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Benjamin Franklin Medal

HONOR

The name of several awards, given variously by:

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Roger Adams
Chemist
2-Jan-1889 6-Jul-1971 Organic chemist at Illinois
Leo Baekeland
Scientist
14-Nov-1863 23-Feb-1944 Father of plastics
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Scientist
26-Nov-1948   Co-Discoverer of telomerase
Charles F. Brush
Inventor
17-Mar-1849 15-Jun-1929 Street lights
James Chadwick
Physicist
20-Oct-1891 24-Jul-1974 Discovered the neutron
Arthur H. Compton
Physicist
10-Sep-1892 15-Mar-1962 Discovered the Compton Effect
William D. Coolidge
Physicist
23-Oct-1873 4-Feb-1975 Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes
Elias James Corey
Chemist
12-Jul-1928   Retrosynthetic analysis
Raymond Davis, Jr.
Scientist
14-Oct-1914 31-May-2006 Detected solar neutrinos
Peter Debye
Physicist
24-Mar-1884 2-Nov-1966 Studied molecular structure, dipoles
T. G. Dobzhansky
Scientist
25-Jan-1900 18-Dec-1975 Genetics and the Origin of Species
William F. Durand
Engineer
5-Mar-1859 9-Aug-1958 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Albert Einstein
Physicist
14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity
John Ambrose Fleming
Engineer
29-Nov-1849 19-Apr-1945 Invented the vacuum tube
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
15-Sep-1929   Quarks and strangeness
Robert H. Grubbs
Chemist
27-Feb-1942   Metathesis
Alan Guth
Physicist
27-Feb-1947   Inflationary theory of cosmology
Edwin Hubble
Astronomer
20-Nov-1889 28-Sep-1953 Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law
Pyotr Kapitsa
Physicist
8-Jul-1894 8-Apr-1984 Discovered superfluidity
Wolfgang Ketterle
Physicist
21-Oct-1957   Bose-Einstein condensates
Donald E. Knuth
Computer Programmer
10-Jan-1938   The Art of Computer Programming
Masatoshi Koshiba
Physicist
19-Sep-1926   Detected cosmic neutrinos
Irving Langmuir
Chemist
31-Jan-1881 16-Aug-1957 Inventor of the high-vacuum tube
Robert B. Laughlin
Physicist
1-Nov-1950   Fractional quantum Hall effect
Philipp Lenard
Physicist
7-Jun-1862 20-May-1947 Investigations of cathode rays
Benoit Mandelbrot
Mathematician
20-Nov-1924 14-Oct-2010 Fractal mathematician
Guglielmo Marconi
Scientist
25-Apr-1874 20-Jul-1937 Inventor of radio
Barry J. Marshall
Doctor
30-Sep-1951   H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers
John C. Mather
Physicist
7-Aug-1946   Big Bang
Ernst Mayr
Biologist
5-Jul-1904 3-Feb-2005 Evolutionary biologist
Albert A. Michelson
Physicist
19-Dec-1852 9-May-1931 Measured the speed of light
Marvin Minsky
Scientist
9-Aug-1927   Father of Artificial Intelligence
Yoichiro Nambu
Physicist
18-Jan-1921   Spontaneous broken symmetry
Walther Nernst
Chemist
25-Jun-1864 18-Nov-1941 Third Law of Thermodynamics
Frederick Reines
Physicist
16-Mar-1918 26-Aug-1998 Co-Discover of the neutrino
Theodore W. Richards
Chemist
31-Jan-1868 2-Apr-1928 Atomic weights
Frederick C. Robbins
Scientist
25-Aug-1916 4-Aug-2003 Cultured the polio virus
Henry Norris Russell
Astronomer
25-Oct-1877 18-Feb-1957 Giant stars and dwarfs
Paul Sabatier
Chemist
5-Nov-1854 14-Aug-1941 Heterogeneous catalysis
Marjorie Scardino
Business
25-Jan-1947   CEO of Pearson
Glenn Seaborg
Physicist
19-Apr-1912 25-Feb-1999 Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Harlow Shapley
Astronomer
2-Nov-1885 20-Oct-1972 Organizer of Heaven
Phillip A. Sharp
Biologist
6-Jun-1944   Eukaryotic (split) genes
K. Barry Sharpless
Chemist
28-Apr-1941   Chiral catalysts
Richard E. Smalley
Chemist
6-Jun-1943 28-Oct-2005 Co-Discovered fullerines
Frank J. Sprague
Inventor
25-Jul-1857 25-Oct-1934 Streetcars and express elevators
Wendell M. Stanley
Chemist
16-Aug-1904 15-Jun-1971 First to crystallize a virus
The Svedberg
Chemist
30-Aug-1884 25-Feb-1971 Inventor of the ultracentrifuge
Elihu Thomson
Inventor
29-Mar-1853 13-Mar-1937 Electric welding and A/C motors
J. J. Thomson
Physicist
18-Dec-1856 30-Aug-1940 Discovered the electron
Daniel C. Tsui
Physicist
28-Feb-1939   Fractional quantum Hall effect
Harold C. Urey
Chemist
29-Apr-1893 5-Jan-1981 Discovered Deuterium
Edward O. Wilson
Biologist
10-Jun-1929   Father of Sociobiology
Kenneth G. Wilson
Physicist
8-Jun-1936   Second-order phase transitions
Pieter Zeeman
Physicist
25-May-1865 9-Oct-1943 Discovered Zeeman Effect
Ahmed H. Zewail
Chemist
26-Feb-1946   Femtochemistry


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