Copley Medal

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medal scientific award

The Copley Medal is the Royal Society of London's oldest and most prestigious scientific award, given for outstanding achievements in any branch of science.

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Royal Society Copley Medal 2
Copley Medal (as a Royal Society prize hierarchy context) 1
Copley Medal endowment 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf medal ⓘ
scientific award ⓘ
awardedFor outstanding achievements in any branch of science ⓘ
awardingBodyFounded Royal Society ⓘ
awardingBodyFoundedIn 1660 ⓘ
awardingBodyType learned society ⓘ
awardingCity London, England ⓘ
surface form: London
category Royal Society awards ⓘ
country United Kingdom ⓘ
currencyOfMonetaryComponent Pound sterling ⓘ
surface form: pound sterling
describedAs Royal Society of London's most prestigious scientific award ⓘ
Royal Society of London's oldest scientific award ⓘ
earlierFrequency biennial ⓘ
irregular ⓘ
eligibility scientists worldwide ⓘ
field applied sciences ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ
natural sciences ⓘ
physical sciences ⓘ
science ⓘ
firstAwarded 1731 ⓘ
frequency annual ⓘ
hasComponent gold medal ⓘ
monetary prize ⓘ
hasWebsite https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/copley-medal/ ⓘ
inception 1731 ⓘ
isLargestAwardOf Royal Society ⓘ
languageOfAwardingBody English ⓘ
location London, England ⓘ
surface form: London
namedAfter Sir Godfrey Copley ⓘ
notableRecipient Albert Einstein ⓘ
Charles Darwin ⓘ
Dorothy Hodgkin ⓘ
Isaac Newton ⓘ
J. J. Thomson ⓘ
James Clerk Maxwell ⓘ
Lord Kelvin ⓘ
Max Planck ⓘ
Michael Faraday ⓘ
Niels Bohr ⓘ
Paul Dirac ⓘ
Roger Penrose ⓘ
Stephen Hawking ⓘ
olderThan Nobel Prize ⓘ
presentedBy Royal Society ⓘ
scope international ⓘ
sponsor Royal Society ⓘ

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Abdus Salam → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Alan Cottrell → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Albert A. Michelson → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Albert Einstein → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Alessandro Volta → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Alexandre Brongniart → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Andrew Wiles → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Augustin-Louis Cauchy → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Carl Friedrich Gauss → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Charles Darwin → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Charles Lyell → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Claude Bernard → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Derek H. R. Barton → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Dorothy Hodgkin → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Edward W. Morley → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Emil Fischer → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Ernest Rutherford → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Felix Klein → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Francis Crick → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
subject surface form: Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Gowland → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
subject surface form: Frederick Gowland Hopkins
G. H. Hardy → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
George Stokes → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
subject surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
George Howard Darwin → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Georges Cuvier → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Gerhard Herzberg → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
this entity surface form: Royal Society of London Copley Medal
Hendrik Lorentz → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Henri Poincaré → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Hermann von Helmholtz → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Horace Lamb → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
J. J. Thomson → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
James Chadwick → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
James Collip → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
this entity surface form: Copley Medal of the Royal Society of Canada
James Watson → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Jean Perrin → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
John Kendrew → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Joseph Larmor → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Julius Plücker → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Julius Plücker → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
this entity surface form: Royal Society Copley Medal
Karl Weierstrass → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Lawrence Bragg → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Lord Kelvin → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Lord Rayleigh → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Louis Agassiz → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Louis Pasteur → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ
Max Perutz → awardReceived → Copley Medal ⓘ