Copley Medal
The Copley Medal is an award given by the Royal Society, for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science. " It alternates between the physical and the biological sciences.
Copley Medal People (First 49 people) - Page 1
George Darwin
Astronomer ‧ Charles Darwin's son
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British mathematician
Joseph Hooker
American general
François Arago
Former Prime Minister of France
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian virologist
Thomas A. Morgan
Executive producer
Adam Sedgwick
British geologist
Charles Scott Sherrington
Neurophysiologist
Ronald Fisher
British polymath
David Brewster
Scottish scientist
James Dewar
British chemist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
British mathematician
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Australian scientist
Michael Atiyah
British-Lebanese mathematician
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer
Archibald Hill
British physiologist
Aaron Klug
British biophysicist
Rudolf Peierls
German-British physicist
George Ellery Hale
American astronomer
Horace Lamb
British mathematician
Gabriel Stokes
Former Acting Governor of Madras
Charles Algernon Parsons
Engineer
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American biologist
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish-British scientist
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Physiologist
William Hyde Wollaston
Chemist
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British physical chemist
Alec Jeffreys
British geneticist
George Gabriel
American multi-instrumentalist
Alfred Wallis
Fisherman
Edward Sabine
Irish astronomer
Abdul Salaam
Former american football player
Charles Parsons
American philosopher
Alan R. Battersby
Chemist
Sydney Chapman
British mathematician
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist
Julius von Mayer
German physician
Henri Victor Regnault
French chemist
Peter D. Mitchell
British biochemist
Frank Fenner
Australian scientist
Arthur Evans
Archaeologist
John Pople
British chemist
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
Italian sculptor
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Physicist
John Cornforth
Australian-British chemist
John Edensor Littlewood
British mathematician
