The Mullard Award is awarded annually by the Royal Society

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 to a person who has "an outstanding academic record in any field of natural science

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, engineering

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 or technology

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 and whose contribution is currently making or has the potential to make a contribution to national prosperity in Britain." It was established in 1967, and has been awarded to more people at once than any other Royal Society medal, with five individuals receiving the award in 1970. The award is a silver gilt medal, which comes with a £2,000 prize and a £1,500 grant to be used for travel and attending conferences.

List of recipients

Year	Name	Rationale	Notes
1967	George Douglas Hutton Bell George Douglas Hutton Bell George Douglas Hutton Bell FRS is an English scientist. He was awarded the first Mullard Award in 1967 "for the contribution the Proctor barley bred by him had made to agricultural production in the United Kingdom"....	"for the contribution the Proctor barley bred by him had made to agricultural production in the United Kingdom"
1968	Alastair Pilkington Alastair Pilkington Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, and his associate Kenneth Bickerstaff, both of Great Britain, developed the world's first commercially successful manufacture of high quality flat glass using their float glass process...	"for his outstanding advances in the technology of glass manufacture and, in particular, for his invention and development of the float glass process"
1969	Richard Milroy Clarkson	"for his outstanding advances in aircraft design and, in particular, for his conception of the innovations in the Trident and HS125 aircraft"
1970	Stephen William Kenneth Morgan, Stephen Esslement Woods, John Lumsden John Lumsden Sir John Lumsden KBE was an Irish physician and the founder of the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland.-Early years:John Lumsden was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. He was a medical doctor.Dr... , Bennett Gregory Perry and Leslie Jack Derham	"in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the concept and development of the Imperial Smelting zinc blast furnace process"
1971	Frank Ralph Batchelor, Frank Peter Doyle, John Herbert Charles Naylor and George Newbolt Rolinson	"in recognition of their contributions to the development of the semisynthetic penicillins"	|
1972	William Robert Boon	"in recognition of the outstanding role he had played in the discovery and development of the dipyridyl herbicides"
1973	Charles William Oatley	"in recognition of his outstanding contribution over an extended period to the design and development of the scanning electron microscope in which he had played a significant and continuing part"
1974	Frank Brian Mercer Frank Brian Mercer Frank Brian Mercer OBE FRS was an English chemist and businessman.He was born into a Blackburn family, which for generations had been involved in the textile industry and which owned and controlled companies engaged in spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing and educated at the Queen Elizabeth's...	"in recognition of his invention of the Netlon net process — an extrusion process for the manufacture of integral or knotless plastic net — which was of great ingenuity and simplicity with an extremely wide range of applications"
1975	John Bingham	"in recognition of his breeding a series of highly successful winter wheat varieties"
1976	George Herbert Hutchings	"in recognition of his distinguished contributions to chemotherapy, notably the conception and development of certain synergic drugs"
1977	Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield	"in recognition of his conception and development of the computerized transverse axial tomographic X-ray scanning system known commercially as the Emiscanner"
1978	James W. Black James W. Black Sir James Whyte Black, OM, FRS, FRSE, FRCP was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist. He spent his career both as researcher and as an academic at several universities. Black established the physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline...	"in recognition of his distinguished and major contributions to the discovery of two new and important types of drug — the beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs and the histamine H2 receptor blockers"
1979	Ernest Martin Ellis and Geoffrey Light Wilde	"for the design and development of the RB211 turbofan engine"
1980	Edward Penley Abraham	"in recognition of his outstanding role in the development of the cephalosporin group of antibiotics"
1981	Michael Elliott Michael Elliott Michael Elliott, OBE was an English theatre and television director.-Early life:He was born in London the son of a clergyman, Canon Elliott and was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford... , Norman Frank James and David Allen Pulman	"in recognition of their development of synthetic pyrethroids, the first generation of which (resmethrin and bioresmethrin) was largely used in domestic insecticides and the second generation, light-stable compounds (permethrin, cypermethrin and decamethrin) was used increasingly worldwide in agricultural pest control"
1982	Martin Francis Wood, John Michael Woodgate and Peter Edward Hanley	"in recognition of their development, manufacture and marketing of advanced superconducting magnet systems as a result of which they have established Oxford Instruments Ltd as the leading supplier of these systems throughout the world"	—
