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Hace 1 día · The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science". [2] It alternates between the physical sciences or mathematics and the biological sciences. [3] Given annually, the medal is the oldest Royal Society medal awarded and the oldest surviving scientific ...
- Outstanding research in any branch of science
- 1731; 292 years ago
- United Kingdom
- Royal Society
Hace 1 día · Gauss received the Lalande Prize from the French Academy of Science in 1809 for the theory of planets and the means of determining their orbits from only three observations, the Danish Academy of Science prize in 1823 for "his study of angle-preserving maps", and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1838 for "his inventions and ...
- Mathematics and sciences
Hace 2 días · He received the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1951 and its Copley Medal in 1957. By custom, the president of the Royal Society served for five years, and the position alternated between the mathematical and physical sciences, and the biological sciences, so Florey was eligible in 1960.
Hace 5 días · However, the pace of industrial and commercial progress directed his attention to large scale engineering works.’ in 1759 he published the paper Experimental inquiry concerning the powers of water and wind in the moving of Mills in which he developed concepts and data that would form the basis of the Smeaton coefficient, for which he received the Society’s Copley Medal.
Hace 4 días · Endowments from the 18th century onward made possible prizes for various aspects of science that are still awarded today—most notably the Copley Medal, which, stemming from a bequest by Sir Godfrey Copley in 1709, became the most prestigious scientific award in Britain.
Hace 4 días · The first award of the Copley medal was made in 1731, and of the Rumford medal in 1800 to the founder himself (Benjamin, Count Rumford) for his various discoveries respecting light and heat.
Hace 5 días · Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. 16 May 2024. Over 90 exceptional researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Recognised for their invaluable contributions to science, the elected Fellows are leaders in their fields.
