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?

From Who’s Who in Jewish History: After
the Period of the Old Testament, Second Edition.

MELCHETT (Mond), Alfrd Moritz, Lord
1868–1930. British industrialist, politician and Zionist. Ludwig Mond settled in England from Germany in 1867, and built up the chemical firm of Brunner, Mond and Company, as well as the Mond Nickel company. His son Alfred succeeded him and by a series of mergers established the giant complex of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in 1926.

Alfred Mond entered politics as a Liberal member of Parliament in 1906. He held the offices of commissioner of works (1916–21) and minister of health (1921–2). In 1926 he resigned over policy differences and joined the Conservative Party. He had progressive and far-sighted views on management-labour relations; in 1928 he organized a successful conference of businessmen and trade union leaders. He was knighted in 1910 and in 1928 made Lord Melchett of Landford.

Mond had no religious education.

His wife was not Jewish, and his two children, Henry and Eva Violet, were brought up as Christians. However, Mond became a Zionist at the time of the BALFOUR Declaration in 1917, and from then on played a prominent part in the movement. He visited Palestine for the first time in 1921 with Dr WEIZMANN, and accepted the chairmanship of the newly formed Economic Council for Palestine. In 1928 he was elected president of the English Zionist Federation and the following year became associate-chairman of the expanded Jewish Agency Council. He built himself a villa with a beautiful garden on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, and founded the settlement of Tel Mond in the citrus-belt in the Sharon plain.

After Hitler’s rise to power, Lord Melchett’s two children converted to Judaism, and both of them shared his Zionist enthusiasm. Henry (1898–1949), the second Baron Melchett, was chairman of the Jewish Agency Council, and president of the World Maccabi Union. Eva (1895–1973), who married the second marquess of Reading, was an active Zionist. She was chairman of the British section of the World Jewish Congress and vice-chairman of the International Council of Women. In 1972 she was elected president of the Liberal and Progressive Synagogues. Henry’s son, Julian (1925–73), the third Lord Melchett, was appointed chairman of the British Steel Board.

From http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/melchett-alfrd-moritz-lord-tf/

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The Melchett Medal of the (U.K.) Energy Institute
(formerly the Institute of Energy, formerly the Institute of Fuel)

Awards
Individual excellence is recognised via a number of Energy Institute awards for outstanding contributions to various fields in the energy industries.....
Recognising individual excellence
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Melchett Medal
The award is one of the most prestigious within the gift of the Energy Institute and is made without restriction as to nationality or to membership of the Energy Institute for outstanding work, whether in research, administration, construction or other professional activity, involving the scientific preparation or use of energy, the results of which have recently been made available to the community. Nominations are endorsed the President and discussed within Council and can be proposed by any one working within the Energy Institute's committee structure. A nomination is agreed and then proposed for acceptance to the Council of the Energy Institute by the President. Traditionally an evening event is organised, usually in London, and the Melchett Medal is presented to the recipient who then gives his/her lecture to an invited audience of around 200 guests
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from http://www.energyinst.org.uk/index.cfm?PageID=853

John Pinches Medallions [maker of Melchett Medal]

John Pinches Medallists were founded in or around 1840, but were under the shadow of the Wyon family of English engravers for much of their early existence. While a number of the Wyons were engravers and chief engravers at the Royal Mint, other family members ran a medal business outside the Mint. Pinches was founded by John Pinches (1825-1905)… The second John Harvey Pinches wrote the book "Medals by John Pinches; A Catalog of Works Struck by the Company from 1840 to 1969", published in 1987.
Infrequently Pinches struck medals engraved by one or other of the Wyons, but in 1932 Pinches acquired the J.S. & A.B. Wyon firm and all its dies….
A number of nineteenth century medals or medallions by John Pinches are owned by the British National Portrait Gallery…. The name PINCHES can be seen of most of their medals rather than a mintmark.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vollmer, C. Eimer: "Sir Robert Johnson, the Mint and Medal Making in Inter-war Britain", Brit. Numi. J., lv (1985), pp. 169-91
British Medals and their Makers 1900-1950, The Medal, xvi (1990), pp. 58-68

From http://www.24carat.co.uk/johnpinchesmedallionsframe.html