Copley Medal: Quick Facts

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Facts

Notable Honorees

Charles Darwin • Albert Einstein • Benjamin Franklin • Michael Faraday • Thomas Henry Huxley • Louis Pasteur • Hermann von Helmholtz • Alexander von Humboldt • Ernest Rutherford • Niels Bohr • William Thomson, Baron Kelvin • Max Planck • Jöns Jacob Berzelius • Justus, baron von Liebig • Charles Lyell • Joseph Priestley • Dmitri Mendeleev • Alfred Russel Wallace • William Herschel • Henry Cavendish • Rudolf Virchow • Claude Bernard • Carl Friedrich Gauss • Ivan Pavlov • Frederick Sanger • James Cook • Sir Humphry Davy • P.A.M. Dirac • Louis Agassiz • J.J. Thomson • Thomas Hunt Morgan • Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot • Joseph Lister • Stanislao Cannizzaro • Francis Galton • Friedrich Wöhler • Michel-Eugène Chevreul • Robert Burns Woodward • William Hyde Wollaston • Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet • James D. Dana • Dorothy Hodgkin • Karl Ernst von Baer • A.A. Michelson • Johannes Müller • Simon Newcomb • Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas • George Ellery Hale • James Bradley • August Kekule von Stradonitz • Lord Rayleigh • Sir Lawrence Bragg • Sir William Bragg • Arthur Cayley • James Watson • Robert Brown • J. Willard Gibbs • Richard Owen • Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher • Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls • John Gurdon • Tomas Lindahl • Sir Charles Frank • James Chadwick • Sir James Lighthill • Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker • Julius Plücker • Francis Crick • Siméon-Denis Poisson • Peter Higgs • Karl Weierstrass • Andrew Wiles • Sir Peter B. Medawar • James Joseph Sylvester • Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet • Stephen Hawking • Sir Arthur Evans • Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar • Sir George Biddell Airy • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz • Oswald Avery • François Arago • Alessandro Volta • G.H. Hardy • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington • Sir Hans Adolf Krebs • Sir Alan Cottrell • Michel Chasles • Sir Macfarlane Burnet • Élie Metchnikoff • Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier • Sir Michael Francis Atiyah • Jocelyn Bell Burnell • Edward Waring • Robert Bunsen • Sir Harold Jeffreys • John Hunter • Theodor Schwann • Max Ferdinand Perutz • Sir William Maddock Bayliss • Theobald Smith • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison • Eduard Suess • Sir Harold W. Kroto • Felix Klein • Roger Penrose • John B. Goodenough • Carl F.W. Ludwig • Sir John A. Pople • David Cox • Stephen Hales • John Goodricke • César Milstein • John Smeaton • Adam Sedgwick • Patrick Blackett • Georg Charles von Hevesy • Sydney Brenner • Sir Alan Hodgkin • Aaron Klug • Sir John Cornforth • C.T.R. Wilson • Charles-François Sturm • Sir Charles Algernon Parsons • A.V. Hill • Sir William Crookes • Sir Edwin Ray Lankester • Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd • Hugh Esmor Huxley • Paul Nurse • Martin Evans • Sir David Brewster • Sir William Hodge • Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley • Thomas Graham • Abdus Salam • John Frederic Daniell • Léon Foucault • Sir George Darwin • Jean André Deluc • Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet • Sir Nevill F. Mott • Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins • Sir Henry Dale • James Prescott Joule • Tadeus Reichstein • John Scott Haldane • August Wilhelm von Hofmann • William Prout • Rudolf Clausius • James Rennell • Wilhelm Eduard Weber • Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood • Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey • William Huggins • Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham • John Harrison • Rodney Robert Porter • Sir James Dewar • Sir Bernard Katz • Peter Andreas Hansen • John Couch Adams • Sir Edward Frankland • Nevil Maskelyne • William Buckland • Peter Barlow • Sir Horace Lamb • George William Hill • Rudolf Albert von Kölliker • Karl Gegenbaur • Richard Kirwan • Sir Robert Robinson • Edward Sabine • Hans Christian Ørsted • Émile Roux • Abraham Trembley • Sir Charles Wheatstone • Thomas Andrew Knight • Peter Dennis Mitchell • Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet • Sydney Chapman • Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet • Henri-Victor Regnault • Jean-Baptiste Boussingault • Charles-Adolphe Wurtz • Georg Ohm • John Dollond • Sir William Hamilton • John Canton • Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer • Franz Ernst Neumann • Edward Troughton • William Hewson • John Pond • Gowin Knight • Benjamin Robins • Sir Joseph Larmor • Charles Hatchett

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