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Which award did William Herschel receive for discovering Uranus?
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William Herschel
Sir William Herschel, detail of an oil painting by L. Abbott, 1785; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
For his discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781, the Royal Society of London awarded William Herschel the Copley Medal.1