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 4
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
French chemist
Franz Ernst Neumann
German mineralogist
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
French chemist
Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
Italian astronomer
Julius Plücker
German mathematician
William Lewis
Fictional character
James Rennell
English geographer
Stephen Hales
English clergyman
Henry Kater
Physicist
John Dollond
Optician
Robert Seppings
English naval architect
Carlo Matteucci
Italian physicist
Bernard Katz
Physician
Giovanni Plana
Italian astronomer
Michel Chasles
French mathematician
Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
Abdus Salam
Pakistani theoretical physicist
James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematician
Charles Blagden
Physician
Benjamin Thompson
Physicist
Andre Geim
Dutch-British physicist
George de Hevesy
Chemist
Karl Gegenbaur
Higher education teacher
Richard Kirwan
Irish geologist
Albert Kluyver
Dutch microbiologist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Henri Milne-Edwards
French zoologist
John Theophilus Desaguliers
Natural philosopher
Jean-André Deluc
Swiss geoscientist
Robert Brown
Former South Carolina State Representative
Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist
John Hunter
Former Governor of New South Wales
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Claude Bernard
French physiologist
Peter Barlow
Fictional character
James Cook
British explorer
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist
Joseph Priestley
Chemist
Smithson Tennant
English chemist
Karl Ernst von Baer
German scientist
Alexander von Humboldt
German geographer
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Léon Foucault
French physicist
Alan Fersht
Head of college of the Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist
John William Strutt
British mathematician
Rudolf Virchow
Physician
