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Copley Medal

HONOR

Highest award of the Royal Society, for contributions to science.

1731
Stephen Gray  
1732
Stephen Gray  
1734
John Theophilus Desaguliers  
1736
John Theophilus Desaguliers  
1737
John Belchier  
1738
James Valoue  
1739
Stephen Hales  
1740
Alexander Stuart  
1741
John Theophilus Desaguliers  
1742
Christopher Middleton  
1743
Abraham Trembley  
1744
Henry Baker  
1745
William Watson  
1746
Benjamin Robins  
1747
Gowin Knight  
1748
James Bradley  
1749
John Harrison  
1750
George Edwards  
1751
John Canton  
1752
John Pringle  
1753
Benjamin Franklin  
1754
William Lewis  
1755
John Huxham  
1756
(no award)  
1757
Charles Cavendish  
1758
John Dollond  
1759
John Smeaton  
1760
Benjamin Wilson  
1761
(no award)  
1762
(no award)  
1763
(no award)  
1764
John Canton  
1765
(no award)  
1766
William Brownrigg; Edward Delaval; Henry Cavendish  
1767
John Ellis  
1768
Peter Woulfe  
1769
William Hewson  
1770
William Hamilton  
1771
Matthew Raper  
1772
Joseph Priestley  
1773
John Walsh  
1774
(no award)  
1775
Nevil Maskelyne  
1776
James Cook  
1777
John Mudge  
1778
Charles Hutton  
1779
(no award)  
1780
Samuel Vince  
1781
William Herschel  
1782
Richard Kirwan  
1783
John Goodricke; Thomas Hutchins  
1784
Edward Waring  
1785
William Roy  
1786
(no award)  
1787
John Hunter  
1788
Charles Blagden  
1789
William Morgan  
1790
(no award)  
1791
James Rennell; Jean-André Deluc (John Andrew de Luc)  
1792
Benjamin Count Rumford  
1793
(no award)  
1794
Alessandro Volta  
1795
Jesse Ramsden  
1796
George Atwood  
1797
(no award)  
1798
George Shuckburgh; Evelyn Charles Hatchett  
1799
John Hellins  
1800
Edward Howard  
1801
Astley Paston Cooper  
1802
William Hyde Wollaston  
1803
Richard Chenevix  
1804
Smithson Tennant  
1805
Humphry Davy  
1806
Thomas Andrew Knight  
1807
Everard Home  
1808
William Henry  
1809
Edward Troughton  
1810
(no award)  
1811
Benjamin Collins Brodie  
1812
(no award)  
1813
William Thomas Brande  
1814
Sir James Ivory  
1815
David Brewster  
1816
(no award)  
1817
Henry Kater  
1818
Robert Seppings  
1819
(no award)  
1820
Hans Christian Oersted  
1821
Edward Sabine; John Herschel  
1822
William Buckland  
1823
John Pond  
1824
John Brinkley  
1825
François Arago; Peter Barlow  
1826
James South  
1827
William Prout; Henry Foster  
1828
(no award)  
1829
(no award)  
1830
(no award)  
1831
George Biddell Airy  
1832
Michael Faraday; Siméon-Denis Poisson  
1833
(no award)  
1834
Giovanni Plana  
1835
William Snow Harris  
1836
Jöns Jacob Berzelius; Francis Kiernan  
1837
Antoine C. Becquerel; John Frederic Daniell  
1838
Carl Friedrich Gauss; Michael Faraday  
1839
Robert Brown  
1840
Justus Liebig; Charles François Sturm  
1841
Georg Simon Ohm  
1842
James MacCullagh  
1843
Jean Baptiste Dumas  
1844
Carlo Matteucci  
1845
Theodor Schwann  
1846
Urbain Le Verrier  
1847
John Frederick; John Herschel  
1848
John Couch Adams  
1849
Roderick Murchison  
1850
Peter Andreas Hansen  
1851
Richard Owen  
1852
Alexander von Humboldt  
1853
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove  
1854
Johannes Peter Müller  
1855
Léon Foucault  
1856
Henry Milne-Edwards  
1857
Michel-Eugène Chevreul  
1858
Charles Lyell  
1859
Wilhelm Weber  
1860
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen  
1861
Louis Agassiz  
1862
Thomas Graham  
1863
Adam Sedgwick  
1864
Charles Darwin  
1865
Michel Chasles  
1866
