| Research Awards / Fellowships and Scholarships / The IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award |
| Nominations / Recipients |
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| The IEEE and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, with funding from Wolfson Microelectronics plc, created a joint award in November 2006 to recognize groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields. |
| The annual IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award includes a US $20 000 (or British pound sterling equivalent) honorarium, a gold medal, and a certificate. |
| The award is named in honor of the 19th century Scottish mathematician and physicist James Clerk Maxwell who laid the foundations of electromagnetic wave theory, radio propagation, microwave techniques, and radio communications. |
| Wolfson Microelectronics plc is a leading global provider of high performance, mixed-signal semiconductors to the consumer electronics market, with headquarters in Edinburgh. |
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| Nominations |
| Recipient selection is performed by a joint IEEE/RSE Selection Committee which is administered by the IEEE Awards Board. |
| The award is open to anyone who has made groundbreaking contributions to the electronics or electrical engineering fields. |
| Nominees are not required to be members of either the IEEE or the RSE. |
| This award may be presented each year to an individual, team or multiple recipients up to two in number. |
| It is expected that the recipient of the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award will, within the first year subsequent to the receipt of the award, make a presentation in Scotland about his/her work. |
| Fellows are encouraged to propose those who will maintain the very high standard of this award for work that builds upon Maxwell's fields of interest. Nominations will be considered by a joint Selection Board. |
| Nominations will not be accepted from the IEEE Board of Directors, the RSE Council, the IEEE Awards Board, the Award Selection Committee, and employees of the IEEE and RSE. |
| Self-nominations are not permitted. |
Click here for further information and nomination forms.
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| Award Winners |
| 2008 |
| Sir Timothy Berners-Lee. Director, World Wide Web Consortium,
Science Researcher, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, USA |
| For conceiving and further developing the World Wide Web |
| 2007 |
| Dr Irwin M Jacobs and Dr Andrew J Viterbi, co-founders of Qualcomm Incorporated, were jointly awarded the first IEEE/RSE/Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award in 2007. |
| They received the award for fundamental contributions, innovation and leadership that enabled the growth of wireless communications. |
| Dr Jacobs received his award at the IEEE Annual Honors Ceremony held in Pennsylvania, USA on 16 June and will visit the RSE on 1 October 2007. |
| Dr Viterbi was presented with his medal by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at the 2007 Fellows’ Summer Soirée held at Edinburgh’s Telford College on 2 July 2007 to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Telford. |
| Last Updated
11 February, 2008
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