Royal medal

The Royal Medal (royal medal) of the Royal Society (British Academy of Science) was established by the king George IV. Its existence was extended, with evolutions under the conditions of attribution, by the king William IV and the queen Victoria.

History

In the beginning, this medal of money gilded struck with the effigy of the queen or the king, rewarded the most important discoveries for the previous year. This condition of duration was extended to five years, then brought back to three. To the come to power of Victoria in 1837, he was added cycle a three years, with the field of the Mathématiques rewarded one year out of three.

In 1850, the conditions were again modified as follows:

… the Royal Medals in each year should important Be awarded for the two most contributions to the advancement off Natural Knowledge, published originally in Her Majesty' S dominions within has period off not more than ten years and not less than one year off the date off the award, subject, off race, to Her Majesty' S approval. … in the award off the Royal Medals, one should Be given in each off the two great divisions off Natural Knowledge. (the Royal Medals must be allotted each year for the two most important contributions in the field of the natural science published in the territories under the control of the queen during one time ranging between ten and one years before the handing-over of the reward. A medal must reward for work in each of two great divisions of the natural science).

At present three Royal, also known Medals under the name of Medals of the Queen , are decreed annually by the sovereign on recommendation of the council, two for the most important contributions in the field of the natural science (for each of the two great subdivisions) and the third in the field of sciences applied. To be rewarded, work must be carried out within the the Commonwealth.

List prizes winner

1826 to 1839

1840 to 1859

1860 to 1879

1880 to 1899

1900 to 1919

1920 to 1939

1940 to 1959

1960 to 1979

1980 to 1999

  • 1980 : John Paul Wild, Henry Harris, Denys Wilkinson

  • 1981: Ralph Riley, Marthe Louise Vogt, Geoffrey Wilkinson
  • 1982: William Hawthorne, Cesar Milstein, Richard Henry Dalitz
  • 1983: Daniel Joseph Bradley, Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg, John Frank Charles Kingman
  • 1984: Alexander Lamb Cullen, Mary Frances Lyon, Alan Rushton Battersby
  • 1985: John Hadji Argyris, John Bertrand Gurdon, Roger Penrose
  • 1986: EA Ash, Richard Fraud, Rex Richards
  • 1987: Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, Eric Denton, Francis Graham-Smith
  • 1988: Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow, Winifred Mr. Watkins, GK Batchelor
  • 1989: John Winnows, David Weatherall, John Charles Polanyi
  • 1990: Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, Anne Laura McLaren, Michael Victor Berry
  • 1991: John Mason, Michael John Berridge, daN Peter McKenzie
  • 1992: David Tabor, Anthony Epstein, Simon Kirwan Donaldson
  • 1993: R Hill, Horace Basil Barlow, Volker Heine
  • 1994: El Salvador Moncada, Eric H. Mansfield, Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
  • 1995: Donald Metcalf, Paul Mr. Nurse, RJP Williams
  • 1996: RA Hinde, J Heslop-Harrison, Andrew Wiles
  • 1997: Geoffrey Eglinton, John Maynard Smith, Donald Hill Perkins
  • 1998: Edwin Mellor Southern, Ricardo Miledi, Donald Charlton Bradley
  • 1999: John Frank Davidson, Patrick David Wall, Archibald Howie

2000 -

  • 2000 : Timothy Berners-Lee, Geoffrey Burnstock, Keith Usherwood Ingold

  • 2001: Richard Gardner, Gabriel Horn, Sam Edwards
  • 2002: Richard Peto, Suzanne Cory, Raymond Freeman
  • 2003: Kenneth Johnson, John Skehel, Nicholas Shackleton
  • 2004: James Black, Alec Jeffreys, Lord Lewis off Newnham
  • 2005: Michael Fisher, Anthony Pawson and Michael Pepper
  • 2006: Sir John Pendry, Sir Tim Hunt, David Baulcombe.
  • 2007: James Feast, Cyril Hilsum, Divided into volumes Lindahl

External bonds

  • Royal Medal on the site of Royal Society

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