The Copley Medal is a scientific award for distinguished achievement in any field of science established by the Royal Society of London 1731. Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 It is the Society's highest and oldest award.

The Copley Medal has its beginnings in 1709 with a bequest by Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet of GB£100 to the Royal Society. Sir Godfrey Copley 2nd Baronet FRS (c 1653 – 9 April 1709) was a wealthy English landowner art-collector and public figure who lived in The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency Copley, a wealthy landowner from Sprotbrough, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was elected to the Society in 1691. The Parish of Sprotbrough and Cusworth lies three miles to the north west of Doncaster town centre in South Yorkshire, England and is split by the Doncaster is a large town in South Yorkshire, England and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. Divisions and environs South Yorkshire is divided into four local government districts they are the City of Sheffield, the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster

The Copley Medal is one of ten awarded by the Society, and alternates between the physical sciences and the biological sciences. Medalists are are selected by the Fellows of the Society, and are presented with a medal of silver gilt, and a GB£5,000 purse. A medal is usually a Coin -like sculpted object of metal or other material that has been engraved with an Insignia, Portrait or other artistic rendering In American English, a purse is a small Bag, also called a handbag or a pocketbook.

Contents 1 Medalists 1.1 1700s 1.2 1800s 1.3 1900s 1.4 2000s 2 See also 3 References

