2024 Beilby Medal and Prize Winner
Professor Robert Hoye, University of Oxford
Awarded for pioneering, interdisciplinary contributions to the discovery, understanding and manufacture of defect-tolerant semiconductors for energy conversion and healthcare applications.
Robert Hoye is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of St John's College and an STFC-RAEng Senior Research Fellow. He leads a group of four postdocs and seven PhD students, working on developing novel optoelectronic materials for energy conversion.
His group has pushed forward the development of defect-tolerant semiconductors with band-like transport. They have used a combination of materials chemistry, ultrafast spectroscopy, and computations with the aim of unravelling the chemical-physical factors that enable these properties in order to design more efficient semiconductors. They have applied these materials in thin film photovoltaics for energy harvesting to sustainably power Internet of Things electronics, X-ray detectors and photodetectors, as well as artificial-leaf devices that harvest sunlight to split water into fuels.
| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2023 | Asst Prof Charlotte Vogt | Technion Institute for Technology | |
| 2022 | Prof Sahika Inal | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology | |
| 2021 | Dr Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer | University of Birmingham | Awarded for unconventional lithographic structuring of applied materials and advanced nanoplatforms for optical spectroscopy. |
| 2020 | Professor Jin Xuan | Loughborough University | |
| 2019 |
Professor Prashant K Jain | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 2018 |
Dr Gregg Beckham |
National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Awarded for the development of hybrid biological-catalytic and recycling processes to convert biomass and waste plastics to useful chemicals and high-value materials. |
| 2017 | Professor Ken-Tye Yong | Nanyang Technological University | |
| 2016 | Professor Sarbajit Banerjee | Texas A&M University | Awarded for recognition of his early career accomplishment in novel materials design and application. |
| 2015 | Professor Benjamin Wiley | Duke University | Awarded for his pioneering contributions to the field of metal nanowires, including the demonstration of the use of copper nanowires as a low-cost transparent electrode for solar cells. |
| 2014 | Professor Javier Pérez-Ramírez | ETH Zürich | Awarded for his outstanding contribution to catalysis engineering. |
| 2013 |
Prof Xiangfeng Duan | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 2012 |
Professor Adam Lee | Cardiff University | Awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and surface science with a particular emphasis on clean catalytic technologies. |
| 2011 |
Samuel Kingman | University of Nottingham | |
| 2010 |
Dr Suwan Jayasinghe | University College London | |
| 2009 |
Zhenan Bao | Stanford University, USA | Awarded for her contributions and discoveries in the field of organic semiconductors, including the demonstration that conjugated polymers can produce high mobilities of charge carriers when self-assembled using solution deposition. |
| 2008 |
Neil McKeown | Cardiff University | Awarded for his outstanding achievements in materials chemistry; most notably, for his discovery of polymers showing intrinsic porosity. |
| 2007 | Professor I D W Samuel | University of St Andrews | Awarded for for his contributions to the development of organic semiconductors for applications in displays, lasers and medicine. |
| 2006 | Dr Markus Kraft | University of Cambridge | Awarded for his outstanding work on the development and application of mathematical and computational methods for understanding and predicting the behaviour of complex chemical systems. |
| 2005 | Professor Simon R Biggs | Professor Simon R Biggs | Awarded for his outstanding contribution to the understanding of the control and manipulation of interparticle forces to allow more efficient process engineering of particulate systems. |
| 2005 | Professor Nilay Shah | Imperial College London | Awarded for his seminal contributions to supply chain optimisation and his outstanding contributions to process planning and safety assessment. |
| 2004 | Professor Ivan P Parkin | University College London | Awarded for his seminal contributions to the synthesis of materials - in particular work on solid state metathesis and atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition. |
