The Matteucci Medal was established to award physicists for their fundamental contributions. Under an Italian Royal Decree dated July 10, 1870, the Italian Society of Sciences was authorized to receive a donation from Carlo Matteucci for the establishment of the Prize. Carlo Matteucci (b. ...

The winners are:

• 1868 Hermann Helmholtz, Berlin

• 1875 Henri Victor Regnault, Paris

• 1876 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Glasgow

• 1877 Gustav Kirchhoff, Berlin

• 1878 Gustav Weidemann, Leipzig

• 1879 Wilhelm Weber, Göttingen

• 1880 Antonio Pacinotti, Pisa

• 1881 Emilio Villari, Bologna

• 1882 Augusto Righi, Padova

• 1887 Thomas Edison, Milan and Ohio

• 1888 Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, Karlsruhe

• 1894 John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, London

• 1895 Henry Augustus Rowland, Baltimore

• 1896 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Würzburg, and Philipp Lenard, Heidel

• 1901 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna

• 1903 Albert Abraham Michelson, Chicago

• 1904 Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, Paris

• 1905 Henri Poincaré, Paris

• 1906 James Dewar, London

• 1907 William Ramsay, London

• 1908 Antonio Garbasso, Genova

• 1909 Orso Mario Corbino, Messina

• 1910 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Leiden

• 1911 Jean Perrin, Paris

• 1912 Pieter Zeeman, Amsterdam

• 1913 Ernest Rutherford, Manchester

• 1914 Max von Laue, Zürich

• 1915 Johannes Stark, Aacken

• 1915 William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, London

• 1917 Antonino Lo Surdo, Florence

• 1918 Robert W. Wood, Baltimore

• 1919 Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley, Oxford

• 1921 Albert Einstein, Bern

• 1923 Niels Bohr, Köbenhavn

• 1924 Arnold Sommerfeld, Munich

• 1925 Robert Andrews Millikan, Chicago

• 1926 Enrico Fermi, Roma

• 1927 Erwin Schrödinger, Clontarf, Dublin

• 1928 Venkata Raman Chandrasekhara, Calcutta

• 1929 Werner Heisenberg, Leipzig

• 1930 Arthur Compton, Chicago

• 1931 Franco Rasetti, Rome

• 1932 Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie, Paris

• 1956 Wolfgang Pauli, Zürich

• 1975 Bruno Touschek, Rome

• 1978 Abdus Salam, Trieste and London

• 1979 Luciano Maiani, Rome

• 1980 Giancarlo Wick, Pisa

• 1982 Rudolf Peierls, Oxford

• 1985 Hendrik B. G. Casimir, Heeze

• 1987 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, Paris

• 1988 Lev. B. Okun, Mosca

• 1989 Freeman Dyson, Princeton

• 1990 Jack Steinberger, Geneva

• 1991 Bruno Rossi, Cambridge

• 1992 Anatole Abragam, Paris

• 1993 John Archibald Wheeler, Heightstown, NJ, USA

• 1994 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Paris

• 1995 Tsung Dao Lee, New York

• 1996 Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, Stanford

• 1998 Oreste Piccioni, San Diego, CA

• 2001 Theodor W. Hänsch, Munich

• 2002 Nicola Cabibbo, Rome

• 2003 Manuel Cardona, Barcelona

• 2004 David Ruelle, Bures sur Yvette, France

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 – September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. ... Henri Victor Regnault (July 21, 1810 – January 19, 1878) was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. ... William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century. ... Gustav Robert Kirchhof (March 12, 1824 – October 17, 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. ... Wilhelm Eduard Weber (October 24, 1804 - June 23, 1891) was a noted physicist. ... Antonio Pacinotti (Pisa, June 7, 1841 - Pisa, May 22, 1912) was a Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa. ... Augusto Righi (August 27, 1850-June 8, 1920) was an Italian physicist and pioneer of the study of electromagnetism. ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. ... Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894), was the German physicist for whom the hertz, the SI unit of frequency, is named. ... John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who (with William Ramsay) discovered the element argon, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. ... Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901) was a U.S. physicist. ... Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (in English: William Conrad Roentgen) (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen Rays, an achievement... Philipp Eduard Anton von Lénárd, (June 7, 1862 in Preßburg, Austria-Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia)–May 20, 1947 in Messelhausen, Germany) was a Hungarian-German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of... Guglielmo Marconi, Marchese, GCVO (25 April 1874-20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. ... His signature. ... Madame Curie redirects here. ... // Pierre Curie (Paris, France, May 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906, Paris) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. ... Jules TuPac Henri Poincaré (April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912) (IPA: [][1]) was one of Frances greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. ... For other persons named James Dewar, see James Dewar (disambiguation). ... Sir William Ramsay (October 2, 1852 – July 23, 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon). ... Orso Mario Corbino (30 April 1876, Augusta – 23 January 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and politician. ... Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 – February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. ... Jean Baptiste Perrin, generally known as Jean Perrin (Lille, September 30, 1870 – April 17, New York, 1942), was a French physicist. ... Pieter Zeeman (May 25, 1865 – October 9, 1943) (pronounced zāmän) was a physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. ... Max von Laue (October 9, 1879 - April 24, 1960) was a German physicist, who studied under Max Planck. ... Johannes Stark (April 15, 1874 – June 21, 1957) was a prominent 20th century physicist, and a Physics Nobel Prize laureate. ... Sir William Henry Bragg OM, Cantab, OKW (Westward, Cumbria, England July 2, 1862 – March 10, 1942) was an English physicist and chemist, educated at King Williams College, Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. ... Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father Sir William Henry Bragg. ... Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 - August 11, 1955) was a physicist. ... Henry Moseley Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (November 23, 1887-August 10, 1915) was an English physicist. ... “Einstein” redirects here. ... Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. ... Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 in Königsberg, East Prussia – April 26, 1951 in Munich, Germany) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. ... Professor Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. ... Bust of Schrödinger, in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria. ... Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. ... Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1927) for discovery of the Compton effect named in his honor. ... Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian scientist. ... Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie né Joliot (March 19, 1900 – August 14, 1958) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie, (12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. ... This article is about Austrian-Swiss physicist Wolfgang Pauli. ... Photograph of Bruno Touschek. ... Abdus Salam at Nobel Prize ceremony with the King of Sweden Dr. Abdus Salam (Urdu: عبد السلام) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab – 21 November 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which... Luciano Maiani is an Italian physicist best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Glashow and Iliopoulos. ... Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5, 1907, Berlin – September 19, 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. ... Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (July 15, 1909 – May 4, 2000) was a Dutch physicist. ... Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris – May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991. ... Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is a British-born American physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. ... Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ... Bruno B. Rossi (April 13, 1905 – November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. ... Anatole Abragam (born December 15, 1914) is a French physicist who wrote Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. ... John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. ... Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ... U.S. government photo Tsung-Dao Lee (李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese American physicist who did work on high energy particle physics, symmetry principles, and statistical mechanics. ... Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, a German-American physicist, was born the son of art historian, Erwin Panofsky. ... Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (b. ... Nicola Cabibbo is an Italian physicist, best known for work on the weak nuclear interaction. ... (Born August 20, 1935) Belgian-French physicist. ...

External link

Matteucci Medal, at the Italian National Academy of Sciences