Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Copley Medal is a scientific award for work in any field of science, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. It is also the society's oldest award, the first medal being awarded in 1731. The award was created after a £100 bequest in 1709 to the Royal Society by Sir Godfrey Copley, a wealthy landowner from Sprotbrough, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who was elected to the Society in 1691. It is one of ten medals that the Society awards (some awards are made annually, others at different intervals according to their terms of reference). The Copley Medal alternates between the physical sciences and the biological sciences, and the winners are selected by Fellows of the Society. Past laureates include: 1731 Stephen Gray 1732 Stephen Gray 1739 Stephen Hales 1744 Henry Baker 1748 James Bradley 1749 John Harrison 1753 Benjamin Franklin 1759 John Smeaton 1772 Joseph Priestley 1775 Nevil Maskelyne 1776 James Cook 1781 William Herschel 1784 Edward Waring 1787 John Hunter 1794 Alessandro Volta 1802 William Hyde Wollaston 1805 Humphry Davy 1815 David Brewster 1817 Henry Kater 1820 Hans Christian Orsted 1821 Edward Sabine 1822 William Buckland 1823 John Pond 1824 John Brinkley 1825 François Arago; Peter Barlow 1827 William Prout 1831 George Biddell Airy 1832 Michael Faraday; Simeon Poisson 1835 William Snow Harris 1836 Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1838 Carl Friedrich Gauss 1839 Robert Brown 1840 Justus Liebig 1841 Georg Ohm 1845 Theodor Schwann 1846 Urbain Le Verrier 1847 John Herschel 1848 John Couch Adams 1849 Roderick Murchison 1850 Peter Andreas Hansen 1852 Alexander von Humboldt 1855 Léon Foucault 1857 Michel-Eugene Chevreul 1858 Charles Lyell 1859 Wilhelm Weber 1860 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen 1861 Louis Agassiz 1863 Adam Sedgwick 1864 Charles Darwin 1866 Julius Plücker 1867 Karl Ernst von Baer 1868 Charles Wheatstone 1869 Henri Victor Regnault 1870 James Prescott Joule 1872 Friedrich Woehler 1873 Hermann Helmholtz 1874 Louis Pasteur 1876 Claude Bernard 1877 James Dwight Dana 1879 Rudolf Clausius 1882 Arthur Cayley 1883 William Thomson 1885 Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz 1887 Joseph Dalton Hooker 1888 Thomas Henry Huxley 1892 Rudolf Virchow 1893 George Gabriel Stokes 1899 Lord Rayleigh 1901 Willard Gibbs 1904 William Crookes 1905 Dmitri Mendeleev 1908 Alfred Russel Wallace 1910 Francis Galton 1912 Felix Klein 1918 Hendrik Lorentz 1925 Albert Einstein 1929 Max Planck 1938 Niels Bohr 1947 G.H. Hardy 1950 James Chadwick 1951 David Keilin 1952 Paul Dirac 1953 Albert Kluyver 1954 Edmund Whittaker 1955 Ronald Fisher 1956 Patrick Blackett 1957 Howard Florey 1958 John Edensor Littlewood 1959 Macfarlane Burnet 1960 Harold Jeffreys 1961 Hans Krebs 1962 Cyril Hinshelwood 1963 Paul Fildes 1964 Sydney Chapman 1965 Alan Hodgkin 1966 William Lawrence Bragg 1967 Bernard Katz 1968 Tadeus Reichstein 1969 Peter Medawar 1970 Alexander Todd 1971 Norman Pirie 1972 Nevill Mott 1973 Andrew Huxley 1974 W.V.D. Hodge 1975 Francis Crick 1976 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 1977 Frederick Sanger 1978 Robert B. Woodward 1979 Max Perutz 1980 Derek Barton 1981 Peter Mitchell 1982 John Cornforth 1983 Rodney Porter 1984 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1985 Aaron Klug 1986 Rudolph Peierls 1987 Robert Hill 1988 Michael Francis Atiyah 1989 Cesar Milstein 1990 Abdus Salam 1991 Sydney Brenner 1992 George Porter 1993 James Watson 1994 Charles Frank 1995 Frank Fenner 1996 Alan Cottrell 1997 Hugh Huxley 1998 James Lighthill 1999 John Maynard Smith 2000 Alan Battersby 2001 Jacques Miller 2002 John Pople This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.