Medalists

1700s

1800s

1900s

2000s

See also

• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people

References

• The Copley Medal (1731). John Theophilus Desaguliers (pronounced day-za-güly-ay ( 13 March 1683 &ndash 29 February 1744) was a Natural philosopher born in John Theophilus Desaguliers (pronounced day-za-güly-ay ( 13 March 1683 &ndash 29 February 1744) was a Natural philosopher born in John Belchier (1706&mdash 6 February 1785) was a British surgeon. Stephen Hales, FRS ( 17 September 1677 &ndash 4 January 1761) was an English Physiologist, Chemist John Theophilus Desaguliers (pronounced day-za-güly-ay ( 13 March 1683 &ndash 29 February 1744) was a Natural philosopher born in For other men with similar names see Christopher Middleton Christopher Middleton (late 1600s &ndash February 12, 1770 Abraham Trembley ( 3 September 1710 &ndash 12 May 1784) was a Swiss naturalist. Henry Baker ( 8 May 1698 &ndash 25 November 1774) was an English naturalist. William Watson ( 3 April 1715 &ndash 10 May 1787) was an English physician and scientist who was born and died in London Benjamin Robins (1707&ndash 29 July 1751) was an English scientist, mathematician, and Engineer. Gowin Knight (born Corringham, Essex, England, 1713 died June 8, 1772) was the Inventor of a process for creating strongly This article describes the English astronomer for other people sharing the name see James Bradley (disambiguation James Bradley (March 1693 John Harrison (24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776 was an English Clockmaker. This article is about the ornithologist George Edwards ( April 3, 1694 - July 23, 1773) was an English John Canton ( July 31, 1718 &ndash March 22, 1772) was an English Physicist. Sir John Pringle 1st Baronet, FRS, ( April 10, 1707 - January 18, 1782) was a Scottish Physician who has been Benjamin Franklin ( April 17 1790 was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. John Huxham was born 1672 close to Totnes, Devon. He was a provincial doctor and surgeon notable for his study of Fevers In 1750 Huxham published his Essay Lord Charles Cavendish FRS ( 17 March, 1704 &ndash 28 April 1783) was a British nobleman Whig politician and scientist John Dollond ( June 10, 1706 - November 30, 1761) was an English Optician. This article is about the 18th century civil engineer For the baggage handler involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, see John Smeaton (baggage John Canton ( July 31, 1718 &ndash March 22, 1772) was an English Physicist. Edward Hussey Delaval (born 1729 died August 14, 1814 in Westminster) was a scholar and scientist Henry Cavendish, FRS (10 October 1731 - 24 February 1810 was a British Scientist noted for his discovery of Hydrogen or what he called "inflammable John Ellis FRS (c 1710 - October 15, 1776) was an British linen merchant and naturalist. Peter Woulfe (1727 &ndash 1803 was an Irish Chemist and Mineralogist who first had the idea that Wolframite might contain a previously undiscovered William Hewson ( November 14, 1739 – May 1, 1774) was an 18th Century surgeon, anatomist and physiologist who Sir William Hamilton, KB ( 13 December 1730 &ndash 6 April 1803) was a Scottish diplomat, Antiquarian Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 ( Old John Walsh ( 1 July 1726 - 9 March, 1795) was a British scientist and Secretary to the Governor of Bengal. The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne ( 6 October[[ 732]] &ndash 9 February[[ 811]] was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. Captain James Cook FRS RN ( – 14 February 1779) was an English Explorer, Navigator and John Mudge (1721 &ndash 26 March 1793) was an English Physician and amateur creator of telescope mirrors who won the Copley Medal Charles Hutton ( August 14, 1737 &ndash January 27, 1823) was an English Mathematician. Samuel Vince (1749&mdash1821 was an English mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. Sir Frederick William Herschel FRS KH ( 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German -born British Richard Kirwan FRS ( August 1, 1733 &ndash June 22, 1812) was an Irish Scientist. John Goodricke FRS ( September 17 1764 &ndash April 20 1786) was an eminent and profoundly Deaf amateur Astronomer For the former Maryland State Police Superintendent see Thomas E Edward Waring (1736 – August 15, 1798) was an English Mathematician who was born in Old Heath (near Shrewsbury) General William Roy (1726 &ndash 1790 was a Scottish Military engineer, surveyor, and Antiquarian. John Hunter ( February 13, 1728 - October 16, 1793) was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists Sir Charles Brian Blagden FRS ( April 17, 1748 &ndash1820 was a British physician and scientist William Morgan (June 1750 &ndash May 4 1833 was a Welsh physician Major James Rennell FRS ( December 3, 1742 - March 29, 1830) was an English Geographer, Historian Jean-André Deluc ( February 8, 1727 – November 7, 1817) was a Swiss geologist and Meteorologist. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: de Reichsgraf von Rumford FRS ( 26 March 1753 – 21 August 1814 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was a Lombard physicist known especially for the development of the first electric cell in Jesse Ramsden ( October 6, 1735 – November 5, 1800) was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker George Atwood (October 1745– July 11, 1807) was an English Mathematician who invented a machine for illustrating the law of uniformly Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn 6th Baronet ( August 23 1751 &ndash August 11 1804) was an English Politician Charles Hatchett ( 2 January 1765 - 10 March 1847) was an English chemist who discovered the element Niobium. This subject should not be confused with John Hellins, 1829–87 Clergyman and entomologist. Edward Charles Howard, born 28 May 1774 the youngest son of the Duke of