View recipients of the Hector Medal.
The 2016 Hector Medal was awarded to Associate Professor Stéphane Coen for outstanding contributions in understanding, generation, and manipulation of temporal cavity solitons, and in identifying their role in microresonator Kerr frequency combs.
2015 |
Ian Brown FRSNZ – for his innovative transformation of fundamental materials science into major technology platforms of strategic and commercial significance in New Zealand. |
2014 |
Marston Conder FRSNZ – for his outstanding contribution to mathematics. |
2013 |
Richard Blaikie FRSNZ – for his fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to the field of nano-optics, showing that light can be manipulated at scales much smaller than its wavelength and providing a world-first demonstration of a controversial superlens system using subwavelength techniques. |
2012 |
Margaret Brimble CNZM FRSNZ – for excellence in chemical sciences. |
2011 |
Rod Downey – for his influential and innovative work in mathematical logic. |
2010 |
Grant Williams – for his internationally recognised work on the chemical and electronic structure of materials, especially high temperature superconductors. His work has led to a better understanding of the fundamental physics and the development of materials for magnetic sensors, radiation detection and imaging, and optical communication. |
2009 |
Peter Steel – for his world renowned work in the field of metallosupramolecular chemistry leading to potential applications in medicine and nanotechnology. |
2008 |
Gaven John Martin – for deep and wide-ranging contributions to the theory of Kleinian groups, geometric function theory, and other fundamental parts of modern mathematics |
2007 |
Timothy George Haskell |
2006 |
Richard Furneaux – for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of carbohydrate chemistry and to world-wide recogniton of chemistry and pharmacology in New Zealand |
2005 |
Ian Hugh Witten – for major contributions to mnay areas of computer science |
2003 |
Kenneth John Dallas MacKenzie – for his contribution as a world leader in the physics and chemistry of ceramics, minerals and inorganics |
2001 |
Peter Adolf Schwerdtfeger – for his outstanding reserch in theoretical chemistry |
2000 |
No award |
1999 |
George Arthur Frederick Seber – for fundamental contributons to statistical theory, for the development of the statistics profession in New Zealand and for the advancement of statistics education through his teaching and writing |
1998 |
Paul Terence Callaghan-for devloping several ingenious and innovative applications of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in many areas of physical and biologialc sciences. |
1997 |
Edward Neill Baker – for sustained scientific innovation and leadership in the field of protein crystallography |
1996 |
John Charles Butcher |
1995 |
Robert Dudley Jolly |
1994 |
Geoffrey Ernest Stedman |
1993 |
Richard Irving Walcott |
1992 |
Roger Curtis Green |
1991 |
Warren Richard Roper |
1990 |
Peter Wardle |
1989 |
Patricia Rose Bergquist |
1988 |
Daniel Frank Walls |
1987 |
Albert James Ellis |
1986 |
Robin Wayne Carrell |
1985 |
Peter Bernard David de la Mare |
1984 |
Roderick Leon Bieleski |
1983 |
Raymond Robert Forster |
1982 |
Roy Patrick Kerr |
1981 |
Trevor Hatherton |
1980 |
Graham Collingwood Liggins |
1979 |
Leon Francis Phillips |
1978 |
Richard Ellis Ford Matthews |
1977 |
Campbell Stuart Wemyss Reid |
1976 |
John Newton Dodd |
1975 |
Robert Cecil Hayes |
1974 |
Herbert Dudley Purves |
1973 |
Michael Philip Hartshorn |
1972 |
Edward George Bollard |
1971 |
Ira James Cunningham |
1970 |
Brian Garner Wybourne |
1969 |
Douglas Saxon Coombs |
1968 |
Gilbert Edward Archey |
1967 |
Richard Conrad Cambie |
1966 |
John Thorpe Holloway |
1965 |
Richard Kenneth Dell |
1964 |
Derek Frank Lawden |
1963 |
Charles Alexander Fleming |
1962 |
Ralph O’Reilly Piddington |
1961 |
Harry Bloom |
1960 |
Edward Edinborough Chamberlain |
1959 |
Howard Barraclough Fell |
1958 |
Alister George McLellan |
1957 |
Harold William Wellman |
1956 |
Roger Shepherd Duff |
1955 |
Francis Brian Shorland |
1954 |
Lucy May Cranwell Smith |
1953 |
Lancelot Eric Richdale |
1952 |
Keith Edward Bullen |
1951 |
Francis John Turner |
1950 |
Ernest Beaglehole |
1949 |
Robert Anthony Robinson |
1948 |
Gordon Herriot Cunningham |
1947 |
Arthur William Baden Powell |
1946 |
Henry George Forder |
1945 |
John Henderson |
1944 |
Johannes Carl Andersen |
1943 |
Lindsay Heathcote Briggs |
1942 |
Harry Howard Allan |
1941 |
Harold John Finlay |
1940 |
Donald Bannerman Macleod |
1939 |
John Arthur Bartrum |
1938 |
Herbert William Williams |
1937 |
John Reader Hosking |
1936 |
Walter Reginald Brook Oliver |
1935 |
William Blaxland Benham |
1934 |
Charles Ernest Weatherburn |
1933 |
John Marwick |
1932 |
Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck) |
1931 |
William Percival Evans |
1930 |
John Ernest Holloway |
1929 |
George Malcolm Thomson |
1928 |
Duncan M’Laren Young Sommerville |
1927 |
Charles Andrew Cotton |
1926 |
Henry Devenish Skinner |
1925 |
Bernard Cracroft Aston |
1924 |
Donald Petrie |
1923 |
George Vernon Hudson |
1922 |
Clinton Coleridge Farr |
1921 |
Robert Speight |
1920 |
Stephenson Percy Smith |
1919 |
Philip Wilfred Robertson |
1918 |
Thomas Frederic Cheeseman |
1917 |
Charles Chilton |
1916 |
Ernest Rutherford |
1915 |
Patrick Marshall |
1914 |
Elsdon Best |
1913 |
Thomas Hill Easterfield |
1912 |
Leonard Cockayne |