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Vor einem Tag · The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science". [2] It alternates between the physical sciences or mathematics and the biological sciences. [3] Given annually, the medal is the oldest Royal Society medal awarded and the oldest surviving scientific ...
Vor 2 Tagen · He received the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1951 and its Copley Medal in 1957. By custom, the president of the Royal Society served for five years, and the position alternated between the mathematical and physical sciences, and the biological sciences, so Florey was eligible in 1960.
Vor einem Tag · Gauss received the Lalande Prize from the French Academy of Science in 1809 for the theory of planets and the means of determining their orbits from only three observations, the Danish Academy of Science prize in 1823 for "his study of angle-preserving maps", and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1838 for "his inventions and ...
Vor 5 Tagen · However, the pace of industrial and commercial progress directed his attention to large scale engineering works.’ in 1759 he published the paper Experimental inquiry concerning the powers of water and wind in the moving of Mills in which he developed concepts and data that would form the basis of the Smeaton coefficient, for which he received the Society’s Copley Medal.
Vor 5 Tagen · Medals, awards and prizes. The Society’s medals, awards and prize lectures recognise excellence in science and technology. Our most prestigious award, the Copley Medal, was first awarded in 1731.
Vor 3 Tagen · From 1803 the ship designers strove to find ever more economic ways of using timber, substituting smaller pieces, or iron wherever possible. These efforts were centrally directed, and the successful innovators were well rewarded, notably by financial grants and Royal Society Copley medals. This process culminated in the fundamental ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The society has at its disposal four medals, in the distribution of which it is able to mark its appreciation of scientific investigations and distinguished discoveries. The first award of the Copley medal was made in 1731, and of the Rumford medal in 1800 to the founder himself (Benjamin, Count Rumford) for his various discoveries ...
