Rumford Medal

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Rumford Medal

HONOR

Awarded by the Royal Society in even-numbered years for an "outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe."

Official Website:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards/medals/RumfordMedal.htm

1800 Benjamin Count Rumford

1802 (no award)

1804 John Leslie

1806 William Murdock

1808 (no award)

1810 Étienne Louis Malus

1812 (no award)

1814 William Charles Wells

1816 Humphry Davy

1818 David Brewster

1820 (no award)

1822 (no award)

1824 Augustin-Jean Fresnel

1826 (no award)

1828 (no award)

1830 (no award)

1832 John Frederick Daniell

1834 Macedonio Melloni

1836 (no award)

1838 James David Forbes

1840 Jean-Baptiste Biot

1842 William Henry Fox Talbot

1844 (no award)

1846 Michael Faraday

1848 Henri-Victor Regnault

1850 François Arago

1852 George Gabriel Stokes

1854 Neil Arnott

1856 Louis Pasteur

1858 Jules Jamin

1860 James Clerk Maxwell

1862 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff

1864 John Tyndall

1866 Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau

1868 Balfour Stewart

1870 Alfred Olivier Des Cloizeaux

1872 Anders Jonas Ångström

1874 Joseph Norman Lockyer

1876 Pierre Janssen

1878 Alfred Cornu

1880 William Huggins

1882 William de Wiveleslie Abney

1884 Tobias Robertus Thalen

1886 Samuel P. Langley

1888 Pietro Tacchini

1890 Heinrich Hertz

1892 Nils C. Duner

1894 James Dewar

1896 Philipp Lenard and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

1898 Oliver Joseph Lodge

1900 Henri Becquerel

1902 Charles Algernon Parsons

1904 Ernest Rutherford

1906 Hugh Longbourne Callendar

1908 Hendrik Lorentz

1910 Heinrich Rubens

1912 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1914 Lord Rayleigh

1916 William Bragg

1918 Charles Fabry Alfred Perot

1920 Lord Rayleigh

1922 Pieter Zeeman

1924 Charles Vernon Boys

1926 Arthur Schuster

1928 Friedrich Paschen

1930 Peter Debye

1932 Fritz Haber

1934 Wander Johannes de Haas

1936 Ernest John Coker

1938 Robert W. Wood

1940 Manne Siegbahn

1942 Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson

1944 Harry Ralph Ricardo

1946 Alfred Egerton

1948 Franz Eugen Simon

1950 Frank Whittle

1952 Frits Zernike

1954 Cecil Reginald Burch

1956 Frank Philip Bowden

1958 Thomas Merton

1960 Alfred Gordon Gaydon

1962 Dudley Maurice Newitt

1964 Hendrick Christoffel van de Hulst

1966 William Penney

1968 Dennis Gabor

1970 Christopher Hinton

1972 Basil John Mason

1974 Alan Cottrell

1976 Ilya Prigogine

1978 George Porter

1980 William Frank Vinen

1982 Charles Gorrie Wynne

1984 Harold Horace Hopkins

1986 Denis Rooke

1990 Walter Spear

1992 Harold Temperley

1994 Andrew Keller

1996 Grenville Turner

1998 Richard Friend

2000 Wilson Sibbett

2002 David King

2004 Richard Dixon

2006 Jean-Pierre Hansen

2008 Edward Hinds

2010 Gilbert Lonzarich

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