Not to be confused with the Rumford Medal

In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, made two separate gifts of $5,000 each to the Royal Society of London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to enable them to give awards every two years for outstanding scientific research on heat or light. Not to be confused with the Rumford Prize In 1796, Benjamin Thompson known as Count Rumford, gave $5000 separately to the Royal Year 1796 ( MDCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: de Reichsgraf von Rumford FRS ( 26 March 1753 – 21 August 1814 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 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences awards the Rumford Prize; the Royal Society awards the Rumford Medal. Not to be confused with the Rumford Prize In 1796, Benjamin Thompson known as Count Rumford, gave $5000 separately to the Royal

Contents 1 List of prizewinners 1.1 1839-1899 1.2 1900-1949 1.3 Since 1951 2 External links 3 References and footnotes

List of prizewinners

1839-1899

• 1839 : Robert Hare
• 1862 : John Ericsson
• 1865 : Daniel Treadwell
• 1866 : Alvan Clark
• 1869 : George Henry Corliss
• 1871 : Joseph Harrison, Jr. This article is about John Ericsson the Swedish-American inventor Daniel Treadwell (1791-1872 was an American inventor born at Ipswich Mass. Alvan Clark ( March 8, 1804 &ndash August 19, 1887) born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling George Henry Corliss ( June 2, 1817 &ndash February 21, 1888) was an American Inventor, mechanical
• 1873 : Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
• 1875 : John William Draper
• 1880 : Josiah Willard Gibbs
• 1883 : Henry Augustus Rowland
• 1886 : Samuel Pierpont Langley
• 1888 : Albert Abraham Michelson
• 1891 : Edward Charles Pickering
• 1895 : Thomas Alva Edison
• 1898 : James Edward Keeler
• 1899 : Charles Francis Brush

1900-1949

• 1900 : Carl Barus
• 1901 : Elihu Thomson
• 1902 : George Ellery Hale
• 1904 : Ernest Fox Nichols
• 1907 : Edward Goodrich Acheson
• 1909 : Robert Williams Wood
• 1910 : Charles Gordon Curtis
• 1911 : James Mason Crafts ^[1]
• 1912 : Frederic Eugene Ives
• 1913 : Joel Stebbins
• 1914 : William David Coolidge
• 1915 : Charles Greeley Abbot
• 1917 : Percy Williams Bridgman
• 1918 : Theodore Lyman
• 1920 : Irving Langmuir
• 1925 : Henry Norris Russell
• 1926 : Arthur Holly Compton
• 1928 : Edward Leamington Nichols
• 1930 : John Stanley Plaskett
• 1931 : Karl Taylor Compton
• 1933 : Harlow Shapley
• 1937 : William Weber Coblentz
• 1939 : George Russell Harrison
• 1941 : Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
• 1943 : Charles Edward Mees
• 1945 : Edwin Herbert Land
• 1947 : Edmund Newton Harvey
• 1949 : Ira Sprague Bowen