1983	John William Fozard and Ralph Spenser Hooper	"in recognition of their contribution to the design, development and marketing of the Harrier V/STOL aircraft in its many and various forms, a substantial number of which had been sold overseas"	—
1984	Clive Marles Sinclair	"in recognition of his entrepreneurial and innovative inventions of pocket calculators, personal computers and small television tubes of flat design"
1985	David Kalderon	"for his achievements in unifying and standardizing design practices in two of Britains principal turbine building companies, leading to significantly improved and cost-effective manufacturing processes for turbines and extensive worldwide sales of steam turbines of all sizes"
1986	John Bedford Stenlake	"for his design and development of Atracurium, a novel skeletal muscle relaxant for use in surgical anaesthesia, first marketed in 1982 and which had now achieved substantial sales in the UK and the USA"
1987	Michael Alan Ford	"in recognition of his design and development of a series of analytical infrared spectrometers marketed by Perkin-Elmer Ltd"	—
1988	Ralph Louis Wain Ralph Louis Wain Ralph Louis Wain CBE FRS was a British agricultural chemist.He read Chemistry at the University of Sheffield on scholarship, and with first class honours degree, and a Master of Science and PhD. He was advised by G.M...	"in recognition of his outstanding contribution to plant sciences and selective herbicides, in particular"
1989	David Richard Sweatman Hedgeland	"in recognition of his contribution to the technology of digital representation of characters and their processing and output by laser, such as is used in the LASER-COMP system marketed by Monotype International"
1990	Peter Mansfield Peter Mansfield Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, , is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging . The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI... , John Rowland Mallard & James McDonald Strahan Hutchinson	"in recognition of their contribution to the development of novel nuclear imaging methods, particularly nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)"
1991	David Jack & Roy Thomas Brittain	"in recognition of their contribution to the discovery and development of drugs acting as adrenergic, histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors, particularly salbutamol, salmeterol, labetalol and ranitidine"	—
1992	Robert Willian Ernest Shannon	"for the development and worldwide exploitation of a magnetic system for the inspection of high-pressure pipelines while still in service"
1993	Allen Hill (scientist), Monika Green and Anthony Cass	"in recognition of their contribution to the translation of bioelectrochemical research into the successful launch of molecular sensors for medical use"	—
1994	John White, Brad Amos, Richard Durbin and Michael Fordham (scientist)	"in recognition of their development of the MRC-600 series laser-scanning confocal imaging system, an ingenious and innovative means of improving the clarity and definition of microscopes"
1995	Kenneth Richardson	"in recognition of his role in the discovery and development of the life-saving antifungal drug, Diflucan"
1996	Ian McKittrick	"for their development of a new energy-saving glass"
1997	Patrick Humphrey	"in recognition of their development of Sumatriptan and Ondansetron, two effective and novel medicines resulting from research into understanding the role of serotonin in human diseases. Ondansetron was the first highly effective anti-emetic drug used to combat the very severe nausea and vomiting during cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Sumatriptan was the most effective treatment available for migraine and cluster headache"
1998	Graham Richards Graham Richards Professor William Graham Richards C.B.E., M.A., D.Phil, D.Sc, C.Chem, FRSC was born 1 October 1939 in Hoylake, Cheshire and was Head of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and the author of 300 scientific articles and 15 books...	"for his work on the development of the methods of computer-aided molecular design, their application and exploitation. Graham Richards was a pioneer of the field; originated several of the techniques now widely used and was the founder of the company in this area of science"
1999	John Rhodes	"for his major contribution to microwave component design and realisation, leading to the establishment of Filtronic plc, an emerging global company providing employment, revenue and exports on a rapidly increasing scale achieved through the continuous application of highly innovative scientific and engineering methods"
2000	Martin Sweeting	"for his major contribution to the research and development of low-cost, lightweight satellites for diverse missions. This activity led directly to the establishment of the highly successful Surrey Satellite Technonlogy Limited"
2003	Henning Sirringhaus	"for his work on plastic semi-conductors and his contributions to the national prosperity of the UK through the spin out company Plastic Logic Ltd"
2004	Jeremy Baumberg	"for his work on the properties of meso- and nano-scale physics and technology and his contributions to the national prosperity of the UK through the spin out company Mesophotonics Ltd"
2005	Ben Davis	"for his pioneering research into the structure of carbohydrates"
2007	Chris Freeman Chris Freeman (scientist) Professor Chris Freeman is a British environmental scientist at the University of Wales, Bangor.Freeman is Professor of Aquatic Biogeochemistry in the College of Natural Sciences in Bangor. Freeman's research focuses on carbon cycling, with an emphasis on peatland carbon storage and dissolved...	"for his research into the enzymic latch' mechanism, in which plants absorb pollutants (including carbon dioxide and dissolved chemicals) which then become trapped preventing the re-release of the pollution"
2009	Shankar Balasupramanian