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Correspondence regarding the award of this medal. This includes includes correspondence related to the Electronics Divisional Board and its deliberations and rationale for wanting to create a new award at the start of 1975. It also includes correspondence with recipients for the awards made from 1976 to 1982. The winners (plus citations) for the J J Thomson medal over this period were; 1976 (1st). C W Earp, OBE, BA, CEng for his lifetime’s work on navigational aids. 1977 (2nd) . W J Bray, CBE, MSc(Eng), CEng for his valued contribution to telecommunications research. 1978 (3rd). D H Roberts, BSc, CEng for his outstanding contribution to electronics. 1979 (4th). Professor E A Ash, PhD, DSc, FEng for his outstanding contribution to the study and application of the interaction between electrons, phonons and photons. 1980 (5th). T H Flowers, DSc, CEng for his pioneering work on the development of voice-frequency signalling, the application of electronics to computing during war time, and his outstanding contributions to the research and application of electronics switching systems for telephony. 1981 (6th). Professor C Hilsum, PhD, BSc, CEng for his recognition of the importance of Gallium Arsenide as a material for semiconductor devices, and his contribution to the theory and diagnostics of the behaviour of this material and the development of technology which lead to the preparation of some of the highest quality GaAs Crystals for semiconductor devices. 1982 (7th). Professor W A Gambling, PhD, DSc, FEng for his work on low loss optical fibres and in particular on instrumentation techniques to characterise their performance.