Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award

From Engineering Heritage Australia

A list of engineers who have been awarded the PNR Medal are:

Year Awarded Recipient State
2024 Dr Marlene Kanga AO
2023 Dianne Boddy VIC
2022 Peter Cockbain AM
2021 Em/Prof Elizabeth Taylor
2020 Prof Harry Poulos
2019 Prof Brian Anderson
2018 Dr Alan Finkel
2017 Prof Mary O'Kane
2016 Mr Richard Albert Kell
2015 Hon Sir Eric Neal
2014 Dr Maxwell Gordon Lay
2013 Mr Barry Grear
2012 Mr John Michael Grill
2011 Prof Andrew Richard Downing
2010 Mr Allan William Roberts
2009 Prof Michael Bruce Dureau
2008 Mr Martin Hallowell Thomas
2007 Mrs Else Egede Shepherd
2006 Dr Peter Farrell
2005 Prof Graeme Jameson
2004 Mr John Laurie
2003 Dr Arthur Bishop
2002 Dr Kenneth Michael WA
2001 Mr Wallace Macarthur King
2000 Dr Tom Connor
1999 Mr Donald George Fry
1998 Dr John Nutt
1997 Dr Peter Owen Miller
1996 Mr Andrew Bruce Sinclair
1995 Prof Jorg Imberger WA
1994 Dr Robert Culver
1993 Mr William Harold Clough WA
1992 Dr Michael Anthony Sargent
1991 Prof Rolf G.H. Prince
1990 Mr Donald James Little
1989 Dr Charles Harold Warman WA
1988 Em Prof Peter Thomas Fink
1987 Prof John Douglas Correll Crisp
1986 Em Prof Lance Aubrey Endersbee
1985 Sir Alfred William Tyree
1984 Mr Douglas Gordon Price
1983 Prof Kenneth Henderson Hunt
1982 Mr Donald Hector Aitken WA
1981 Dr William Piper Brown
1980 Mr Roger Neill Morse
1979 Dr Don Watkyn Woods
1978 Sir Charles Newton Barton
1977 Dr David Milton Myers
1976 Sir Louis Matheson
1975 Prof Jack William Roderick
Year Awarded Recipient State
1974 Sir John Clifton Vaughan Holland
1973 Dr Ian Landlands
1972 Mr Bernard James Callinan
1971 Mr Raymond Arthur Priddle
1970 Prof Wilbur Norman Christiansen
1969 Mr Julian Randal Dridan
1968 Sir Willis Henry Connolly
1967 Sir Ian Munro McLennan
1966 Mr Donald Victor Darwin
1965 Mr Thomas Bruce Nicol
1964 Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood
1963 Mr Allan Walton Knight
1962 Capt George Ian Hutcheson
1961 Sir James Arthur Holt
1960 Sir Albert Edwin Axon
1959 Mr William Rayner Hebblewhite
1958 Sir Walter Eric Bassett
1957 Sir Lewis Ronald East
1956 Sir John Proctor Tivey
1955 Prof Alan Burn
1954 Sir Louis Francis Loder
1953 Radm Alex Broughton Doyle
1952 Sir Russell John Dumas WA
1951 Mr John Gurner Burnell
1950 Mr William HogarthRobertson Nimmo
1949 Dr Thomas Havnes Upton
1948 Mr Robert Lawson
1947 Brig James Montagu Christian Corlette
1946 Mr Walter Harold Myers
1945 Sir William Goodman
1944 Sir John Madsen
1943 Mr Edgar Gower Ritchie
1942 Sir John Robert Kemp
1941 Mr Robert James Boyd
1940 Mr Alexander James Gibson
1939 Sir Henry Barraclough
1938 Mr Herbert Reah Harper
1937 Mr Dudley Francis John Harricks
1936 Mr Hugh Rose Forbes Mackay
1935 Mr John Henry Osborn Eaton
1934 Mr Francis William Clements
1933 Mr Maurice Edwin Kernot
1932 Dr John Job Crew Bradfield
1931 Prof Roger William Hercules Hawken, Professor of Engineering, University of Queensland QLD
1930 Mr Henry Harvey Dare, Commissioner of Water Conservation and Irrigation NSW
1929 Sir John Monash, Chairman, State Electricity Commission of Victoria VIC
1928 Sir Robert William Chapman, Professor of Engineering at the University of Adelaide SA
1927 Sir George Alfred Julius, Consulting Engineer National and WA
1926 Mr Orlando William Brain, Assistant Commissioner, N.S.W. Government Railways and Tramways NSW
1925 Mr Richard Ernest Sexton, Engineer-in-Chief, Queensland Railways QLD
1924 Mr James Fraser, Chief Commissioner, N.S.W. Govt. Railways and Tramways NSW
1923 Prof William Henry Warren, Challis Professor of Engineering, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney NSW


References:
Institution of Engineers, P. N. Russell Memorial Medal [List of recipients 1923 - 1931], Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, vol. 3, 1931, p. 445. (Note: Article says 1928 winner was Mr B A Smith. Correct winner was Sir Robert Chapman which has been confirmed via personal communication with Ken McInnes)

Engineers Australia, Excellence Awards - Past Winners, .pdf document dated 3 April 2024.

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