Tyson Medal
The Tyson Medal is a prize awarded for the best performance in subjects relating to astronomy at the University of Cambridge, England.[1] It is awarded annually for achievement in the examinations for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos when there is a candidate deserving of the prize. In his will, Henry Tyson made the following bequest:
That the sum of three hundred pounds be paid to the Cambridge University the interest annually to be for a gold medal for the best proficient in Mathematics and Astronomy in the same way as Dr Smith's and to bear the donor's name.[2]
The value of the fund was £65,095 in 2008.[3]
List of winners
Most of this list is from The Times newspaper archive.[4] The winners of the prize are published in The Cambridge University Reporter.
- 1895 Archibald Young Gipps Campbell
- 1896 E. T. Whittaker
- 1904 Philip Edward Marrack
- 1905 F. J. M. Stratton
- 1911 Albert Henry Stewart Gillson
- 1912 John Jackson
- 1913 Hermann Glauert
- 1914 William Marshall Smart
- 1919 William Michael Herbert Greaves
- 1924 Alan Fletcher
- 1927 Charles Stewart McLeod
- 1928 J. C. P. Miller
- 1930 Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar and Andrew Wood Taylor
- 1931 W. E. Candler
- 1932 J. A. Edgar
- 1933 Raymond Lyttleton
- 1934 F. L. Westwater
- 1935 Robert Martineau
- 1936 G. L. Clark
- 1937 David Stanley Evans
- 1941 C. Plumpton
- 1954 P. J. Message
- 1956 J. H. Biltcliffe
- 1960 Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
- 1964 Michael Victor Penston
- 1966 J. Skilling
- 1967 Susan H. Storer
- 1968 Derek Jeffrey Raine
- 1969 Douglas C. Heggie
- 1970 Christopher Rodney Prior
- 1971 James E. Pringle
- 1972 Stephen Theodore Chesmer Siklos and Christopher Andrew Jones
- 1973 Andrew Richard Garlick and Roman L. Znajek
- 1974 Philip William Murray Brighton
- 1976 Christopher Neville Pope
- 1978 Robert Sinclair MacKay
- 1979 Ian G. Moss
- 1980 Susan Stepney
- 1981 Julian Christopher Luttrell
- 1982 Peter P. Taylor
- 1984 Michael John Thompson
- 1985 Koenraad H. Kuijken
- 1986 Mark G. Mitchard
- 1987 Helen F. Dowker
- 1988 Nigel Peake
- 1989 Robin J. R. Williams
- 1993 Christopher Stephen Reynolds
- 1994 Gordon Ian Ogilvie
- 1997 Jan B Gutowski
- 1999 Steven R. Furlanetto
- 2000 Robert D. Jones
- 2004 Joshua T. Horwood
- 2005 Alexander L.G. Scordellis
- 2006 João G. Rosa
- 2007 Simeon Bird
- 2008 Blake D. Sherwin
- 2010 Curt von Keyserlingk
- 2011 Adam Solomon
- 2012 Raghu Mahajan
- 2013 Benjamin Wallisch
- 2014 Michael J. Cole
- 2015 Felicity Eperon
- 2016 Theodor Björkmo
- 2017 Roland Bittleston and Philip Boyle-Smith
- 2018 Niklas J. F. Henke and Atul Sharma
- 2019 Philip De Friend and James Moore
- 2022 J. J. Brown, T.-Y. Leung and P. L. Röhl[5]
References
- "Statute E, Trust Emoluments, Chapter IV, The Tyson Fund". UK: Cambridge University. 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2009.
- Endowments of the University of Cambridge. CUP Archive. 1904.
- "Section J" (PDF). The Cambridge University Reporter. UK: University of Cambridge. p. 34.
- "Mayhew Prize winners list". UK: University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011.
- "Awards, scholarships and prizes, 2020–21 and 2021–22" (PDF). The Cambridge University Reporter. UK: University of Cambridge. p. 259.
