Recipients
View recipients of the Hamilton Award.
In 2017 the Hamilton Memorial Prize became the Hamilton Award, the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Science.
Latest recipient
Bella Duncan won the 2024 Hamilton Award for research which presents a novel 45-million-year record of ocean temperature from Antarctica and examines the ocean temperature thresholds for ice sheet retreat.
Previous recipients
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2023 |
Mark Calcott for pioneering evolutionary approaches to the engineering of microbes to enable efficient and sustainable production of new drug candidates. |
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2022 |
Christopher Cornwall for work on the impacts of climate change on coral reef growth globally. |
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2021 |
Kyle Clem for his research on the warming of the remote interior of Antarctica, including the South Pole – once thought to be immune to global warming. |
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2020 |
Nick Albert for his outstanding contributions to understanding the compounds responsible for different colours in plants. |
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2019 |
Lisa Anne Te Morenga for her contribution to international evidence-based nutrition policy stemming from her research examining the impact of dietary sugars on body weight. |
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2018 |
Maren Wellenreuther for her advocacy in applying genomic-based methods to the seafood sector and highly innovative approaches to aquaculture breeding. |
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2017 |
Ian Hamling for advancing understanding of New Zealand’s diverse tectonic and volcanic processes using satellite-based techniques. He led work to rapidly define the Kaikoura M7.8 earthquake, the findings of which have implications for seismic hazard models used worldwide. |
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2016 |
Miro Erkintalo for his outstanding contributions to nonlinear optics and laser physics, particularly for the unification of time- and frequency-domain models of optical frequency comb generation. |
| 2015 | Wooi Chee (Valerie) Soo for her work 'Enzymes are the molecular workhorses of life'. |
| 2014 | Joanne Davidson for investigating brain damage that might occur at the time of birth and has shown that by blocking a particular type of channel it is possible to significantly improve the outcome following oxygen deprivation before birth. |
| 2013 | Max Petrov for his outstanding research record through initiating and delivering studies which have changed the way that acute pancreatitis, a common digestive disease, is managed around the world. |
| 2012 | Simon Greenhill for his outstanding research record in the study of comparative linguistics. His work combines cutting-edge computational evolutionary methods with large-scale databases of language information. |
| 2011 | Mark Bolland for his outstanding research record in the study of the risks and benefits for bone and cardiovascular health of vitamin D and calcium supplements. |
| 2010 | David Baddeley for his highly detailed optical techniques used in biology to image objects as small as single molecules. He is recognised as a pioneer in this field. |
| 2009 | Noam Greenberg for his research relating to mathematical logic and computation theory and the development of algorithms in computation theory. |
| 2008 | Maurice Curtis for his highly innovative methods and approaches to examine neuogenesis in he human brain. |
| 2007 | Alexei Drummond for his significant contribution to computational modelling, with implications for population genetics, phylogeography and phylogenetics. |
| 2006 | Mark Vickers for his research on the foetal origins of later emergent adult diseases, with particular interest in the adult onset of obesity and hypertension. |
| 2005 | Barbara Holland |
| 2004 | Thomasin Ann Smith |
| 2003 | Charles Semple |
| 2002 | Adrian Walcroft |
| 2001 | Ralph Anthony Bungard |
| 2000 | Gregory Thomas Jones |
| 1999 | Claire Vallance Deborah Young |
| 1998 | Timothy Raymond Naish |
| 1997 | David Noel Harper Mark Rupert Sutherland |
| 1996 | Hamish Andrew McGowan |
| 1995 | Christopher E. Williams |
| 1994 | Michael A. Steel |
| 1993 | Neville W. Pankhurst |
| 1992 | Margaret A. Brimble |
| 1991 | Bernhard H. Breier |
| 1990 | Rodney Graham Downey |
| 1989 | Kathryn Lee Garden |
| 1988 | Christine Margaret Morris |
| 1987 | William Richard Fright |
| 1986 | Not Awarded |
| 1985 | William Richard Fright |
| 1984 | Jarg R. Pettinga |
| 1983 | Dianne Christine McCarthy Robert McKibbin |
| 1982 | Dennis George Anthony Nelson |
| 1981 | Richard John Haynes |
| 1980 | Richard H. Furneaux |
| 1979 | Robert Martin Lewitt |
| 1978 | John Douglas Bernard |
| 1977 | Michael John McDonnell |
| 1976 | Peter N. Johnson |
| 1975 | Kevin C. O’Meara |
| 1974 | Franklin H. Wood |
| 1969 | Charmian Jocelyn O’Connor |
| 1968 | Winston Frank Ponder |
| 1966 | Anthony Ewart Robert Francis Ross McNabb |
| 1963 | Colin James Burrows |
| 1962 | Peter Noel Webb Barry Cooper McKelvey |
| 1959 | Graeme Roy Stevens |
| 1955 | Richard Kenneth Dell |
| 1951 | Marshall Laird |
| 1947 | Elizabeth Joan Batham |
| 1943 | Charles Alexander Fleming |
| 1937 | Colin Osborne Hutton |
| 1934 |
Lester C. King |
| 1926 |
Harold J. Finlay John Marwick |
| 1923 |
J. G. Myers |