Latest recipient
The 2012 Pickering Medal was awarded to Professor David Williams FRSNZ, School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland for his contribution to the development of biomedical and gas sensors, which have been commercialised.
Previous recipients
| 2011 | David Ryan FRSNZ – for developing technology which is at the heart of optimisation software used worldwide for solving complex logistics problems, such as airline scheduling. |
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| 2010 | Frank Griffin – for his contribution to work in developing diagnostics tests for detecting two major bacterial diseases of New Zealand deer, and a vaccine for the prevention of Yersiniosis in deer. These products and services are estimated to have saved the deer industry between $80-90 million worth of production that would otherwise have been lost to these diseases. |
| 2009 | Kenneth McNatty FRSNZ – for his contribution to the field of reproductive biology, with products having been commercialised from his work. |
| 2008 | Ross Ihaka - for his software package “R” that has revolutionised the practice of statistics with its unique open-source, extensible model, and which has put New Zealand on the map in the world of statistical computing. |
| 2007 | John McKinnon FRSNZ |
| 2006 | Murray McEwan FRSNZ |
| 2005 | John Boys FRSNZ |
| 2004 | Robert Buckley FRSNZ |
