Franklin Medal

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The Franklin Medal is a prestigious science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to honor outstanding achievements in scientific and technological research.

Aliases (9)
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics ×6
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science ×4
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry ×3
  • Franklin Institute Award ×2
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science ×1
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering ×1
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal series ×1
  • Benjamin Franklin Medals ×1
  • Franklin Medal and Award ×1

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf engineering award
research award
science award
awardedFor outstanding achievements in engineering
outstanding achievements in science
outstanding achievements in technological research
awardFrequency annual
country United States
field applied science
chemistry
computer and cognitive science
earth and environmental science
electrical engineering
engineering
life science
materials science
mechanical engineering
physics
formerName Franklin Medal and Award
inception 1914
location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
namedAfter Benjamin Franklin
notableRecipient Alan Turing
Albert Einstein
Claude Shannon
Edwin Hubble
Enrico Fermi
Erwin Schrödinger
Freeman Dyson
Hans Bethe
Hendrik Lorentz
Irving Langmuir
James Chadwick
John Bardeen
John Wheeler
John von Neumann
Linus Pauling
Marie Curie
Max Planck
Niels Bohr
Peter Debye
Robert A. Millikan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Walter Brattain
Werner Heisenberg
William Shockley
partOf Franklin Institute Awards Program
presentedBy Franklin Institute
sponsor Franklin Institute
website https://www.fi.edu/en/franklin-institute-awards

Referenced by (42)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alan Guth ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics")
C. N. Yang ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics")
Carl E. Wieman ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics")
Charles F. Kettering
Charles Francis Richter
Elias J. Corey ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry")
Elihu Thomson
Elizabeth Blackburn ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science")
Emilio Segrè
Enrico Fermi
Eric A. Cornell ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics")
Ernest O. Lawrence
Eugene Wigner
Frank B. Jewett
Frits Zernike
Gerard ’t Hooft
Hans Bethe
Harold Urey
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
James Chadwick
Jane Goodall ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science")
Joanne Chory ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science")
John Archibald Wheeler
John Bardeen
John W. Mauchly ("Franklin Institute Award")
Joseph Sweetman Ames
K. Barry Sharpless ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry")
Murray Gell-Mann
Niels Bohr
Paul Langevin
Phillip A. Sharp ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science")
Richard Courant
Shuji Nakamura ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering")
Steven Weinberg ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics")
Syukuro Manabe ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science")
Walther Nernst
Whitfield Diffie ("Franklin Institute Award")
awardReceived
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics")
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science ("Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry")
relatedAward
Franklin Medal ("Franklin Medal and Award")
formerName
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science ("Benjamin Franklin Medal series")
isPartOfSeries
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science ("Benjamin Franklin Medals")
partOf

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