The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, conferred for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science. It is the oldest Royal Society medal awarded and the oldest surviving scientific award in the world, first given in 1731 to Stephen Gray. It originated from a bequest of one hundred pounds left to the Royal Society in 1709 by Sir Godfrey Copley, and has often been viewed as a predecessor to the Nobel Prize.
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The Copley Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Society.
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The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science".
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The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science".
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is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science"
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Fellow of the Royal Society (1766) Copley Medal (1772)
James Prescott Joule (Wikipedia)
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Royal Medal (1852), Copley Medal (1870), Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Albert Medal (1880)
Alexander von Humboldt (Wikipedia)
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Copley Medal (1852)
Richard Owen (Wikipedia)
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Wollaston Medal (1838) Royal Medal (1846) Copley Medal (1851) Baly Medal (1869) Clarke Medal (1878) Linnean Medal (1888)
Georg Simon Ohm (Wikipedia)
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Copley Medal (1841)
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Copley Medal (1841)
View the Source Urbain Le Verrier (Wikipedia)
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Copley Medal (1846), Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1868, 1876)
Roderick Murchison (Wikipedia)
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Copley Medal (1849) Makdougall Brisbane Prize (1859) Wollaston Medal (1864) Founder's Medal (1871)
Francis Galton (Wikipedia)
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Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal (1853) Royal Medal (1886) Huxley Memorial Medal (1901) Darwin-Wallace Medal (Silver, 1908) Knight Bachelor (1909) Copley Medal (1910)
Hans Krebs (biochemist) (Wikipedia)
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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1953) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1953) Royal Medal (1954) Copley Medal (1961)
Richard Henderson (Wikipedia)
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Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Louis-Jeantet Prize (1993), Copley Medal (2016), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
Henry Hallett Dale (Wikipedia)
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Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (1914) Royal Medal (1924) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1926) Knight Bachelor (1932) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1936) Copley Medal (1937) Order of the British Empire, Knight Grand Cross (1943) Order of Merit (1944) Freedom of the City (Dundee) (1947) Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Albert Medal (1956)
Robin Hill (biochemist) (Wikipedia)
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Royal Medal (1963) Copley Medal (1987)
Charles Frank (physicist) (Wikipedia)
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Copley Medal (1994) Guthrie Medal (1982) Gregori Aminoff Prize (1981) Bakerian Medal (1973) Griffith Medal (1967) Holweck Medal (1963)
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