Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal

The Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal
Awarded for	Outstanding research in the field of radio techniques and related fields
Country	Denmark
Presented by	The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
First awarded	1939
Last awarded	1993
Official website	http://www.atv.dk

The Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal, named after radio pioneer Valdemar Poulsen, was awarded each year for outstanding research in the field of radio techniques and related fields by the The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. The award was presented on November 23, the anniversary of Poulsen's birth. The award was discontinued in 1993.^[1]

Recipients

• 1939 Valdemar Poulsen^[2]
• 1946 Robert Watson-Watt^[2][3]
• 1947 Ernst Alexanderson^[4]
• 1948 Edward Victor Appleton^[4]
• 1953 Balthasar van der Pol^[5]
• 1956 Harald T. Friis^[6]
• 1960 Charles P. Ginsburg^[7]
• 1963 John R. Pierce^[8]
• 1969 Jay Wright Forrester^[9]
• 1973 J. B. Gunn^[10]
• 1976 Andrew Bobeck^[11]

References

1. Knudsen, Henrik (2012). VISIONER, VIDEN OG VÆRDISKABELSE – EN HISTORIE OM AKADEMIET FOR DE TEKNISKE VIDENSKABER [VISIONS, KNOWLEDGE AND VALUE CREATION - A HISTORY OF ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES] (in Danish). p. 135. ISBN 978-87-7836-063-2.
2. "Awards of the Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal". Nature (159): 496–497. April 12, 1947. doi:10.1038/159496d0. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
3. "Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt, Vice-President, 1950". Proceedings of the IRE 38 (2): 114. February 1950. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1950.229819. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
4. Brittain, J. E. (July 2004). "Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame: Ernst F. W. Alexanderson". Proceedings of the IEEE (IEEE) 92 (7): 1216 – 1219. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2004.828999. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
5. Cartwright, Mary L. (1960). "Balthazar Van Der Pol" (PDF). J. London Math. Soc. (Oxford Univ. Press) 35 (3): 367–376. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-35.3.367. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
6. Brittain, J. E. (1960). "Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame: Harald T. Friis [Scanning Our Past]". Proceedings of the IEEE (IEEE) 97 (9): 1651–1654. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2009.2025788. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
7. Marc, David (February 2000). "Ginsburg, Charles Paulson". American National Biography Online. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
8. Lee 1995, p. 558.
9. Lee 1995, p. 309.
10. "Gunn awarded Poulsen Gold Medal". Physics Today (American Institute of Physics): 63. February 1973. doi:10.1063/1.3127958. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
11. "Bobeck Given Award". Computerworld. March 14, 1977. Retrieved 12 September 2015.

• Lee, John A. N., ed. (1995). International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Routledge. ISBN 978-1884964473.