James Watt International Gold Medal

The James Watt International Gold Medal is awarded by the British to an outstanding mechanical engineer.

To commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of James Watt on 19 January 1736 - an event which was destined to bring about a revolution in the utilisation of power - the Institution of Mechanical Engineers award every two years a Gold Medal to an engineer of any nationality who is deemed worthy of the highest award the Institution can bestow and that a mechanical engineer can receive.

[1] Recipients of the James Watt International Gold Medal are:[2] The James Watt Medal is also a lesser known award of the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for energy engineers.

The medal, named after James Watt, the Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor who died in 1819, was introduced by Robert Stephenson (President of ICE in 1855-1856) who recommended Council to acquire the dies of the medal from Joseph S Wyon in 1858.

Recipients of the James Watt Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers include:

The James Watt International Gold Medal of the IMechE
The James Watt Medal of the ICE