Rumford Medal
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The Rumford Medal is a prestigious scientific award given by the Royal Society for outstanding research in the fields of thermal or optical properties of matter.
Aliases (3)
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Society medal
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scientific award → |
| awardedBy | Royal Society → |
| awardedFor |
outstanding contributions to the understanding of heat
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outstanding contributions to the understanding of light → research in optics → research in photonics → research in thermal radiation → research in thermodynamics → |
| country | United Kingdom → |
| establishedBy | bequest of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford → |
| field |
optical properties of matter
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physics → thermal properties of matter → |
| firstAwarded | 1796 → |
| formerFrequency |
annual
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irregular → |
| frequency | biennial → |
| hasType |
physics award
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scientific medal → |
| inception | 1796 → |
| isPartOf |
Royal Society medals
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surface form: "Royal Society awards and medals"
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| languageOfName | English → |
| location |
London, England
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surface form: "London"
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| material | silver → |
| monetaryAward | medal only (no current cash prize) → |
| namedAfter |
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
→
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford →
surface form: "Count Rumford"
|
| notableRecipient |
Andre Geim
→
C. V. Raman → Charles K. Kao → Gustav Kirchhoff → Heike Kamerlingh Onnes → Josiah Willard Gibbs →
surface form: "J. Willard Gibbs"
James Clerk Maxwell → John Bardeen → John Tyndall → Kostya Novoselov → Lord Rayleigh → Ludwig Boltzmann → Michael Faraday → Peter Kapitza →
surface form: "Pyotr Kapitsa"
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar → |
| purpose | to recognize outstanding research on the thermal or optical properties of matter → |
| significance |
one of the earliest awards devoted to thermal and optical research
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one of the oldest awards of the Royal Society → |
| sponsor | Royal Society → |
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Rumford Prize"
this entity surface form: "Rumford Prize"
this entity surface form: "Rumford Medal of the Royal Society"
this entity surface form: "Rumford Medal and Lecture"