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John Theophilus Desaguliers has won the medal the most often, winning three times, in 1734, 1736 and 1741. In 1976, Dorothy Hodgkin became the first female recipient; Jocelyn Bell Burnell , in 2021, became the second.
- Outstanding research in any branch of science
- 1731; 292 years ago
- United Kingdom
- Royal Society
30. Nov. 2023 · Notable winners include Benjamin Franklin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin. The medal is of silver gilt, is awarded annually, alternating between the physical and biological sciences (odd and even years respectively), and is accompanied by a a gift of £25,000.
Copley Medal, the most prestigious scientific award in the United Kingdom, given annually by the Royal Society of London “for outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science.” The Copley Medal is named for Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1653–1709), a member of the Royal Society
YearRecipientAchievement*2022Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine TeamFor rapidly developing and deploying a ...2021For her work on the discovery of pulsars, ...2020Alan FershtFor developing and applying the methods ...2019For his exceptional contributions to the ...- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Die Medaille ist nach Godfrey Copley benannt, der ein reicher Grundbesitzer und selbst Mitglied der Royal Society war. Sie ist versilbert und mit einem Preisgeld von 25000 Pfund Sterling dotiert. Unter den ausgezeichneten Wissenschaftlern befinden sich Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein und Léon Foucault .
17. Mai 2016 · Joseph Priestley, awarded the Copley Medal in 1772, was a Unitarian minister, born in Yorkshire in 1733. He studied philosophy, science and languages at the Dissenting Academy at Daventry, but it was a meeting with the 1753 Copley Medallist, Benjamin Franklin, that piqued his passion for science.
24. Aug. 2021 · Trailblazing scientist and astrophysicist, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS, has been named as the 2021 winner of the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal.
16. Nov. 2011 · This article analyses the awarding of the Royal Society's Copley Medal to James Prescott Joule (1870), Julius Robert Mayer (1871) and Hermann Helmholtz (1873) in the wake of the establishment of the law of conservation of energy during the 1850s and 1860s.
