Kernot Memorial Medal

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English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Award created 2019-05-28 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-04-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006398b.htm culturalArtefact Kernot Memorial Medal Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne AACR2 1926 Start Place Victoria, Australia The Kernot Memorial Medal has been awarded annually since 1926, and is awarded for "Distinguished Engineering Achievement in Australia", by the faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne. The award was established to perpetuate the memory of Professor William Charles Kernot, the first professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, 1883-1909. The bronze medal is awarded upon the recommendation of a selection committee that consists of the heads of departments within the faculty, and two members of the faculty, appointed by the faculty, who do not hold teaching or research appointments in the University. It is open to persons resident in Australia, for at least five out of the last seven years before the award.

In July, 1909, a committee of representative gentlemen, interested in the work of Professor William Charles Kernot, decided to establish some permanent memorial, recognising the work he had done in Australia.

An advisory sub-committee of about eight of the Presidents and Secretaries of the professional group of institutions, that were associated with his work, met and decided that a Kernot Memorial Medal be established on lines similar to those of the Telford Medal, awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers in Great Britain.

In 1925, the money collected was placed in the trust of the University of Melbourne Council with the request that the interest be used to establish a medal to be awarded for high engineering achievement by an Australian engineer, with the award is to be made annually on the report of three assessors appointed by the Council of the University on the recommendation of the Faculty of Engineering. In June 1931, the first awards were made for the years 1926 to 1930.

The medal is awarded for "Distinguished Engineering Achievement in Australia", and any person is eligible for the medal who has been resident in Australia for a period of not less than five years out of the seven years immediately preceding that in which the award is made.

Burnell, John Gurner (1885 - 1967)

Awarded the Medal 1946 "... for his work in the design and testing of pumps and welded pressure vessels."

Williams, George Kenneth (1896 - 1974)

Awarded the Medal 1931 "... for modifying the processes of production at Port Pirie"

Bradfield, John Job Crew (1867 - 1943)

Awarded the Medal 1933 "... for work done in connection with the Sydney Harbour Bridge"

Harper, Herbert Reah (1871 - 1956)

Awarded the Medal 1934 "... for carrying out the first serious experiments in the utilisation of Morwell brown coal, obtaining information of the highest value in the initiation of the State Electricity Commissioners' supply scheme, which has been developed under his direction, and is a noteworthy example of achievement in electrical engineering."

Ritchie, Edgar Gowar (1871 - 1956)

Awarded the Medal 1935 "... for the major additions made to the Melbourne metropolitan water supply system carried out under his direction."

Kernot, Maurice Edwin (1852 - 1934)

Awarded the Medal 1928 "... for having directed the reconnaissance, survey and construction of 1,100 miles of railways in Victoria."

Knight, Allan Walton (1910 - 1998)

Awarded the Medal 1963

Michell, Anthony George Maldon (George) (1870 - 1959)

Awarded the Medal 1938 "... for the invention of the Thrust Bearing"

Clements, Francis William (1864 - 1939)

Awarded the Medal 1926 "... for his work in establishing and extending the Metropolitan electricity supply in Melbourne."

Lewis, Essington (1881 - 1961)

Awarded the Medal 1943 "... as Managing Director B.H.P., Director General of Munitions and Aircarft Production"

Dumas, Russell John (1887 - 1975)

Awarded the Medal 1952 "... formerly Director of Works and Chairman of the State Electricty Commission in Western Australia."

Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne (1860 - )

Administers the Kernot Memorial Medal 1925-

Kernot, William Charles (1845 - 1909)

William Charles Kernot is commemorated by the Kernot Memorial Medal, awarded annually for "Distinguished Engineering in Australia".

Broadhead, Charles Frederick (1882 - 1962)

Awarded the Medal 1939 "... for the complete gasification of coal, and the proven application in large plants erected at South Melbourne."

Bassett, Walter Eric (1892 - 1978)

Awarded the Medal 1948

Julius, George Alfred (1873 - 1946)

Awarded the Medal 1939 "... for timber testing, as Chairman C.S.I.R. and S.A.A. and the invention of the Totalisator"

Hunt, Kenneth Henderson (1920 - 2002)

Awarded the Medal 1979

Loder, Louis Francis (1896 - 1972)

Awarded the Medal 1955

Loton, Brian Thorley (1929 - 2022)

Awarded the Medal 1988

Reeson, Joseph Newell (1868 - 1953)

Awarded the Medal 1929 "... for the introduction of electric arc welding into large engineering constructions."

