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30. Nov. 2023 · The medal is awarded for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science. First awarded in 1731 following donations from Godfrey Copley FRS (PDF), it was initially awarded for the most important scientific discovery or for the greatest contribution made by experiment.
C~ HARLES DARWIN was awarded the Copley Medal by the council of the Royal Society in November 1864, almost exactly five years after The Origin of Species was published, but the award was not made for the Origin. How this came to be is an interesting story of forays and maneuvers in Britain's most prestigious learned society.
68588-0327, USA. 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.
Copley Medal, c.1736-1760. Dr Rebekah Higgitt, Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent, UK. Abstract. It has become a commonplace that exceptional achievement, including within science, should. be rewarded with prizes and that these will often take the form of a medal. The ubiquity of.
THE COPLEY MEDAL: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A REWARD SYSTEM IN THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1731-1839 by. M. YAKUP BEKTAS AND MAURICE CROSLAND . Jnit forthe History of Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR. The Copley Medal represents one of the oldest surviving honorary reward systems not only in the Royal Society but also in European science.
Die Copley-Medaille (engl. Copley Medal) ist eine von der britischen Royal Society verliehene Auszeichnung für Wissenschaftler aller Fachrichtungen. Sie ist die älteste und höchstdotierte der von der Royal Society regelmäßig vergebenen Auszeichnungen.
The medal is made of silver-gilt and awarded with a £25,000 prize. The Copley Medal is arguably the highest British and Commonwealth award for scientific achievement, and has been included among the most distinguished international scientific awards.
