The Hill Tinsley Medal is an annual award, conferred by the New Zealand Association of Scientists for "outstanding fundamental or applied research in the physical, natural or social sciences published by a scientist or scientists within 15 years of their PhD". The medal was first awarded in 1997. It is named for astronomer and cosmologist Beatrice Hill Tinsley. Prior to 2016, the medal was called the Research Medal.[1]
| 1997 | Origin of superconductivity in high temperature superconducting cuprates | |||
| 1998 | New ways to produce cheap energy through chemistry | |||
| 1999 | Ecology of above-ground and below-ground communities | |||
| 2000 | How damage to mitochondria contributes to human diseases | |||
| 2001 | University of Otago | Evolutionary ecology of parasites | ||
| 2002 | Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria and the biology of genetic elements outside chromosomes | |||
| 2003 | Massey University | Geometric integration | ||
| 2004 | University of Otago | How adult health is related to socio-economic status in childhood | ||
| 2005 | University of Otago | Proteins that regulate the activity of the sodium channel in kidneys | ||
| 2006 | University of Otago | How emotional responses influence social cognition | ||
| 2007 | How molecular self-assembly processes influence macroscopic physicochemical properties of fluid and solid materials | |||
| 2008 | Massey University | Theory of new electronic devices at the nanometre scale | ||
| 2009 | Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research | Entomological systematics, biogeography, speciation, and molecular evolution | ||
| 2010 | Victoria University of Wellington / Industrial Research Limited | Theoretical nanotechnology | ||
| 2011 | Probabilistic models of molecular evolution and population genetics | |||
| 2012 | Victoria University of Wellington | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and nanoplasmonics | ||
| 2013 | Victoria University of Wellington | Theory of computability | ||
| 2014 | University of Auckland | How to reduce suffering at the end of life | ||
| Victoria University of Wellington | Synthesis and electron microscopy characterisation of nanoparticles | |||
| 2015 | University of Auckland | Nonlinear optical phenomena in optical fibres | ||
| 2016 | University of Otago | Chemistry of metalloproteins | ||
| 2017 | University of Auckland | Development of metal-based anticancer drugs | ||
| 2018 | University of Otago | Human remains in an archaeological context | ||
| 2019 | Victoria University of Wellington | Modelling ice sheet and individual glacier behaviour | ||
| 2020 | University of Auckland | Leading a biophotonics lab and researching bacteria using quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy | ||
| 2021 | University of Auckland | Conservation, biodiversity, and ecological restoration research informed by cross-disciplinary western science and indigenous knowledge | ||
| 2022 | University of Canterbury | Community ecology, particularly the role of species interactions in driving emergent ecological and evolutionary phenomena.[2] | ||
| 2023 | Sociology, demography, Māori statistics |
Hill Tinsley Medal, New Zealand Association of Scientists