T.K Sidey Medal
The T. K. Sidey Medal was awarded at irregular intervals for outstanding scientific research concerning electromagnetic radiation.
Such research may have included interaction with matter, its impact on living organisms, its use in communications or its application in any other manner beneficial to human welfare.
Background on the medal
T. K. Sidey (1863-1933) served in Parliament from 1901 until 1928 when he was called to the Legislative Council as its leader, serving as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. The promotion of legislation for daylight saving was a special concern and he promoted the Summertime Act which was passed in 1927.
The T. K. Sidey Summer-Time Fund was established by the transfer to the New Zealand Institute of £500 collected to commemorate the passing of the Summer-Time Act 1927 through the instrumentality of Sir Thomas A. Sidey; the revenue in terms of the declaration of trust is to support the award of the T. K. Sidey Medal.
Recipients
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2016 |
Professor Rick Millane for his wide-ranging and fundamental work in x-ray diffraction imaging, diffraction theory, and optical diffusion imaging, and their application in biology and medicine |
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2013 |
Jim McQuillan – for his part of a research partnership that created a new chemical analytical technique called surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and developing infrared spectroscopy to examine wet metal oxide nanoparticles. |
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2010 |
Grant Caldwell – for his pioneering studies of the Earth’s volcanic and fault line regions using magneto-telluric techniques that survey the Earth’s structure to depths of more than 30 km. |
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2007 |
Roger John Reeves – in recognition of his superb contribution to research intrinsically associated with electromagnetic radiation. |
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2004 |
Pablo Gabriel Etchegoin |
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2001 |
Richard John Blaikie |
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1997 |
Richard Lindsay Dowden |
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1984 |
Ian James Warrington |
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1977 |
Roy Fergus Benseman |
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1973 |
Norman Jack Rumsey |
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1966 |
Walter Sidney Metcalf |
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1959 |
John Hobart Piddington |
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1955 |
Henry Arthur Whale |
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1951 |
Victor Albert Bailey |
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1947 |
David Forbes Martyn |
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1936 |
Leonard Hill |
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1933 |
Ernest Rutherford |
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1933 |
George Vernon Hudson (special award) |