Julius Plücker  
1867
Karl Ernst von Baer  
1868
Charles Wheatstone  
1869
Henri-Victor Regnault  
1870
James Prescott Joule  
1871
Julius Robert Mayer  
1872
Friedrich Wöhler  
1873
Hermann von Helmholtz  
1874
Louis Pasteur  
1875
August Wilhelm Hofmann  
1876
Claude Bernard  
1877
James Dwight Dana  
1878
Jean Baptiste Boussingault  
1879
Rudolf Clausius  
1880
James Joseph Sylvester  
1881
Karl Adolph Wurtz  
1882
Arthur Cayley  
1883
Lord Kelvin  
1884
Carl Ludwig  
1885
Friedrich August Kekulé  
1886
Franz Ernst Neumann  
1887
Joseph Dalton Hooker  
1888
Thomas Henry Huxley  
1889
George Salmon  
1890
Simon Newcomb  
1891
Stanislao Cannizzaro  
1892
Rudolf Virchow  
1893
George Gabriel Stokes  
1894
Edward Frankland  
1895
Karl Weierstrass  
1896
Karl Gegenbaur  
1897
Albert von Kolliker  
1898
William Huggins  
1899
Lord Rayleigh  
1900
Marcellin Berthelot  
1901
Willard Gibbs  
1902
Joseph Lister  
1903
Eduard Suess  
1904
Sir William Crookes  
1905
Dmitri Mendeleev  
1906
Ilya Mechnikov  
1907
Albert A. Michelson  
1908
Alfred Russel Wallace  
1909
George W. Hill  
1910
Francis Galton  
1911
George Darwin  
1912
Felix Klein  
1913
Ray Lankester  
1914
J. J. Thomson  
1915
Ivan Pavlov  
1916
James Dewar  
1917
Emil Roux  
1918
Hendrik Lorentz  
1919
William Bayliss  
1920
Horace Brown  
1921
Joseph Larmor  
1922
Ernest Rutherford  
1923
Horace Lamb  
1924
E. Sharpey-Schafer  
1925
Albert Einstein  
1926
Frederick Hopkins  
1927
Charles Sherrington  
1928
Charles Parsons  
1929
Max Planck  
1930
William Bragg  
1931
Arthur Schuster  
1932
George Ellery Hale  
1933
Theobald Smith  
1934
John Scott Haldane  
1935
C. T. R. Wilson  
1936
Arthur Evans  
1937
Henry Dale  
1938
Niels Bohr  
1939
Thomas H. Morgan  
1940
Paul Langevin  
1941
Thomas Lewis  
1942
Sir Robert Robinson  
1943
Joseph Barcroft  
1944
Geoffrey Taylor  
1945
Oswald Avery  
1946
Edgar Adrian  
1947
G. H. Hardy  
1948
Archibald V. Hill  
1949
George de Hevesy  
1950
James Chadwick  
1951
David Keilin  
1952
Paul Dirac  
1953
Albert Kluyver  
1954
Edmund Whittaker  
1955
Ronald Fisher  
1956
Patrick M. S. Blackett  
1957
Howard Florey  
1958
John Edensor Littlewood  
1959
Macfarlane Burnet  
1960
Harold Jeffreys  
1961
Hans Krebs  
1962
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood  
1963
Paul Fildes  
1964
Sydney Chapman  
1965
Alan Hodgkin  
1966
Lawrence Bragg  
1967
Bernard Katz  
1968
Tadeus Reichstein  
1969
Peter Medawar  
1970
Alexander R. Todd  
1971
Norman Pirie  
1972
Nevill F. Mott  
1973
Andrew Huxley  
1974
W. V. D. Hodge  
1975
Francis Crick  
1976
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin  
1977
Frederick Sanger  
1978
Robert B. Woodward  
1979
Max F. Perutz  
1980
Derek Barton  
1981
Peter Mitchell  
1982
John Cornforth  
1983
Rodney Porter  
1984
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  
1985
Aaron Klug  
1986
Rudolf Peierls  
1987
Robert Hill  
1988
Michael Atiyah  
1989
Cesar Milstein  
1990
Abdus Salam  
1991
Sydney Brenner  
1992
George Porter  
1993
James Watson  
1994
Charles Frank  
1995
Frank Fenner  
1996
Alan Cottrell  
1997
Hugh Huxley  
1998
James Lighthill  
1999
John Maynard Smith  
2000
Alan Battersby  
2001
Jacques Miller  
2002
John A. Pople  
2003
John Gurdon  
2004
Sir Harold Kroto  
2005
Paul Nurse  
2006
Stephen Hawking  
2007
Robert May  
2008
Roger Penrose  
2009
Martin Evans  
2010
David Cox  
2011
Dan McKenzie  



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