The Franklin Médaille is a scientific distinction decreed by the Franklin Institut in the honor of Benjamin Franklin. It rewards for the people whose work is useful for humanity, made progress science, opened new research fields, and improved our comprehension of the universe. It is annually decreed in April with Philadelphia. It was replaced in 1998 by the Médaille Benjamin Franklin.

List prizes winner

1915 to 1919

• 1915 : Thomas Alva Edison (engineerings) and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (physical)
• 1916: John J. Carty (engineerings) and Theodore William Richards (chemistry)
• 1917: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (physical) and David Watson Taylor (engineerings)
• 1918: Guglielmo Marconi (engineerings) and Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (physical)
• 1919: James Dewar (physical) and George Owen Squier (engineerings)

1920 to 1929

• 1920: Svante August Arrhenius (chemistry) and Charles Algernon Parsons (engineerings)

• 1921: Charles Fabry (physical) and Frank Julian Sprague (engineerings)
• 1922: Ralph Modjeski (engineerings) and Joseph John Thomson (physical)
• 1923: Auguste G. Ferrie (engineerings and cognitive science) and Albert A. Michelson (physical)
• 1924: Ernest Rutherford (chemistry) and Edward Weston (engineerings)
• 1925: Elihu Thomson (engineerings) and Pieter Zeeman (physical)
• 1926: Niels Bohr (physical) and Samuel Rea (engineerings)
• 1927: George Ellery Hauls (physical) and max Planck (physical)
• 1928: Charles F. Brush (engineerings) and Walther Nernst (chemistry)
• 1929: Emile Berliner (engineerings) and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (physical)

1930 to 1939

• 1930 : William Henry Bragg (physical) and John Frank Stevens (engineerings)

• 1931: James Hopwood Jean (physical) and Willis Rodney Whitney (engineerings)
• 1932: Philipp Lenard (physical) and Ambrose Swasey (engineerings)
• 1933: Paul Sabatier (chemistry) and Orville Wright (engineerings)
• 1934: Irving Langmuir (chemistry) and Henry Norris Russell (physical)
• 1935: Albert Einstein (physical) and John Ambrose Fleming (engineerings)
• 1936: Frank Baldwin Jewett and Charles Franklin Kettering (engineerings)
• 1937: Peter Debye (chemistry) and Robert Andrews Millikan (physical)
• 1938: William Frederick Durand (engineerings) and Charles August Klaus (chemistry)
• 1939: Edwin Hubble (physical) and Albert Sauveur (engineerings)

1940 to 1949

• 1940 : Leo Hendrik Baekeland (engineerings) and Arthur Holly Compton (physical)

• 1941: Edwin H. Armstrong (engineerings) and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (physical)
• 1942: Jerome Clarke Hunsaker and Paul Dyer Merica (engineerings)
• 1943: George Washington Pierce (engineerings) and Harold Clayton Urey (physical)
• 1944: William David Coolidge (engineerings) and Pyotr Kapitsa (physical)
• 1945: Harlow Shapley (physical)
• 1946: Henry Clapp Sherman (life sciences) and Henry Thomas Tizard (life sciences)
• 1947: Enrico Fermi (physical) and Robert Robinson (chemistry)
• 1948: Wendell Meredith Stanley (life sciences) and Theodore von Karman (engineerings)
• 1949: Theodor Svedberg (life sciences)

1950 to 1959

• 1950 : Eugene P. Wigner (physical)

• 1951: James Chadwick (physical)
• 1952: Wolfgang Pauli (physical)
• 1953: William Francis Gibbs (engineerings)
• 1954: Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (engineerings)
• 1955: Arne Tiselius (life sciences)
• 1956: Frank Whittle (engineerings)
• 1957: Hugh Scott Taylor (chemistry)
• 1958: Donald Wills Douglas (engineerings)
• 1959: Hans Albrecht Bethe (physical)

1960 to 1969

• 1960 : Roger Adams (engineerings)

• 1961: Detlev W. Bronk (life sciences)
• 1962: Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (life sciences)
• 1963: Glenn T. Seaborg (physical)
• 1964: Gregory Breit (physical)
• 1965: Frederick Seitz (engineerings)
• 1966: Britton Chance (life sciences)
• 1967: Murray Freezing-Mann (physical)
• 1968: Marshall Warren Nirenberg (life sciences)
• 1969: John Archibald Wheeler (physical)

1970 to 1979

• 1970 : Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky (physical)

• 1971: Hannes Alfven (physical)
• 1972: George B. Kistiakowsky (chemistry)
• 1973: Theodosius Grigorevich Dobzhansky (life sciences)
• 1974: Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov (physical)
• 1975: John Bardeen (physical)
• 1976: Malhon B. Hoagland (life sciences)
• 1977: Cyril Manton Harris (engineerings)
• 1978: Elias James Corey (chemistry)
• 1979: G. Evelyn Hutchinson (life sciences)

1980 to 1997

• 1980 : Avram Goldstein (life sciences) and Lyman Spitzer Jr. (physical)

• 1981: Stephen Hawking (physical)
• 1982: Cesar Milstein (life sciences) and Kenneth Geddes Wilson (physical)
• 1984: Verner E. Suomi (engineerings)
• 1985: George Claude Pimentel (physical)
• 1986: Benoit Mandelbrot (physical)
• 1987: Stanley Cohen (life sciences)
• 1988: Donald Knuth (data-processing and cognitive science)
• 1990: Hugh E. Huxley (life sciences) and David Turnbull (physical)
• 1992: Frederick Queens (physical)
• 1995: Gerald 'T Hooft (physical)
• 1996: Richard E. Smalley (chemistry)
• 1997: Mario Renato Capecchi (life sciences)

External bonds

• Franklin Medal on the site of Franklin Institute