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In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, gave $5000 separately to the Royal Society of London and the other by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to give awards every two years for outstanding scientific research on heat or light. 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... Benjamin Thompson. ... ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

The Royal Society awards the Rumford Medal; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awards the Rumford Prize. Not to be confused with the Rumford Medal In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, gave $5000 separately to the Royal Society of London and the other by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to give awards every two years for outstanding scientific research on heat or light. ...

The Rumford Medal is restricted to scientists working in Europe. It is awarded in even years in recognition of an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe, noting that Rumford was concerned to see recognised discoveries that tended to promote the good of mankind. The medal is of silver gilt and a gift of £1000 is associated with it.

Rumford Medalists

18th Century

19th Century

Sir John Randolph Leslie (September 24, 1885), third baronet, was an Irish diplomat and writer, took the name Shane. ... William Murdoch. ... Etienne-Louis Malus Etienne-Louis Malus (July 23, 1775 â€“ February 24, 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. ... William Charles Wells (1757 — 1817) was Wells was born Charlestown, where? and was sent to school in Dumfries and later attended the University of Edinburgh. ... Sir Humphry Davy. ... David Brewster Sir David Brewster, (December 11, 1781 – February 10, 1868) was a Scottish scientist. ... Augustin Fresnel Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced fray-NELL) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the wave theory of light and optics. ... John Frederic Daniell (March 12, 1790 - March 13, 1845) was an English chemist and physicist. ... Macedonio Melloni (April 11, 1798 – August 11, 1854) was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light. ... James David Forbes (April 20, 1809 - December 31, 1868) was a Scottish physicist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat, seismology and glaciology. ... Categories: People stubs | 1774 births | 1862 deaths | French physicists | French mathematicians | Members of the Acad mie fran aise ... William Henry Fox Talbot (February 11, 1800 - September 17, 1877) was one of the first photographers and made major contributions to the photographic process. ... Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 â€“ August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. ... Henri Victor Regnault (July 21, 1810 â€“ January 19, 1878) was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. ... FranÃ§ois Arago FranÃ§ois Jean Dominique Arago (February 26, 1786 â€“ October 2, 1853) was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician. ... George Gabriel Stokes Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819â€“1 February 1903) was an Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist. ... Neil Arnott (b. ... Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 â€“ September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist. ... Jules Jamin (31 May 1818 - 12 February 1886) was a French physicist. ... James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 â€“ 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. ... Gustav Kirchhoff Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (March 12, 1824 â€“ October 17, 1887), a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. ... This article is about the 19th century scientist. ... Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau Physicist Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (September 23, 1819-1896), French physicist, was born in Paris. ... Balfour Stewart (November 1, 1828 - December 19, 1887), Scottish physicist, was born in Edinburgh, and was educated at the university of that city. ... Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux (October 17, 1817 - May 6, 1897) was a French mineralogist. ... Anders Jonas Ã…ngstrÃ¶m Anders Jonas Ã…ngstrÃ¶m (August 13, 1814 â€“ June 21, 1874) was a physicist in Sweden, one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. ... Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer or Norman Lockyer (May 17, 1836 â€“ August 16, 1920) was an English scientist and astronomer. ... Jules Janssen took this photo of the French officers Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs La France dirigible from his Meudon (France) astrophysic observatory in 1885. ... Marie Alfred Cornu (March 6, 1841—April 12, 1902) was a French physicist. ... William Huggins Sir William Huggins, OM , FRS (February 7, 1824 â€“ May 12, 1910) was a British astronomer. ... William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843 - 1920) was an English astronomer and photographer. ... Samuel Pierpont Langley. ... Pietro Tacchini (March 21, 1838â€“March 24, 1905) was an Italian astronomer. ... Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was the German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. ... Nils Christoffer DunÃ©r (Billeberga, MalmÃ¶hus lÃ¤n May 21, 1839 â€“ Stockholm November 10, 1914) was a Swedish astronomer. ... Sir James Dewar (September 20, 1842 â€“ March 27, 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist. ... Wilhelm RÃ¶ntgen Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen (March 27, 1845 â€“ February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of WÃ¼rzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that are now known as x-rays or RÃ¶ntgen Rays. ... Vanity Fair cartoon. ... Henri Becquerel Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. ...

