Copley Medal

Copley Medal

The Copley Medal is an award given by the Royal Society, for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science. " It alternates between the physical and the biological sciences.

Copley Medal People (First 49 people) - Page 0

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

French chemist

Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel

French engineer

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Theoretical physicist

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist

Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Naturalist

Dan McKenzie

Dan McKenzie

Professor

Stephen Hopkins

Stephen Hopkins

British musician

John Herschel

John Herschel

Polymath

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

Scientist

Patrick Blackett

Patrick Blackett

British physicist

Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner

South African biologist

James Watson

James Watson

American molecular biologist

Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger

Biochemist

Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse

Geneticist

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin

British chemist

James Chadwick

James Chadwick

British physicist

J. J. Thomson

J. J. Thomson

British physicist

Max Planck

Max Planck

German theoretical physicist

Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist

Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

Theoretical physicist

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

Naturalist

Richard Owen

Richard Owen

Rugby league

Paul Langevin

Paul Langevin

French physicist

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

English biologist

Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose

British mathematician

Hans Adolf Krebs

Hans Adolf Krebs

British-German physician

Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Clausius

German physicist

William Buckland

William Buckland

Theologian

Howard Florey

Howard Florey

Australian pharmacologist

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan

American biologist

Charles Wheatstone

Charles Wheatstone

Scientist

William Crookes

William Crookes

British chemist

Max Perutz

Max Perutz

Austrian-British molecular biologist

Lawrence Bragg

Lawrence Bragg

Australian-British physicist

William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg

Physicist

Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz

Dutch physicist

Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell

Geologist

Harold Jeffreys

Harold Jeffreys

British geophysicist

Arthur Cayley

Arthur Cayley

British mathematician

John Thomson

John Thomson

Comedian

Andrew Huxley

Andrew Huxley

Biophysicist

Francis Galton

Francis Galton

English polymath

Martin Evans

Martin Evans

Biologist

John E. Walker

John E. Walker

British chemist

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

Russian-Soviet experimenter

Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar

British biologist

John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith

British mathematician

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