This is a list of winners of the biennial Makdougall Brisbane Prize for particular distinction in the promotion of scientific research, latterly restyled as the annually awarded Makdougall Brisbane Medal for early career achievement in the physical sciences, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It is not to be confused with the similarly named award given by the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.

Makdougall Brisbane Prize Sources (to 2002): RSE and RSE 1859 – Roderick Murchison 1860–62 – William Seller 1862–64 – Sir John Denis Macdonald 1864–66 1866–68 – Alexander Crum Brown and Thomas Richard Fraser (joint) 1868–70 – Not awarded 1870–72 – George Allman 1872–74 – Joseph Lister 1874–76 – Alexander Buchan 1876–78 – Archibald Geikie 1878–80 – Charles Piazzi Smyth 1880–82 – James Geikie 1882–84 – Edward Sang 1884–86 – Sir John Murray 1886–88 – Archibald Geikie (only Fellow twice awarded the prize) 1888–90 – Ludwig Becker 1890–92 – Hugh Robert Mill 1892–94 – James Walker 1894–96 – John Gray McKendrick 1896–98 – William Peddie 1898–1900 – Ramsay Traquair 1900–02 – Arthur T. Masterman 1902–04 – John Dougall 1904–06 – Jakob Karl Ernst Halm 1906–08 – David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan 1908–10 – Ernest Wedderburn 1910–12 – John Brownlee 1912–14 – Charles Robertson Marshall 1914–16 – Robert Alexander Houstoun 1916–18 – Abercrombie Lawson 1918–20 – Joseph Wedderburn 1920–22 – William Thomas Gordon 1922–24 – Herbert Stanley Allen 1924–26 – Charles Morley Wenyon, protozoologist 1926–28 – William Ogilvy Kermack 1928–30 1930–32 – Alexander Aitken 1932–34 – Alfred Ernest Henderson Cameron 1934–36 – Ernest Masson Anderson 1936–38 – David Meredith Seares Watson 1938–40 – Edward Lindsay Ince 1940–42 – William Wright Smith 1942–44 – Max Born and Peng Huanwu 1944–46 – William Black 1946–48 - Mowbray Ritchie 1948–50 1950–52 – Edward Maitland Wright 1952–54 – William Charles Osman Hill 1954–56 – Maurice Yonge 1956–58 – Ian Sneddon 1958–60 1960–62 – Edward McWilliam Patterson 1962–64 – Arthur Holmes 1964–66 – Daniel Edwin Rutherford 1966–68 – James Norman Davidson 1968–70 – Norman Feather 1970–72 1972–74 – David Paton Cuthbertson 1974–76 – Frederick Valentine Atkinson 1976–78 1978–80 – Walter Eric Spear 1980–82 – William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett 1982–84 – John Henderson Knox 1984–86 – Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith 1988 1990 1992 – Tom Brown, University of Oxford 1994 - Gordon Hayward 1996 – Mike Ferguson, University of Dundee 1998 – Weiping Lu, Heriot Watt University (67th award) 1999 – Anne Neville – Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Leeds 2001 – Dario Alessi 2003 – James Wright 2005 – Colin McInnes 2007 – Andrew Baker 2009 Makdougall Brisbane Medal 2012 – Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews and Rob Jenkins, University of York 2013 - Aidan Robson, University of Glasgow 2014 - Per Ola Kristensson and Catherine Cazin, University of St Andrews 2015 - Stefan Hild, University of Glasgow 2016 - Malcolm Macdonald, University of Strathclyde 2017 - Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh 2018 - Kimberley Kavanagh, University of Strathclyde 2019 - Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow 2021 - Mehul Malik, Heriot-Watt University 2022 - Jonathan Fraser, University of St Andrews

See also List of general science and technology awards

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