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    The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science". It alternates...
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    Stephen Hawking (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    100 Greatest Britons. He was awarded the Copley Medal from the Royal Society (2006), the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is America's highest civilian...
    185 KB (17,999 words) - 23:30, 11 July 2024
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    Andrew Wiles (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the...
    31 KB (2,868 words) - 18:46, 23 June 2024
  • Copley may refer to: Copley (surname) Copley, South Australia Copley, County Durham Copley, Greater Manchester, formerly in Cheshire Copley Academy, a...
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    Peter Higgs (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Physics; a unique Higgs Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012; and the Royal Society awarded him the 2015 Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific...
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    Charles Darwin (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    brought Darwin Britain's highest scientific honour, the Royal Society's Copley Medal, awarded on 3 November 1864. That day, Huxley held the first meeting...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    recognition of his work with electricity, he received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1753, and in 1756, he became one of the few 18th-century Americans...
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    Council of the Royal Society "were moved to reward its discoverer with the Copley Medal" at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on 30 November 1773...
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    Carl Friedrich Gauss (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Science prize in 1823 for his memoir on conformal projection, and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1838 for "his inventions and mathematical researches...
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    John Edensor Littlewood (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958. He was president of the London Mathematical...
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    August Wilhelm von Hofmann (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    in the field of chemistry, including the Royal Medal (1854), the Copley Medal (1875) and the Albert Medal (1881). He was elected as a member of the American...
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    John B. Goodenough (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    University of Oxford. Goodenough was awarded the National Medal of Science, the Copley Medal, the Fermi Award, the Draper Prize, and the Japan Prize. The...
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    became the second female recipient (after Dorothy Hodgkin in 1976) of the Copley Medal. Bell Burnell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, to...
    59 KB (5,009 words) - 00:40, 30 June 2024
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    Niels Bohr (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Prize, he received the Hughes Medal in 1921, the Matteucci Medal in 1923, the Franklin Medal in 1926, the Copley Medal in 1938, the Order of the Elephant...
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    Georg Ohm (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    was eventually recognized by the Royal Society with its award of the Copley Medal in 1841. He became a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1842, and...
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    Alec Jeffreys (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Yorkshire Police and the wider Yorkshire and the Humber region. 2014 – Copley Medal 22 January 2014 – Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from De Montfort...
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    Ivan Pavlov (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    National Academy of Sciences in 1908, was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1915, and elected an International Member of the American Philosophical...
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    James Watson (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences (2001) Copley Medal of the Royal Society, 1993 CSHL Double Helix Medal Honoree, 2008...
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    Michael Faraday (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    include: The IET Faraday Medal The Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize The Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal and Prize The Royal Society...
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    James Cook (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Admiralty; he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded the Copley Gold Medal for completing his second voyage without losing a man to scurvy. Nathaniel...
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