IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

About Medal

The IEEE/Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award, established in 2006, is named in honor of the 19th century Scottish mathematician and physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell laid the foundations of electromagnetic wave theory, radio propagation, microwave techniques, and radio communications.

The award was renamed the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal in 2015.

Award Recipients

• Irwin M. Jacobs, 2007
• Andrew J. Viterbi, 2007
• Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, 2008
• A. Sangiovanni- Vinentelli, 2009
• Amar G. Bose, 2010
• Marcian E. Hoff, 2011
• Gerhard M. Sessler, 2012
• Richard Stephen Muller, Richard M. White, 2013
• David N. Payne, 2014
• Lynn Conway, 2015
• Geoffrey E. Hinton, 2016
• no award, 2017
• Thomas Bryn Haug, Philippe Raymond Dupuis, 2018
• David Flynn, David Jagger, 2019
• no award, 2020
• Evelyn L. Hu, 2021
• Ingo Wolff, 2022
• Mau-Chung Frank Chang, 2023
• Kam Lau, 2024