanist best known for his multi-volume book series How to know Western Australian wildflowers....
  
  , Australian botanist
• Charles Goodeve, Canadian chemist
• Mark Oliphant
  Mark Oliphant
  Sir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant, AC, KBE, FRS was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of the atomic bomb.During his retirement, Oliphant was appointed as the Governor of...
  
  , Australian physicist
• J. R. Partington
  J. R. Partington
  James Riddick Partington MBE was a British chemist and historian of chemistry.- Life and work :Partington was born in Bolton, Lancashire and was educated at the University of Manchester, where he obtained First Class Honours...
  
  ,British chemist
• William Penney, Baron Penney
  William Penney, Baron Penney
  William George Penney, Baron Penney OM, KBE PhD, DSc, , FRS, FRSE, FIC, Hon FCGI was a British mathematician who was responsible for the development of British nuclear technology, following World War II...
  
  , English physicist
• Ernest Rutherford
  Ernest Rutherford
  Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...
  
  , New Zealand physicist
• Edwin Sherbon Hills
  Edwin Sherbon Hills
  Edwin Sherbon Hills CBE was an Australian geologist, a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and at the time of his death was regarded as one of Australia's "most eminent scientists and most accomplished geologists".Hills grew in the Melbourne suburb Carlton...
  
  , Australian geologist