Laureates
Year | Image | Laureate | Relation | Category | Rationale |
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1929 | Hopkins, Frederick GowlandFrederick Gowland Hopkins |
Student, Royal School of Mines, 1881–1883 | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins" | |
1937 | Thomson, George PagetGeorge Paget Thomson |
Professor of Physics 1930–1952; Fellow of Imperial College, 1955 | Physics | "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" | |
1945 | Chain, Ernst BorisErnst Boris Chain |
Professor of Bacteriology, 1928–1948, St Mary's Hospital Medical School | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" | |
1945 | Fleming, AlexanderAlexander Fleming |
Professor of Bacteriology, 1928–1948, St Mary's Hospital Medical School | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" | |
1948 | Blackett, Patrick Blackett, BaronPatrick Blackett, Baron Blackett | Professor of Physics, 1953–65; Fellow of Imperial College, 1967 | Physics | "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation" | |
1956 | Hinshelwood, Cyril NormanCyril Norman Hinshelwood |
Senior Research Fellow Imperial College, 1964–1967 | Chemistry | "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions" | |
1963 | Huxley, AndrewAndrew Huxley |
Fellow of Imperial College, 1980 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane" | |
1967 | Porter, GeorgeGeorge Porter |
Visiting Professor, Department of Biology 1978–2002; Fellow of Imperial College, 1987 | Chemistry | "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy" | |
1969 | Barton, DerekDerek Barton |
Professor of Organic Chemistry, 1957–1978; Fellow of Imperial College, 1980; Emeritus Professor, 1978 | Chemistry | "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry" | |
1971 | Gabor, DennisDennis Gabor | Professor of Electron Physics, 1958–67; Fellow of Imperial College, 1970 | Physics | "for his invention and development of the holographic method" | |
1972 | Porter, Rodney RobertRodney Robert Porter |
Pfizer Professor of Immunology, ; St Mary's Hospital Medical School 1960–1967 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies" | |
1973 | Wilkinson, GeoffreyGeoffrey Wilkinson |
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, 1956–1996; Emeritus Professor 1988; Fellow of Imperial College, 1993 | Chemistry | "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds" | |
1979 | Salam, AbdusAbdus Salam |
Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1957–1996; Emeritus Professor, 1993; Fellow of Imperial College, 1994 | Physics | "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current" |
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