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John Theophilus Desaguliers has won the medal the most often, winning three times, in 1734, 1736 and 1741. In 1976, Dorothy Hodgkin became the first female recipient; Jocelyn Bell Burnell , in 2021, became the second.
- Outstanding research in any branch of science
- 1731; 292 years ago
- United Kingdom
- Royal Society
The medal’s domestic winners, ranging from Joseph Priestley (1772) through Charles Darwin (1864) to Stephen Hawking (2006), represent the depth, breadth, and durability of almost three centuries of British science.
YearRecipientAchievement*2022Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine TeamFor rapidly developing and deploying a ...2021For her work on the discovery of pulsars, ...2020Alan FershtFor developing and applying the methods ...2019For his exceptional contributions to the ...- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
30 de nov. de 2023 · The Copley Medal is thought to be the world's oldest scientific prize and it was awarded 170 years before the first Nobel Prize. Notable winners include Benjamin Franklin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.
- Premier Awards
- Lectures
- Medals
- Awards
Copley Medal
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS, for her work on the discovery of pulsars, one of the major astronomical discoveries of the 20th century.
Bakerian Medal and Lecture
Professor Michelle Simmons AO FRS, for seminal contributions to our understanding of nature at the atomic-scale by creating a sequence of world-first quantum electronic devices in which individual atoms control device behaviour.
Croonian Medal and Lecture
Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FMedSci FRSand Professor Sadaf Farooqi FMedSci FRS, for their seminal discoveries regarding the control of human body weight, resulting in novel diagnostics and therapies, which improve human health.
Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture
Professor Anne Neville OBE FREng FRS, for her innovative research into corrosion and tribology and the successful application of this to wide-ranging, real life, engineering problems.
David Attenborough Award and Lecture
Dr Adam Rutherford, for his contribution to strengthening public confidence in science through radio, TV, films, talks and books, and in particular, for challenging racist pseudoscience.
Francis Crick Medal and Lecture
Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, for enormous contributions to understanding the aetiology of cancers by her analyses of mutation signatures in cancer genomes, which is now being applied to cancer therapy.
Buchanan Medal
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith FMedSci FRS, for her pioneering work in epigenetics, her interdisciplinary work on genomic imprinting, the interplay between the genome and epigenome, and how genetic and environmental influences affect development and human diseases.
Darwin Medal
Professor Dolph Schluter FRS, for major and fundamental contributions to the understanding of the how species originate, adaptive radiations develop, and geographical patterns of biodiversity emerge and are maintained.
Davy Medal
Professor Malcolm Levitt FRS, for his contributions to the theory and methodology of nuclear magnetic resonance, including composite pulses, symmetry-based recoupling, long-lived nuclear spin states, and the study of endofullerenes by electromagnetic spectroscopies and neutron scattering.
Africa Prize
Professor George Warimwe, for his work on zoonoses vaccine development, capacity building in Africa, and his innovative research proposal.
Mullard Award
Professor Stephen Davies, for his long and successful record in converting brilliant academic ideas to commercial successes with world impact in the biotech sector.
Rising Star Africa Prize, in memory of Paul O’Brien FRS
Dr Nowsheen Goonoo, for her work on the fabrication, characterisation and application of biomaterials, and her innovative research proposal using locally-sourced seaweed to create a self-dissolving dressings for diabetic foot ulcers. The full list of medals and awards, including their description and past winners can be found at royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards. For any questions, please contact awards@royalsociety.org.
17 de may. de 2016 · Some names will be undoubtedly familiar to you – Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and Francis Crick have all been awarded the Copley Medal – but there are many others who are less well known, but whose legacies we live by every day.
In the early 1870s, James Prescott Joule, Julius Robert Mayer and Hermann Helmholtz each won the Royal Society of London's highly coveted Copley Medal. The medal was (and is) arguably Britain's most distinguished scientific award, and even with the coming of the Nobel prizes in 1901 is also arguably one of the world's premier scientific awards.
24 de ago. de 2021 · BBC. A leading astrophysicist from Northern Ireland has been awarded the world's oldest scientific prize for her work on the discovery of pulsars. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the...