20th Century

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (June 13, 1854 â€“ February 11, 1931) was a Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 â€“ 19 October 1937), was a nuclear physicist from New Zealand. ... Hugh Longbourne Callendar FRS (18 April 1863 - 21 January 1930) was a British physicist. ... Painting of Hendrik Lorentz by Arnhemensis Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem â€“ February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist and the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electromagnetic radiation. ... Heinrich Rubens (30 March 1865 - 17 July 1922) was a German physicist. ... Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 – February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. ... See also Rayleigh fading Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh number Rayleigh waves Rayleigh-Jeans law External links Nobel website bio of Rayleigh About John William Strutt MacTutor biography of Lord Rayleigh Categories: People stubs | 1842 births | 1919 deaths | Nobel Prize in Physics winners | Peers | British physicists | Discoverer of a chemical element ... Sir William Henry Bragg OM, Cantab, OKW (Westward, Cumbria, England July 2, 1862 â€“ March 10, 1942) was an English physicist and chemist, educated at King Williams College, Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. ... Charles Fabry Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (June 11, 1867 / Marseille, France â€“ December 11, 1945 / Paris, France) was a French physicist. ... Alfred Perot Jean-Baptiste Alfred PÃ©rot (November 3, 1863 / Metz, France â€“ November 28, 1925 / Paris, France) was a French physicist. ... See also Rayleigh fading Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh number Rayleigh waves Rayleigh-Jeans law External links Nobel website bio of Rayleigh About John William Strutt MacTutor biography of Lord Rayleigh Categories: People stubs | 1842 births | 1919 deaths | Nobel Prize in Physics winners | Peers | British physicists | Discoverer of a chemical element ... Pieter Zeeman (May 25, 1865 â€“ October 9, 1943) (pronounced zÄmÃ¤n) was a physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. ... Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS (15 March 1855 - 30 March 1944) was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work. ... Arthur Schuster (September 12 1851 - October 17 1934 a versatile physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. ... Friedrich Paschen (January 22, 1865 - February 25, 1947), was a German 19th century physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. ... Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije (March 24, 1884 â€“ November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physical chemist. ... Fritz Haber in 1918. ... Wander Johannes de Haas (1878 â€“ 1960) was a Dutch physicist. ... Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 - August 11, 1955) was an American physicist. ... Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (December 3, 1886 - September 26, 1978) was a Swedish physicist, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. ... Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson FRS (25 February 1889 - 11 March 1976) was a British physicist and meteorologist who did important work on ozone. ... Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE FRS (1 June 1907â€“9 August 1996) was a Royal Air Force officer who invented the jet engine. ... Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 â€“ December 10, 1968) was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. ... Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (November 19, 1918 – July 31, 2000) was a Dutch astronomer. ... William Penneys wartime Los Alamos ID badge photograph. ... Dennis Gabor (GÃ¡bor DÃ©nes) (5th June, 1900, Budapest - 9th February, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist who is most notable for inventing holography. ... Christopher Hinton, First Baron Hinton of Bankside, (12 May 1901, Tisbury, Wiltshire — 22 June 1983, London) was a British nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the worlds first large_scale commercial nuclear power station. ... Basil John Mason FRS (1920?- ) is a former Director of the UK Meteorological Office, and an expert on the physics of clouds. ... Ilya Prigogine (January 25, 1917 â€“ May 28, 2003) was a Belgian physicist and chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. ... The Right Honourable George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (6 December 1920â€“31 August 2002) was an English chemist. ... Sir Denis Rooke, OM, CBE, FRS, FREng (born 2 April 1924) is a British industrialist and engineer. ...

21st Century

Professor Sir David King ScD FRS is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, and consequently head of the Office of Science and Technology. ...

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Categories: Royal Society | Science and engineering prizes | British awards | Science stubs | Award stubs The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ... The Copley Medal is a scientific award for work in any field of science, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. ... The Buchanan Medal is a medal of the Royal Society awarded for achievements in medicine. ... The Darwin Medal is given by the Royal Society on even years to a biologist or a husband and wife team of biologists. ... The Davy Medal is a bronze medal that has been awarded annually by the Royal Society in London since 1887. ... The Gabor Medal is a medal of the Royal Society, normally awarded for acknowledged distinction of work in biology, especially in genetic engineering and molecular biology. ... The Hughes Medal, named after microphone inventor David Edward Hughes, is one of several medals awarded by the Royal Society, Englands reigning academy of science. ... The Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society first awarded in 1960 to mark the tricentenary of the society at the instigation of the Leverhulme Trust. ... The Royal Medals of the Royal Society of London were established by King George IV. They were further supported with certain changes to their conditions, by King William IV and Queen Victoria. ... The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded every three years by the Royal Society for the encouragement of mathematical research. ...

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