Hanson Medal
The Hanson Medal is awarded to the author or authors of the best article to appear in The Chemical Engineer magazine each year.
The medal is named after Carl Hanson, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Bradford, renowned expert on solvent extraction, and a former chair of The Chemical Engineer’s editorial advisory board.
The Hanson Medal focuses on non-technical papers with the key criteria for the medal being ‘promoting chemical engineering and promoting discussion’. Staff writers and freelances are excluded from the award.
Suitable papers are shortlisted by the editor of The Chemical Engineer and assessed by the Publication Medals Committee, who recommend a winner to the Medals and Prizes Committee for approval.
The definition of the medal and criteria it will be judged against are deliberately left imprecise to enable those assessing to select and recommend on any basis they choose.
Medal winners 2016—2025
- 2025 — D Barker
Imagining What Chemical Engineering Will Look Like in 50 Years, The Chemical Engineer - 2024 — C Honig, S Rios, E Oliveira
A Tool for Learning: Classroom Use-cases for Generative AI - 2023 — J Hackitt
Ethics Series: Did you sleep well?; The Chemical Engineer - 2021 — M Reid
All the Dominoes Fall; The Chemical Engineer - 2020 — Anonymous
A Visible Career on the Spectrum; The Chemical Engineer - 2019 — R Faure, M Flin, P Del Gallo and M Wagner
Add it up! How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification; The Chemical Engineer - 2018 — A Sartbaeva
Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?; The Chemical Engineer - 2017 — J S Bresland
BP Texas City: Lessons Learned?; The Chemical Engineer - 2016 — M J Atkins
Choice Cuts; The Chemical Engineer
Medal winners 1987—2015
- 2015 — P Gostomski
- 2014 — A McCartor
- 2013 — N N Hallale
- 2012 — H Oosterdijk and T Hoencamp
- 2011 — S F Bush and D R MacDonald
2011 — M Pitts - 2010 — C S Gronover and D Prufe
- 2009 — S M Howdle, D Lathbury, M Poliakoff and J-P Sherlock
- 2008 — P L Rogers
- 2007 — R Clift, Y Mulugetta and P Styring
- 2006 — G M Campbell, A Koutinas, R Wang, J Sadhukham and C Webb
- 2005 — D Ball
- 2004 — G Azeez and J Shave
- 2003 — K M Shakesheff, D M Grant and D F Farrar
- 2002 — A Gallardo-Soto, K Rawson and C McNeil
- 2001 — D Smith
- 1999 — N Medcalf
- 1998 — S G Turner
- 1997 — V Glancy
- 1996 — A Boon and V Thomas
- 1995 — P Cartright, G Pilkington and A Starkie
- 1994 — V C Marshall
- 1993 — H Barnes
- 1992 — R Smith and E Petela
- 1991 — E Wade
- 1990 — F Stainthorp and T Johnson
- 1989 — M Turner
- 1988 — D Clarke
- 1987 — K Porter and J Jenkins