| 2003 |
P G Bruce | ||
| 2002 |
Not awarded | ||
| 2001 | Dr Alfred Cerezo | University of Oxford | Awarded for his pioneering work in developing the position-sensitive atom probe, the first instrument capable of reconstructing the three-dimensional atomic chemistry of solids. |
| 2000 | Dr Zheng Xiao Guo | Queen Mary and Westfield College, London | Awarded for being a clear achiever, showing the application of fundamental science to processing issues and the development of novel solutions for industry. |
| 1999 |
Dr John T S Irvine | University of St Andrews | Awarded for his work on the chemistry of fuel cell materials, and in particular, for his structural studies of metal oxides with application as catalytic electrodes in solid oxide fuel cells. |
| 1999 |
Professor Anthony J Ryan | University of Sheffield | Awarded for his work on the advancement of synchotron X-ray techniques to in situ real time studies of morphological development in polymers and its importance in polymer processing. |
| 1998 | Professor Costos C Pantelides | Awarded for his contributions to process systems engineering, in particular to the areas of process modelling and simulation and optimal design and operation of multipurpose chemical and biochemical plants. | |
| 1997 |
Professor Richard A Williams | University of Exeter | |
| 1996 |
Paul J Luckham | ||
| 1995 |
Lynn F Gladden | University of Cambridge | |
| 1994 |
Hans M Muller-Steinhagen | ||
| 1993 | Howard A Chase | University of Cambridge | |
| 1993 |
David C Sherrington | ||
| 1992 |
R C Brown | ||
| 1991 |
Geoffrey J Ashwell | ||
| 1990 |
R F Dalton | ||
| 1989 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1988 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1987 |
G E Thompson | ||
| 1986 |
Malcolm R Mackley | ||
| 1985 |
George D W Smith | University of Oxford | |
| 1984 |
A Grint | ||
| 1983 |
B J Briscoe | ||
| 1982 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1981 |
Dr Derek J Fray | University of Cambridge | |
| 1981 |
R M Nedderman | ||
| 1980 |
James B Scuffham | ||
| 1979 |
Stephen F Bush | ||
| 1978 |
John C Scully | ||
| 1977 |
James E Castle | ||
| 1976 |
Professor Ian Fells | Newcastle University | |
| 1975 |
Peter R Swann | ||
| 1974 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1973 |
Dr Julian Szekely | State University of New York at Buffalo | |
| 1973 |
G C Wood | ||
| 1972 |
F P Lees | ||
| 1971 |
J H Purnell | ||
| 1970 |
A R C Westwood | ||
| 1969 |
R E Smallman | ||
| 1968 |
J Mardon | ||
| 1967 |
A Kelly | ||
| 1966 |
J F Davidson | ||
| 1965 |
J A Charles | ||
| 1964 |
P L Pratt | ||
| 1963 |
R W K Honeycombe, R W B Nurse | ||
| 1962 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1961 |
C Edeleanu, John Nutting |
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| 1960 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1959 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1958 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1857 |
B E Hopkins, E C Potter | ||
| 1956 |
R W Kear | ||
| 1955 |
F D Richardson, F Wormwell | ||
| 1954 |
Sir James Woodham Menter | University of Cambridge | |
| 1953 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1952 |
T V Arden | ||
| 1951 |
K H Jack, W A Wood | ||
| 1950 |
W A Baker, G Whittingham | ||
| 1949 |
Dr Frank R N Nabarro | University of Bristol | |
| 1949 |
C E Ransley, K W Sykes |
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| 1948 |
A S C Lawrence | ||
| 1947 |
Dr Geoffrey V Raynor | University of Birmingham | |
| 1947 |
G R Rigby | ||
| 1946 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1945 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1944 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1943 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1942 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1941 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1940 |
F M Lea | ||
| 1939 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1938 |
F P Bowden, B Jones | ||
| 1937 |
B S Evans, W H J Vernon | ||
| 1936 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1935 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1934 |
Dr William Hume-Rothery | University of Oxford | |
| 1934 |
E A Rudge | ||
| 1933 |
C F Tipper, A J V Underwood | ||
| 1932 |
W J Rees, W R Schoeller | ||
| 1931 |
Not awarded | ||
| 1930 |
Guy Dunstan Bengough, Ulick Richardson Evans |
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