Since 1951

• 1951 : Herbert E. Ives
• 1953 : Enrico Fermi, Willis E. Lamb, Jr. and Lars Onsager
• 1955 : James Franck
• 1957 : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1959 : George Wald
• 1961 : Charles H. Townes
• 1963 : Hans Albrecht Bethe
• 1965 : Samuel Cornette Collins and William David McElroy
• 1967 : Robert Henry Dicke and Cornelius B. Van Niel
• 1968 : Maarten Schmidt
• 1971 : Group awards
• 1973 : E. Bright Wilson
• 1976 : Bruno Rossi
• 1980 : Gregorio Weber, Chen Ning Yang and Robert L. Mills
• 1985 : Hans Georg Dehmelt, Martin Deutsch, Vernon Willard Hughes and Norman Foster Ramsey
• 1986 : Robert B. Leighton, Frank James Low and Gerry Neugebauer
• 1992 : James R. Lewis Morris Rutherfurd ( November 25, 1816 &ndash May 30, 1892) was an American Lawyer and Astronomer, and John William Draper ( May 5, 1811, &ndash January 4, 1882) was an American ( English -born Scientist, Philosopher Josiah Willard Gibbs ( February 11, 1839 &ndash April 28, 1903) was an American theoretical Physicist, Chemist Henry Augustus Rowland ( November 27, 1848 &ndash April 16, 1901) was a U Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22 1834 Roxbury Massachusetts &ndash February 27 1906 Aiken South Carolina) was an American Astronomer Albert Abraham Michelson ( December 19, 1852 &ndash May 9, 1931) was a Polish - American Physicist known Edward Charles Pickering ( July 19 1846 – February 3 1919) was an American Astronomer and Physicist, brother James Edward Keeler ( September 10 1857 – August 12 1900) was an American Astronomer. Charles Francis Brush ( March 17, 1849 &ndash June 15, 1929) was a U Elihu Thomson ( March 29, 1853  – March 13, 1937) was an engineer and Inventor who was instrumental in the founding George Ellery Hale ( June 29 1868 &ndash February 21 1938) was an American solar Astronomer, born in Chicago Ernest Fox Nichols ( June 1, 1869 &ndash April 29, 1924) was a U Edward Goodrich Acheson ( March 9, 1856 - July 6, 1931) was an American Chemist. Robert Williams Wood ( May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American Physicist. James Mason Crafts ( March 8 1839 &ndash 20 June 1917) was an American Chemist, most known for developing the Friedel-Crafts Frederick Eugene Ives (1856–1937 was a US inventor born at Litchfield, Connecticut. Joel Stebbins ( July 30 1878 &ndash March 16 1966) was an American Astronomer who pioneered Photoelectric William David Coolidge ( October 23, 1873 &ndash February 3, 1975) was an American physicist, who made major contributions Charles Greeley Abbot ( May 31, 1872 &ndash December 17, 1973) was an American Astrophysicist, Astronomer Percy Williams Bridgman ( April 21, 1882 &ndash August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics For other persons named Theodore Lyman see Theodore Lyman (disambiguation. Irving Langmuir ( January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn New York – August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole Massachusetts) was an Henry Norris Russell ( October 25, 1877 &ndash February 18, 1957) was an American Astronomer who along with Ejnar Arthur Holly Compton (September 10 1892 &ndash March 15 1962 was an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect Edward Leamington Nichols (1854 &ndash November 10, 1937) was an American Physicist. John Stanley Plaskett ( November 17 1865 &ndash October 17 1941) was a Canadian Astronomer. Karl Taylor Compton ( September 14, 1887 &ndash June 22, 1954) was a prominent American Physicist and president of Harlow Shapley ( November 2 1885 &ndash October 20 1972) was an American Astronomer. William Weber Coblentz ( November 20, 1873 &ndash September 15, 1962) was an American Physicist notable for his contributions Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin (Владимир Козьмич Зворыкин ( July 30, 1889 - July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (May 26 1882&ndashAugust 15 1960 was a British - American Physicist and photographic researcher. Edwin Herbert Land ( May 7 1909  &ndash March 1 1991) was an American Scientist and inventor. Ira Sprague Bowen ( December 21, 1898 &ndash February 6, 1973) was an American Astronomer. Herbert Eugene Ives ( July 21, 1882, Philadelphia Pennsylvania – November 13, 1953) was a scientist and engineer who headed the Willis Eugene Lamb Jr ( July 12, 1913 &ndash May 15, 2008) was a Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in Lars Onsager ( November 27, 1903 &ndash October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian – American physical chemist and James Franck ( August 26, 1882 &ndash May 21, 1964) was a German -born Physicist and Nobel laureate from Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ( Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர் English ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr( George Wald ( November 18, 1906 &ndash April 12, 1997) was an American Scientist who is best known for his work with pigments Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915) is an American Nobel Prize-winning Physicist and educator Hans Albrecht Bethe (/hans ˈalbʀɛçt ˈbeːtə/ ( July 2 1906 &ndash March 6, 2005) was a German - American Physicist William David McElroy (January 22 1917 - February 17 1999 was a noted American Biochemist. Robert Henry Dicke ( May 6 1916 &ndash March 4 1997) was an American Physicist, who made important contributions to the fields of Cornelis Bernardus van Niel ( November 4, 1897, Haarlem &ndash March 10, 1985, Carmel, California) was Maarten Schmidt (born December 28 1929) is a Dutch Astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called Quasars Edgar Bright Wilson Jr was born on December 18 1908 in Gallatin Tennessee, and died in 1992 Bruno Benedetto Rossi ( April 13 1905 &ndash November 21 1993) was a leading Italian - American experimental physicist Chen-Ning Franklin Yang ( (born October 1, 1922) is a Chinese -born American Physicist who worked on Statistical mechanics Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922 in Görlitz, Germany) is a German -born American Physicist, who Martin Deutsch ( 29 January 1917 &ndash 16 August 2002) was an Austrian American physicist who was emeritus professor Norman Foster Ramsey Jr (born August 27, 1915, in Washington DC) is an American Physicist. Robert B Leighton ( September 10, 1919 &ndash March 9, 1997) was an American Frank James Low (born Mobile Alabama, 23 November 1933) is a solid state Physicist who become a leader in the new field of Infrared Norris, Joseph J. Katz and George Feher
• 1996 : John C. Mather

External links

• Rumford Prize recipients

References and footnotes

George Feher (1924 is an American Biophysicist working at the University of California San Diego. John Cromwell Mather (b August 7, 1946, Roanoke, Virginia) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and

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