Norfolk died 27 September 1816 was a British Chemist, who has also been described as "the Sir Astley Paston Cooper 1st Baronet ( August 23, 1768 &ndash February 12, 1841) English surgeon and Anatomist William Hyde Wollaston FRS ( August 6, 1766 &ndash December 22, 1828) was an English Chemist and physicist Richard Chenevix FRS (ca 1774 &ndash 5 April 1830) was an Irish chemist Smithson Tennant ( November 30, 1761 - February 22, 1815) was an English Chemist. Sir Humphry Davy 1st Baronet FRS MRIA (17 December 1778 &ndash 29 May 1829 was a British Chemist and inventor ReferenceFletcher HR 1969 The Story of the Royal Horticultural Society 1804 -1968Oxford and London Oxford University Press for the Royal Horticultural Society Portrait facing page 52 Sir Everard Home 1st Baronet FRS (b Hull May 6 1756; d August 31 1832 in London was a British Physician For other men with the same name see Wiliam Henry (disambiguation. Edward Troughton (October 1753 &ndash June 12 1835) was a British instrument maker born in Corney Cumberland who was notable for making Telescopes Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie 1st Baronet ( June 9, 1783 &mdash October 21, 1862) was an English Physiologist and surgeon William Thomas Brande FRS ( 11 January 1788 - 11 February 1866) English Chemist, was born in London Sir James Ivory ( February 17, 1765 &ndash September 21 1842) was a Scottish Mathematician. Sir David Brewster, FRS ( 11 December 1781 &ndash 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist inventor and writer Henry Kater ( April 16, 1777 &ndash April 26, 1835) English Physicist of German descent was born at Bristol Sir Robert Seppings FRS ( 1767 - September 25, 1840) was an English naval architect General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS ( October 14, 1788 &ndash May 26, 1883) was an Irish Astronomer Sir John Frederick William Herschel 1st Baronet KH, FRS ( March 7, 1792 &ndash May 11, 1871)was an The Very Rev Dr William Buckland DD ( Axminster, 12 March, 1784 – Islip, 14 August, 1856) was an English John Pond FRS ( 1767 &ndash 7 September[[ 836]] was a renowned English astronomer who became the sixth Astronomer Royal John Brinkley (1763&mdash September 14, 1835) was the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland and later Bishop of Cloyne. François Jean Dominique Arago ( Francesc Joan Dominic Aragó; 26 February 1786 2 October 1853 was a French Catalan Mathematician, For the Coronation Street character of the same name see Peter Barlow (Coronation Street Peter Barlow ( October 15 Sir James South (October 1785 &ndash October 19 1867) was a British Astronomer. William Prout FRS ( January 15, 1785 &ndash April 9, 1850) was an English Chemist, Physician Henry Foster (1796 &ndash 5 February 1831) was a British naval officer who took part in expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and Sir George Biddell Airy FRS (27 July 1801&ndash2 January 1892 was an English Mathematician and Astronomer, Astronomer Royal Michael Faraday, FRS ( September 22 1791 – August 25 1867) was an English Siméon-Denis Poisson (21 June 1781 &ndash 25 April 1840 was a French Mathematician, Geometer, and Physicist. Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana ( November 6, 1781 &ndash January 20, 1864) was an Italian Astronomer and Mathematician Sir William Snow Harris ( April 1, 1791 - January 22, 1867) was an English electrician Friherre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 &ndash 7 August 1848 was a Swedish chemist Francis Kiernan FRS ( 2 October 1800 – 31 December 1874) was an anatomist and physician Antoine César Becquerel ( March 7, 1788 &ndash January 18, 1878) was a French Scientist and a pioneer in the study of John Frederic Daniell ( 12 March 1790 &ndash 13 March 1845) was an English Chemist and Physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (ˈɡaʊs, Gauß Carolus Fridericus Gauss ( 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German Michael Faraday, FRS ( September 22 1791 – August 25 1867) was an English Robert Brown FRS ( 21 December, 1773 &ndash 10 June, 1858) was a Scottish scientist who is acknowledged as the leading botanist Justus von Liebig ( May 12, 1803 &ndash April 18, 1873) was a German Chemist Jacques Charles François Sturm ( September 29, 1803 - December 15, 1855) French Mathematician, of German extraction Georg Simon Ohm' was a German physicist As a high school teacher Ohm began his research with the recently invented Electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count James MacCullagh (1809 – 24 October, 1847) was an Irish Mathematician. Jean Baptiste André Dumas ( July 14, 1800 - April 10, 1884) French Chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis Carlo Matteucci ( June 21, 1811 - June 25, 1868) was an Italian Physicist and neurophysiologist who was Not to be confused with army general Theodore Schwan. ---- Theodor Schwann ( December 7, 1810 &ndash January Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier ( March 11, 1811 &ndash September 23, 1877) was a French Mathematician who specialized in Celestial Sir John Frederick William Herschel 1st Baronet KH, FRS ( March 7, 1792 &ndash May 11, 1871)was an John Couch Adams ( June 5 1819 &ndash January 21, 1892) was a British Mathematician and Astronomer Sir Roderick Impey Murchison 1st Baronet KCB FRS ( 19 February, 1792 &ndash 22 October, 1871) was an influential Peter Andreas Hansen ( December 8, 1795  – March 28, 1874) was a Danish Astronomer, was born at Tønder Sir Richard Owen KCB ( Lancaster, July 20 1804 &ndash December 18 1892) was an English Biologist (September 14 1769 &ndash May 6 1859 was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister philosopher and linguist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove ( October 6, 1803 &ndash April 4, 1879) was a Prussian Physicist and meteorologist. Johannes Peter Müller ( July 14, 1801 &ndash April 28, 1858) was a German Physiologist, comparative anatomist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (ʒɑ̃ bɛʁnaʁ leɔ̃ fu'ko ( 18 September 1819 &ndash 11 February 1868) was a French physicist Henri Milne-Edwards ( October 23, 1800 - July 29, 1885) was an eminent French Zoologist. Michel Eugène Chevreul ( August 31, 1786 &ndash April 9, 1889) was a French Chemist whose work with Fatty acids Sir Charles Lyell 1st Baronet, KT, FRS (14 November 1797 &ndash 22 February 1875 was a Scottish Lawyer, Geologist, and protagonist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( October 24, 1804 &ndash June 23, 1891) was a German Physicist. Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811 &ndash 16 August 1899 was a German Chemist. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28 1807 — December 14 1873) was a Swiss - American Zoologist, Glaciologist Thomas Graham FRS ( December 21, 1805 – September 16, 1869) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Adam Sedgwick ( 22 March 1785 &ndash 27 January 1873) was one of the founders of modern Geology. Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life Michel Chasles (15 November 1793 &ndash 18 December 1880 was a French Mathematician. Julius Plücker ( June 16, 1801 &ndash May 22, 1868) was a German Mathematician and Physicist. Karl Ernst von Baer ( -) was a Baltic German Biologist and a founding father of Embryology. Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 - 19 October 1875 was a British Scientist and Inventor of many scientific breakthroughs Henri Victor Regnault ( July 21, 1810 – January 19, 1878) was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements James Prescott Joule FRS (ˈdʒuːl December 24, 1818 &ndash October 11, 1889) was an English Physicist Julius Robert von Mayer ( November 25, 1814 &ndash March 20, 1878) was a German Physician and Physicist and Friedrich Wöhler (31 July 1800 - 23 September 1882 was a German Chemist, best-known for his synthesis of Urea, but also the first to isolate several Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895 a French Chemist and Microbiologist, is best known for remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and August Wilhelm von Hofmann ( April 8, 1818 &ndash May 5, 1892) was a German Chemist. Claude Bernard ( July 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878) was a French Physiologist. James Dwight Dana (February 12 1813 &ndash April 14 1895 was an American Geologist, Mineralogist and Zoologist. Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (Born Rudolf Gottlieb, January 2, 1822 &ndash August 24, 1888) was a German Physicist James Joseph Sylvester ( September 3, 1814 London – March 15, 1897 Oxford) was an English Mathematician Adolphe Wurtz ( November 26, 1817 - May 10, 1884) was a French Chemist. Arthur Cayley ( August 16 1821 - January 26 1895) was a British Mathematician. William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin (or Lord Kelvin) OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 &ndash 17 December 1907 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig ( 29 December 1816 &ndash 23 April 1895) was a German Physician and Physiologist Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (also August Kekulé) (7 September 1829 &ndash 13 July 1896 was a German organic chemist. Franz Ernst Neumann ( September 11, 1798 - May 23, 1895) was a German Mineralogist, Physicist and Mathematician Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, OM, GCSI, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911 was an English Botanist and Explorer Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 was an English Biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy The Reverend George Salmon ( September 25, 1819 - January 22, 1904) was firstly a Mathematician whose publications in algebraic geometry Simon Newcomb ( March 12 1835 &ndash July 11 1909) was a Canadian American Astronomer and Mathematician Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow ( 13 October 1821 &ndash 5 September 1902) was a German doctor, anthropologist, public health Sir George Gabriel Stokes 1st Baronet FRS ( 13 August 1819 &ndash 1 February 1903) was a mathematician and physicist Sir Edward Frankland, KCB, FRS ( January 18, 1825 &ndash August 9, 1899) was a Chemist, one of the foremost Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass ( Weierstraß) ( October 31, 1815 &ndash February 19, 1897) was a German mathematician Carl Gegenbaur ( August 21, 1826 - June 14, 1903)also Karl Gegenbaur,was a German Anatomist and Professor Rudolph Albert von Kölliker ( July 6, 1817 &ndash November 2, 1905) was a Swiss Anatomist and Physiologist Sir William Huggins, OM, FRS ( February 7 1824 &ndash May 12 1910) was an English Astronomer John William Strutt 3rd Baron Rayleigh OM (12 November 1842 &ndash 30 June 1919 was an English Physicist who with William Ramsay, discovered Marcellin (or Marcelin Pierre Eugène Berthelot ( October 25, 1827 - March 18, 1907) was a French Chemist and Politician Josiah Willard Gibbs ( February 11, 1839 &ndash April 28, 1903) was an American theoretical Physicist, Chemist Joseph Lister 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS ( 5 April 1827 &ndash 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon Eduard Suess ( August 20, 1831 London &ndash April 26, 1914 Vienna) was a Geologist who was an expert on the Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 was an English Chemist and Physicist. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes spelled Mendeleyev; Дми́трий Ива́нович Менделе́ев) ( &ndash) was a Russian chemist and Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Илья Ильич Мечников ( May 16 1845 – July 15 1916) was a Russian microbiologist Albert Abraham Michelson ( December 19, 1852 &ndash May 9, 1931) was a Polish - American Physicist known Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (8 January 1823 &ndash 7 November 1913 was an British naturalist, Explorer, Geographer George William Hill ( March 3, 1838 &ndash April 16, 1914) was a U Sir Francis Galton FRS ( 16 February 1822 &ndash 17 January 1911) half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an Sir George Howard Darwin, FRS ( July 9 1845 &ndash Cambridge, December 7 1912) was an English Felix Christian Klein ( 25 April 1849 &ndash 22 June 1925) was a German Mathematician, known for his work in Group Sir E Ray Lankester KCB, FRS ( May 15, 1847 – August 13, 1929) was a British Zoologist, born in Sir Joseph John “JJ” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 &ndash 30 August 1940 was a British Physicist and Nobel laureate For other uses see Pavlov (disambiguation. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов September 14, 1849 &ndash February Sir James Dewar FRS ( September 20, 1842 &ndash March 27, 1923) was a Scottish Chemist and Physicist Pierre Paul Emile Roux (b December 17, 1853, Confolens ( Charente) France, d Hendrik Antoon Lorentz ( July 18, 1853 &ndash February 4, 1928) was a Dutch Physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Sir William Maddock Bayliss ( May 2 1860 - August 27 1924) was an English Physiologist. Horace Tabberer Brown ( 20 July 1848 - 6 February 1925) was a British Chemist. Sir Joseph Larmor ( 11 July 1857 Magheragall, County Antrim, Northern Ireland – 19 May 1942 Holywood Ernest Rutherford 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, PC, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937 was a New Zealand Physicist Sir Horace Lamb FRS ( 29 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a British Applied mathematician and author of several influential Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer ( June 2 1850, Hornsey, Middlesex &ndash March 29 1935, North Berwick, Albert Einstein ( German: ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n; English: ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a German -born theoretical Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS ( June 20, 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex - May 16, 1947 Cambridge Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM, GBE, PRS ( November 27, 1857 - March 4, 1952) was an English neurophysiologist Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, OM (13 June 1854 &ndash 11 February 1931 was a British Engineer, best known for his invention of the Steam turbine. Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE (2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942 was a British Physicist and Chemist who uniquely shared the Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS ( September 12 1851 &ndash October 17 1934) was a versatile German -born British George Ellery Hale ( June 29 1868 &ndash February 21 1938) was an American solar Astronomer, born in Chicago Theobald Smith ( July 31, 1859 &ndash December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely-considered John Scott Haldane CH ( May 3 1860 &ndash March 14 / March 15 1936) was a Scottish Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH ( February 14, 1869 &ndash November 15, 1959) was a Scottish Physicist and Sir Arthur John Evans ( July 8 1851 &ndash July 11 1941) was a British Archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Sir Henry Hallett Dale OM GBE FRS ( June 9, 1875 &ndash July 23, 1968) was an English Pharmacologist Niels Henrik David Bohr (nels ˈb̥oɐ̯ˀ in Danish 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962 was a Danish Physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding Thomas Hunt Morgan ( September 25, 1866 &ndash December 4, 1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. Paul Langevin (23 January 1872 &ndash 19 December 1946 was a prominent French Physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Thomas Lewis has been the name of several notable men Thomas Lewis (American football (b Sir Robert Robinson OM, PRS ( 13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was an English chemist and Nobel laureate Sir Joseph Barcroft ( 26 July 1872 - 21 March 1947) was a British Physiologist best known for his studies of the Oxygenation Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM ( 7 March 1886 - 27 June 1975) was a Physicist, Mathematician and expert on Fluid dynamics Oswald Theodore Avery ( October 21, 1877 &ndash 2 February, 1955) was a Canadian -born American Physician and Edgar Douglas Adrian 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS ( 30 November 1889 &ndash 4 August 1977) was a British electrophysiologist Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS ( February 7, 1877 Cranleigh, Surrey, England &ndash December 1, 1947 Archibald Vivian Hill CH CBE FRS ( 26 September 1886 &ndash 3 June 1977) was an English Physiologist Georg Karl von Hevesy ( August 1, 1885 &ndash July 5, 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate recognised Sir James Chadwick, CH (20 October 1891 &ndash 24 July 1974 was an English Physicist and Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the David Keilin ( March 21 1887, Moscow &ndash February 27 1963, Cambridge) was an Entomologist, among other things Albert Jan Kluyver ( June 3 1888, Breda - May 14 1956) was a Dutch Microbiologist and Biochemist. Edmund Taylor Whittaker ( 24 October[[ 873]] - 24 March[[ 956]] was a mathematician who contributed widely to Applied mathematics, Mathematical physics Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS ( 17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English Statistician, Evolutionary Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Baron Blackett OM CH FRS ( 18 November 1897 &ndash 13 July 1974) was an Howard Walter Florey Baron Florey, OM, FRS, ( September 24, 1898 &ndash February 21, 1968) was an Australian John Edensor Littlewood ( 9 June 1885 &ndash 6 September 