Copley Medal

The Copley Medal (English Copley Medal ) is awarded one of the UK's Royal Society prize for scientists of all disciplines. It is the oldest and most highly endowed of regularly awarded by the Royal Society Awards. The Copley Medal is awarded annually since 1731 to a scientist. The medal is named after Godfrey Copley, who was a wealthy landowner and himself a member of the Royal Society. It is silver plated and comes with a prize money of £ 5,000. Among the outstanding scientists are Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Jean Bernard Léon Foucault.

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  • 2001: Jacques Miller ( * 1931)
  • 2002: John Anthony Pople ( 1925-2004 )
  • 2003: John Gurdon (* 1933)
  • 2004: Harold Kroto ( b. 1939 )
  • 2005: Paul Nurse ( b. 1949 )
  • 2006: Stephen Hawking ( b. 1942 )
  • 2007: Robert May ( b. 1936 )
Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet Stephen Gray (scientist) Stephen Hales Abraham Trembley William Watson (scientist) Benjamin Robins James Bradley John Harrison George Edwards (naturalist) John Canton John Pringle Benjamin Franklin William Lewis (scientist) John Dollond John Smeaton Benjamin Wilson (painter) Edward Delaval Henry Cavendish John Ellis (naturalist) Peter Woulfe Joseph Priestley John Walsh (scientist) Nevil Maskelyne Charles Hutton Samuel Vince Richard Kirwan Edward Waring John Hunter (surgeon) Charles Blagden James Rennell Benjamin Thompson Jesse Ramsden George Atwood Charles Hatchett Edward Charles Howard William Hyde Wollaston Smithson Tennant Humphry Davy Thomas Andrew Knight Everard Home William Henry (chemist) Edward Troughton Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet William Thomas Brande James Ivory (mathematician) David Brewster Henry Kater Robert Seppings Edward Sabine William Buckland John Pond Peter Barlow (mathematician) William Prout Henry Foster (scientist) Michael Faraday Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana Francis Kiernan Georg Ohm James MacCullagh Jean-Baptiste Dumas Carlo Matteucci Theodor Schwann Peter Andreas Hansen Richard Owen Alexander von Humboldt Heinrich Wilhelm Dove Charles Lyell Wilhelm Eduard Weber Thomas Graham (chemist) Adam Sedgwick Karl Ernst von Baer Charles Wheatstone Henri Victor Regnault Louis Pasteur Claude Bernard Rudolf Clausius James Joseph Sylvester Arthur Cayley Franz Ernst Neumann Joseph Dalton Hooker Thomas Henry Huxley George Salmon Simon Newcomb Stanislao Cannizzaro Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Edward Frankland Karl Gegenbaur William Huggins Marcellin Berthelot Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister George William Hill Francis Galton James Dewar Hendrik Lorentz William Bayliss Horace Tabberer Brown Joseph Larmor Ernest Rutherford Horace Lamb Charles Algernon Parsons Arthur Schuster George Ellery Hale Theobald Smith John Scott Haldane Arthur Evans Niels Bohr Paul Langevin Thomas Lewis (cardiologist) Robert Robinson (organic chemist) Joseph Barcroft Oswald Avery G. H. Hardy James Chadwick David Keilin E. T. Whittaker John Edensor Littlewood Harold Jeffreys Paul Fildes Sydney Chapman (mathematician) Bernard Katz Norman Pirie Andrew Huxley Francis Crick Frederick Sanger Robert Burns Woodward Derek Barton Peter D. Mitchell Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Aaron Klug Robin Hill (biochemist) Abdus Salam Sydney Brenner George Porter Frederick Charles Frank Frank Fenner Alan Cottrell John Maynard Smith Alan R. Battersby Harry Kroto Dan McKenzie (geophysicist)
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