Rumford Medal

The Rumford Medal (English Rumford Medal ) is awarded one of the UK's Royal Society scientific award. It was founded in 1796 by Count Rumford and every two years working (even years ) in Europe Scientist awarded for a discovery to the thermal or optical properties of matter. The award consists of a silver-gilt medal with a relief portrait of the founder and is endowed with prize money of £ 1,000.

The Rumford Medal should not be confused with the Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Award winners

1800-1848

1850-1898

1900-1948

1950-1998

Since 2000

  • 2000 Wilson Sibbett
  • 2002 David King
  • 2004 Richard Dixon
  • 2006 Jean -Pierre Hansen
  • 2008 Edward Hinds
  • 2010 Gilbert Lonzarich
  • 2012 Roy Taylor
Benjamin Thompson John Leslie (physicist) William Murdoch Humphry Davy David Brewster Macedonio Melloni James David Forbes Jean-Baptiste Biot Michael Faraday Henri Victor Regnault Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Neil Arnott Louis Pasteur John Tyndall Balfour Stewart Alfred Des Cloizeaux Marie Alfred Cornu William Huggins William de Wiveleslie Abney Pietro Tacchini Heinrich Hertz James Dewar Oliver Lodge Henri Becquerel Charles Algernon Parsons Ernest Rutherford Hugh Longbourne Callendar Hendrik Lorentz Heinrich Rubens Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Charles Fabry Pieter Zeeman Arthur Schuster Friedrich Paschen Peter Debye Fritz Haber Wander Johannes de Haas Robert W. Wood G. M. B. Dobson Harry Ricardo Frank Whittle Thomas Merton Hendrik C. van de Hulst Christopher Hinton (animator) Basil John Mason Alan Cottrell George Porter Charles Gorrie Wynne Walter Eric Spear David King (chemist)
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