The Bessemer Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) "for outstanding services to the steel industry, to the inventor or designer of any significant innovation in the process employed in the manufacture of steel, or for innovation in the use of steel in the manufacturing industry or the economy generally". The recipient is expected to prepare and deliver the Bessemer Lecture.

It was established and endowed to the Iron and Steel Institute in 1874 by Sir Henry Bessemer and was first awarded to Isaac Lowthian Bell in 1874. The Iron and Steel Institute merged in 1974 into the Institute of Metals, which in 1993 became part of the Institute of Materials, which in turn became part of the IOM3 in 2002.

Prizewinners Source: IOM3 archive website and current IOM3 website

IOM3

2025 Mark D Millett 2024 William Mark Rainforth 2023 Geoffrey Brooks 2022 Robertus Boom 2021 John J Feriolla 2020 David Anthony Worsley 2019 J Bolton 2018 I Samarasekera 2017 J Speer 2016 A W Cramb 2015 John Beynon 2014 H Tomono 2013 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 2013 K Mills 2012 G Honeyman 2011 I Christmas 2010 M Sellars 2009 G Arvedi 2008 T Mukherjee 2007 L Mittal 2006 H Bhadeshia 2005 S I Pettifor 2004 R J Fruehan 2003 J P Birat 2002 R E Dolby

Institute of Materials

2001 M J Pettifor 2000 Terry Gladman 1999 Etham T Turkdogan 1998 R Baker 1997 F Kenneth Iverson 1996 Sir Brian Moffat 1995 P Wright 1994 F B Pickering 1993 H Saito

Institute of Metals

1992 C E H Morris 1991 Frank Fitzgerald 1990 J S Pennington 1989 Gerald R Heffernan 1988 Sir R Scholey 1987 Tae-Joon Park 1986 J.R.D. Tata 1985 Viscount E Davignon

Metals Society

1984 P Metz 1983 I K MacGregor 1982 Godefridus Wilhelmus van Stein Callenfels 1981 Sir I McLennan 1980 M Tenenbaum 1979 H O H Haavisto 1978 Karl Brotzmann 1977 H Morrogh 1976 J D Joy 1975 Richard Weck 1974 Sir M Finniston

Iron and Steel Institute

1973 J W Menter 1972 M Morgan 1971 A G Quarrell 1970 P Coheur 1969 Queen Elizabeth II 1968 F D Richardson 1967 E T Judge 1966 John Hugh Chesters 1965 T Sendzimir 1965 N P Allen 1964 H Malcor 1963 F H Saniter 1962 Sir Charles Goodeve 1961 W Barr 1960 Hermann Schenck 1959 B M S Kalling 1958 W F Cartwright 1957 R Durrer 1956 C Sykes 1955 John Chipman 1954 T P Colclough 1953 R Mather 1952 H H Burton 1951 B F Fairless 1950 J Mitchell 1948 W J Dawson 1947 K M Tigerchiold 1947 Sir William J Larke 1946 J S Hollings 1945 Harold Wright 1944 E Lewis 1943 J H Whiteley 1942 E G Grace 1941 T Swinden 1940 Sir Andrew McCance 1939 J Henderson 1938 C H Desch 1937 Colonel N. T. Belaiew 1937 A Mayer 1936 Fred Clements 1935 A M Portevin 1934 King George V 1933 W H Hatfield 1932 H Louis 1931 Sir Harold Carpenter 1930 W Rosenhain 1930 E Schneider 1929 Sir Charles A Parsons 1928 C M Schwab 1927 Axel Wahlberg 1926 Sir Hugh Bell 1925 T Turner 1924 A Sauveur 1923 W H Maw 1922 K Honda 1921 C Freemont 1920 H Brearley 1919 Federico Giolitti 1918 The Rt Hon Lord Invernairn of Strathnairn 1917 A Lamberton 1916 F W Harbord 1915 P Martin 1914 Edward Riley 1913 A Greiner 1912 J H Darby 1911 H L Le Chatelier 1910 E H Saniter 1909 A Pourcel 1908 B Talbot 1907 J A Brinell 1906 F Osmond 1906 King Edward VII 1905 J O Arnold 1904 A Carnegie 1904 Sir R Hadfield 1903 The Rt Hon Lord Airedale of Gledhow 1902 F A Krupp 1901 J E Stead 1900 Henri de Wendel 1899 H M Queen Victoria 1898 R Prince-Williams 1897 Sir Frederick Abel 1896 H Wedding 1895 H M Howe 1894 John Gjers 1893 J Fritz 1892 A Cooper 1891 The Rt Hon Lord Armstrong 1890 W D Allen 1890 Hon A S Hewitt 1889 J D Ellis 1889 H Schneider 1888 D Adamson 1887 James Riley 1886 Edward Williams 1885 R Akerman 1884 E P Martin 1884 E W Richards 1883 G J Snelus 1883 Sidney Gilchrist Thomas 1882 A L Holley 1881 W Menelaus 1880 Sir J Whitworth 1879 P Cooper 1878 P R von Tunner 1877 J Percy 1876 R F Mushet 1875 Sir C W Siemens 1874 Sir Lowthian Bell

See also List of engineering awards

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