Melchett Medal

Melchett Medal Recipients from http://www.energyinst.org.uk/index.cfm?PageID=889

1931 W A Bone
1932 Charles M Schwab
1933 Sir John Cadman
1934 Friedrich Bergius                An inventor's difficulties in building up a large-scale industry
1935 Harry R Ricardo                 The progress of the internal-combustion engine and its fuel
1936 Franz Fischer                      The conversion of coal into liquid motor fuels and other products by way of carbon monoxide
1937 Morris W Travers               The study of gases
1938 R V Wheeler                      Destructive distillation
1939 H A Humphrey                   The supply of explosives during the war, and the early history of Billingham
1940 Etienne Audibert
1941 Clarence A Seyler               Recent progress in the petrology of coal
1942 Arno C Fieldner                  The analysis and testing of coal in relation to its properties and utilisation
1943 E S Grumell                        Conservation of resources
1944 J G King                             The pattern of fuel research
1945 C H Lander                        Team work in research
1946 Sir James Chadwick         Atomic energy and its applications
1947 Kenneth Gordon                  Hydogenation in the fuel and chemical industries
1948 (No award)
1949 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle      R J Sarjant Ignipotence
1951 Prof F H Garne                   Combustion processes in engines
1952 Prof D T A Townend          Highways and byways in combustion science
1953 Dr H Hartley                      The domestic appliance industry and fuel usage in Great Britain
1954 Dr H H Storch                    Problems in the chemistry and chemical utilisation of coal
1955 Dr A Parker                       Power, population and prosperity
1956 Sir Alfred Egerton               Methane and its combustion
1957 Sir Christopher Hinton         Nuclear power developments: some experiences of the first 10 years
1958 (No award)
1959 P O Rosin                           A common problem of research and engineering in fuel technology
1960 H C Hottell                         Radiative transfer in combustion systems.
1961 Sir Harold Hartley (award to MacFarlane) MacFarlane Memorial Lecture
1962 H E Crossley                      A contribution to the development of power stations
1963 HRH Prince Philip              Progress by design or accident
1964 Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabba   (no lecture given)
1965 F J Dent                             Experiences in gasification research
1966 Prof Sir Owen Saunders      Motivation of research
1967 Sir Charles Cawley              Some aspects of formulating a fuel policy
1968 A Ignatieff                          Fuels in a developing country
1969 William T Reid                    The energy explosion
1970 Prof T E Allibone                The future of power generation in Great Britain
1971/2 Lord Rothschild                Too old?
1972/3 F T Bacon                        Fuel cells and the growing energy problem
1974 Prof Sir Frederick Warner    Individual responsibility in health and safety
1975 Sir John Hill                         Nuclear power: the achievements, the problems - and myths
1976 Dr T G Callcott                    Coal to burn
1977 Dr J H Chesters                   Fuels rush in
1978 Dr G Brunner                      The future of the European Community
1979 Dr A W Pearce                   Oil - hydrocarbons or BTUs
1980 Sir William Hawthorne         The use of coal
1981 J H Dunster                         The assessment of the risks of energy - an iconoclastic view
1982 Dr J A Gray                         Gas technology: past and future
1985 Prof J M Beer                      Clean combustion of coal, research and applications. An overview of new technology developments in the USA.
1986 Prof N Franklin                    Swords and ploughshares - nuclear fuel
1987 Sir George Porter                 Solar energy - past and future
1988 Dr Frank Fitzgerald Energy,  High technology and economics in modern steelmaking
1989 Mr Neville Chamberlain        Nuclear fuel: the thinking man's alternative
1990 Dr David Lindley                  Windpower - a solution to the greenhouse effect
1991 Mr R N Hodge                     Energy: the industrial customer's experience and expectations
1992 Dr H L Beckers                   Energy future; wishful thinking and reality
1993 Mr Robert Evans                  Evolution of natural gas technology - the route to competitive strength
1994 S William Gouse, Jnr             Energy, where have we been and where are we going?
1995 Prof John Chesshire              Sustainability and Globalisation; Mirage or Reality?
1996 Sir Crispin Tickell                  Climate Change
1997 I Boustead                            Environmental Decisions
1998 Dr Brenda Boardman            Energy, Efficiency and Equity
1999 Prof Ian Fells                        Energy in the next Millennium: On the brink?
2000 Walter Patterson                   Energy 21: Making the World Work
2001 Lord Browne of Madingley    Environmental Policy
2002 Dr Mary Archer                    Renewable Technology Innovations
2003 Sir John Parker                      Supplying Britain's gas and electricity - will lessons from the past help the industry face new changes?

Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett , PC , LLD , DSc , FRS (23 October 1868-27 December 1930) was a British industrialist , financier and politician . In his later life he became an active Zionist .

Early life and education

Alfred Mond was born in Farnworth, Widnes , Lancashire , England , the younger son of Ludwig Mond , a chemist and industrialist of Jewish extraction who had emigrated from Germany , and his wife Frieda née Löwenthal. He was educated at Cheltenham College and St. John's College, Cambridge ,[1] but failed his natural sciences tripos . He then studied law at Edinburgh University and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1894.

Business career

Following this he joined his father's business, Brunner Mond & Company as director, later becoming its managing director . He was also managing director of his father's other company the Mond Nickel Company . Other directorships included those of the International Nickel Corporation of Canada , the Westminster Bank and the Industrial Finance Investment Corporation. His major business achievement was in 1926 working to create the merger of four separate companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) one of the world's largest industrial corporations at the time. He became its first chairman.

Politics

Mond was also involved in politics and sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester from 1906 to 1910, for Swansea from 1910 to 1918 and for Swansea West from 1918 to 1923. He served in the coalition government of David Lloyd George as First Commissioner of Works from 1916 to 1921 and as Minister of Health (with a seat in the cabinet) from 1921 to 1922. He later switched party and represented Carmarthen from 1924 to 1928, initially as a Liberal. However, in 1926 Mond became a Conservative , after falling out with Lloyd George over the former Prime Minister's controversial plans to nationalise agricultural land.
Mond was created a baronet, of Hartford Hill in Great Budworth in the County of Chester , in 1910, and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1913. In 1928 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Melchett of Landford in the County of Southampton .

Benefactions, Zionism and honours

His father had bequeathed a collection of old master paintings to the National Gallery and Alfred provided housing for them in 1924. In 1929 he provided land in Chelsea for the Chelsea Health Society.
He first visited Palestine in 1921 with Chaim Weizmann and subsequently became an enthusiastic Zionist, contributing money to the Jewish Colonization Corporation for Palestine and writing for Zionist publications. He became President of the British Zionist Foundation and made financial contributions to Zionist causes. He was the first President of the Technion in 1925. Melchett founded the town of Tel Mond , now in Israel .
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1928 and received a number of honorary degrees from Oxford , Paris, and other universities.

Personal life

In 1894 Mond married Violet Goetze and they had one son, Henry Ludwig , and three daughters. Mond died in his London home in 1930, and his son succeeded to the barony.

Publications

· Industry and Politics (1927)

· Imperial Economic Unity (1930)

Literary References

Mond is mentioned in T.S. Eliot's 1920 poem A Cooking Egg .

Violet Florence Mabel Mond, Baroness Melchett DBE (died 25 September 1945), née Violet Florence Mabel Goetze, was an British humanitarian and political activist.
Violet Mond came from a Jewish family and was the sister of the painter and sculptor Sigismund Goetze . In 1894 she married the businessman and politician Alfred Mond , who had been introduced to her by her brother. He was created a baronet in 1910 (after which she was styled Lady Mond) and Baron Melchett in 1928.
She was an active political hostess and worker, first for the Liberal Party and then, after her husband changed allegiance in 1928, for the Conservative Party . She worked hard to promote her husband's political career and used her influence with David Lloyd George to secure Mond's appointment to ministerial office in December 1916. As First Commissioner of Public Works , Mond proposed the idea of a national war museum in February 1917. Lady Mond wished to play an active part in the success of this venture.
As a member of the Women's Work Sub-Committee, Lady Mond was asked to undertake the gathering of information on home hospitals. She appears to have been very diligent with regard to this responsibility, and drew up a questionnaire to be circulated.
In the autumn of 1914, Sir Alfred Mond had enthusiastically supported a scheme proposed by Herbert J. Paterson for a hospital for officers. Paterson had already been turned down by the medical authorities of the War Office , as they did not believe in his theory that serious wounds could be cured without the trauma of amputation , given the right environmental conditions and care.
Reportedly, Mond took only two minutes to give the idea his assent and financial backing, and the Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Officers at Highgate was established. The hospital received nine hundred of the worst cases, and "its reputation and record were both noble and happy. Original surgical treatments were evolved and many officers owe the full use of their limbs to ... the care in convalescence at Melchet Court".
Violet Mond had turned her country home, Melchet Court , Hampshire , into a sixty-bed convalescent hospital , and opened her London home to Belgian refugees. For these services she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 Birthday Honours.
She was also heavily involved in infant welfare, chairing the Violet Melchett Centre, a combined infant welfare centre, day nursery and mothers' home in Chelsea , which her husband had financed.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Mond,_Baroness_Melchett