Elliott Cresson Medal
The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established by Elliott Cresson, life member of the Franklin Institute, with $1,000 granted in 1848.
Elliott Cresson Medal People (First 49 people) - Page 1
Henry Roscoe
Chemist
The Franklin Institute
James Lighthill
British mathematician
Marlan Scully
American physicist
Walter Zinn
American physicist
Isidor
Musical artist
Alfred Y. Cho
American electrical engineer
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Inventor
Donald Van Slyke
American biochemist
Grote Reber
American amateur astronomer
Edgar Bright Wilson
American chemist
Herman Francis Mark
American-Austrian chemist
Paul Flory
American chemist
Frank Stillinger
American chemist
Gladeon M. Barnes
Henry Eyring
Chemist
Joseph Thomson
Scottish geologist
Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva (Juan de la Cierva)
Spanish civil engineer
Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva
Spanish civil engineer
Marie Currie
American singer
Hugh Latimer
Former Bishop of Worcester
Pierre Mari
French writer
Alexander Graham
Australian swimmer
Robert Watson-Watt
British developer
Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov
Russian historian
James Gilbert Baker
American astronomer
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor
Peter Cooper Hewitt
American electrical engineer
Frederick Winslow Taylor
American mechanical engineer
Charles Francis Jenkins
American inventor
Emile Berliner
German-American inventor
Edwin H. Colpitts
Researcher
Theodore Lyman IV
American physicist
Roger Adams
American organic chemist
Lewis Ferry Moody
American engineer
Tolbert Lanston
Harvey Washington Wiley
American chemist
John Brashear
American astronomer
Carl Auer von Welsbach
Austrian inventor
George Ashley Campbell
American engineer
John Fritz
American biographer
Bill Lear
American inventor
Wilbur Olin Atwater
American chemist
Lester Allan Pelton
American inventor
John B. Whitehead
American researcher
William Le Roy Emmet
Electrical engineer
Elisha Gray
American engineer