1977) was a British Mathematician, best known for his long collaboration Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, OM, AK, KBE (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985 usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was Sir Harold Jeffreys ( 22 April 1891 &ndash 18 March 1989) was a mathematician statistician geophysicist and astronomer Hans Adolf Krebs ( August 25, 1900 – November 22, 1981) was a German, later British Medical doctor and Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS ( June 19, 1897 &ndash October 9, 1967) was an English Physical chemist Sir Paul Gordon Fildes FRS ( 10 February 1882 - 5 February 1971) was a British Pathologist and Microbiologist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (5 February 1914 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England – 20 December 1998 Cambridge Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, ( 31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian Physicist Sir Bernard Katz, FRS ( 26 March 1911 &ndash 20 April 2003) was a German -born biophysicist, noted for his work Tadeusz Reichstein ( July 20, 1897 &ndash August 1, 1996) was a Polish-born Swiss Chemist and Nobel Sir Peter Brian Medawar, OM, FRS, ( February 28, 1915 &ndash October 2, 1987) was a Brazilian born Alexander Robertus Todd Baron Todd, PC, OM, FRS ( 2 October 1907 &ndash 10 January 1997) was a Scottish Norman Wingate Pirie FRS ( 1 July 1907 - 29 March 1997)-was a British Biochemist and Virologist who along with Sir Nevill Francis Mott ( 30 September, 1905 &ndash 8 August, 1996) FRS, CH, was a British physicist Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London) is an English physiologist William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS ( 17 June 1903 - 7 July 1975) was a Scottish Mathematician, specifically a Geometer. Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 Ph Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot OM, FRS ( 12 May 1910 &ndash 29 July 1994) was a British Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and twice Robert Burns Woodward ( April 10 1917 &ndash July 8 1979) was an American organic chemist. Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM ( May 19 1914, Vienna, Austria – February 6 2002, Cambridge, Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS ( 8 September 1918 - 16 March 1998) was a British Organic chemist and Peter Dennis Mitchell ( September 29 1920 &ndash April 10 1992) was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Sir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth AC, CBE, FRS (born 7 September 1917) is an Australian scientist who won the Nobel Prize Rodney Robert Porter, FRS ( 8 October 1917 &ndash 7 September 1985) was an English Biochemist. Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ( Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர் English ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr( Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS (born 11 August 1926) is a Lithuanian born British Chemist and Biophysicist Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, ( June 5 1907, Berlin &ndash September 19 1995, Oxford) was a German -born British For other people names Robert Hill see the disambiguation page Robert Hill. Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE (b April 22, 1929) is a British Mathematician, and one of the César Milstein ( October 8 1927 &ndash March 24 2002) was an Argentine Biochemist in the field of Antibody Abdus Salam ( Urdu: محمد عبد السلام) ( January 29, 1926; Jhang Punjab &ndash November 21, Sydney Brenner, CH FRS (born January 13 1927) is a South African biologist and the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine George Porter Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS ( December 6, 1920 &ndash August 31, 2002) was a British Sir Charles Frank (1911-1998 was an eminent British theoretical physicist distinguished for many contributions to solid state physics geophysics and the theory of liquid crystals Frank John Fenner (born 21 December, 1914) is an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of Virology. Sir Alan Howard Cottrell (born 1919 is a British Metallurgist and Physicist. Hugh Esmor Huxley FRS (born February 25 1924) is a British biologist Sir Michael James Lighthill, FRS ( 23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician Maynard Smith redirects here -- for other uses see Maynard Smith (disambiguation Professor John Maynard Smith, F Sir Alan Rushton Battersby FRS (born 1925 is a retired Organic chemist known for his work on the genetic blueprint structure and synthetic pathway of Cyanocobalamin Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller FRS (born April 2 1931) is a distinguished research scientist Sir John Anthony Pople, FRS, ( October 31, 1925 &ndash March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, FRS (b 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist. Sir Harold (Harry Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October, 1939) is an English chemist and one of the 3 recipents to share the 1996 Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, FRS (b January 25, 1949) is a British Biochemist. Stephen William Hawking CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942 is a British theoretical physicist. Robert McCredie May Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, FRS (born Australia, 8 January 1936) has been Chief Scientific Adviser A list of famous Prizes Medals and Awards including cups trophies, Bowls Badges State decorations etc This is a list of Prizes that are named after people'. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people see Lists of etymologies. The Royal Society (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-29. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.

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