Shaw, Eric Delbridge (1889 - 1970)

Awarded the Medal 1953 "... engineer in charge Eildon project of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission"

Wheadon, Frederick William Herbert (1872 - 1947)

Awarded the Medal 1936 "... as Managing Director, Electricity Supply Co., Adelaide"

Lewis, Ronald Bannatyne (1898 - 1985)

Awarded the Medal 1962

Monash, John (1865 - 1931)

Awarded the Medal 1930 "... for his work in connection with the exploitation of Victoria's brown coal deposits, and the bringing to fruition the State Electricity Commission's schemes."

Siemon, Stanley Robert (1916 - 2009)

Awarded the Medal 1986

Chapman, Robert William (1866 - 1942)

Awarded the Medal 1927 "... for teaching and research work at the Adelaide University."

Steele, Clive Selwyn (1892 - 1955)

Awarded the Medal 1944

McVey, Daniel (1892 - 1972)

Awarded the Medal 1945

Fisher, George Read (1903 - 2007)

Awarded the Medal 1969

Potter, Owen Edward (1925 - 2020)

Awarded the Medal 1993

Callinan, Bernard James (1913 - 1995)

Awarded the Medal 1982

Hudson, William (1896 - 1978)

Awarded the Medal 1958

Hacke, Arthur Kurt Englebert Fridolin (1881 - 1962)

Awarded the Medal 1950

Batterham, Robin John (1941 - )

Awarded the Medal 1996

Hey, Harry (1892 - 1960)

Awarded the Medal 1955 "... for the development of the Rum Jungle uranium project."

Worner, Hill Wesley (1917 - 2002)

Awarded the Medal 1981

Espie, Frank Fletcher (1917 - 2004)

Awarded the Medal 1978

Keast, Asdruebal James (1892 - 1980)

Awarded the Medal 1961

Darwin, Donald Victor (1896 - 1972)

Awarded the Medal 1960

Fink, Peter Thomas (Tom) (1922 - 1994)

Awarded the Medal 1987

Langlands, Ian (1906 - 1994)

Awarded the Medal 1971

Brown, Robert Hallowes (1930 - )

Awarded the Medal 1995

Francis, Arthur James (1914 - 2008)

Awarded the Medal 1983

Imberger, Jörg (1942 - )

Awarded the Medal 1997

Boland, Patrick

Awarded the Medal 1999

Connolly, Willis Henry (1901 - 1981)

Awarded the Medal 1957

Wragge, Harry Stewart (c. 1929 - 2023)

Awarded the Medal 1990

Kemp, John Robert (1883 - 1955)

Awarded the Medal 1932 [Announced in 1935] "... who has been responsible during the last fourteen years for the construction of nearly 3000 miles of roads, including nine miles of bridges."

Kernot, Charles Home (1885 - 1958)

Awarded the Medal 1951

Pratt, Henry Reginald Clive (Clive) (1911 - 2007)

Awarded the Medal 1991

Matheson, James Adam Louis (Louis) (1912 - 2002)

Awarded the Medal 1967

Upton, Thomas Haynes (1889 - 1956)

Awarded the Medal 1947

Coombes, Lawrence Percival (1899 - 1988)

Awarded the Medal 1968

Wackett, Lawrence James (1896 - 1982)

Awarded the Medal 1959

Nimmo, William Hogarth Robertson (1885 - 1970)

Awarded the Medal 1956

Trollope, David Hugh (Hugh) (1925 - 2011)

Awarded the Medal 1984

Parbo, Arvi Hillar (1926 - 2019)

Awaded the Medal 1989

Worner, Howard Knox (1913 - 2006)

Awarded the Medal 1973

Blackwood, Robert Rutherford (1906 - 1982)

Awarded the Medal 1972

East, Lewis Ronald (1899 - 1994)

Awarded the Medal 1949

Baxter, John Philip (1905 - 1989)

Awarded the Medal 1966

Mawby, Maurice Alan Edgar (1904 - 1977)

Awarded the Medal 1965 "... in recognition of his distinguished engineering achievement in exploration, research and development in the mining and metallurgical industry in and beyond the continent of Australia, and his concern for preservation of the environment."

McLennan, Ian Munro (1909 - 1998)

Awarded the Medal 1970

Clark, Gordon Colvin Lindesay (Lindesay) (1896 - 1986)

Awarded the Medal 1964

Holland, John Clifton Vaughan (1914 - 2009)

Awarded the Medal 1976

Myers, David Milton (1911 - 1999)

Awarded the Medal 1974

Connell, John William (1913 - 2016)

Awarded the Medal 1980

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