Copley Medal: Media
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The Royal Society's Copley Medal (obverse), bearing the likeness of the award's bequeather,...
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Stephen Hales, detail of an oil painting by the studio of T. Hudson, c. 1759; in...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Harrison, detail of an oil painting by Thomas King; in the Science Museum, London
Courtesy of the Science Museum, London, lent by W.H. Barton
Sir John Pringle, detail of an engraving by W.H. Mote after a portrait by Sir Joshua...
The Mansell Collection/Art Resource, New York
Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas by an anonymous artist after Jean-Baptiste Greuze,...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of Adele Lewisohn Lehman 1971.93.1
Joseph Priestley, portrait in chalk by Ellen Sharples, c. 1795; in the National Portrait...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Nevil Maskelyne, detail from an engraving by E. Scriven after a portrait by Vanderburgh.
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
James Cook, oil painting by John Webber; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir William Herschel, detail of an oil painting by L. Abbott, 1785; in the National...
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Portrait of 18th-century British surgeon John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by...
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Rennell, detail from a pencil sketch by G. Dance, 1794; in the National Portrait...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Volta is credited with inventing the electric battery (left) and the electrophorus....
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Astley Cooper, pencil drawing by Sir Francis Chantrey; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National...
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Sir Humphry Davy, detail of an oil painting after Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Henry, detail of an engraving by H. Cousins after a portrait by James Lonsdale.
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Edward Sabine, portrait by S. Pearce, 1851; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Herschel, detail of pencil drawing by H.W. Pickersgill; in the National Portrait...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Michael Faraday, oil on canvas by Thomas Phillips, 1841–42; in the National Portrait...
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Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a...
Courtesy of the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris; photograph, J. Colomb-Gerard, Paris
Jöns Jacob Berzelius, detail of an oil painting by Olof Johan Södermark, 1843; in...
Courtesy of Svenska Portrattarkivet, Stockholm
Justus von Liebig, photograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1868.
Courtesy of the Gesellschaft Liebig-Museum, Giessen, Germany
Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of...
Courtesy of the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris; photograph, J. Colomb-Gerard, Paris
Peter Andreas Hansen, detail from a lithograph by Rudolf Hoffmann, 1856
Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Alexander von Humboldt, oil painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806; in the National...
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Charles Lyell, detail of a replica in oil by Lowes Cato Dickinson, 1883; in the National...
Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Darwin, carbon-print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
Julia Margaret Cameron/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ds-16381)
Prussian-Estonian embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer.
News About the Life and Writings of the Privy Councilor Dr. Karl Ernst Baer/Wellcome Collection, London (CC BY 4.0)
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, oil painting by E. Hader, 1886.
Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858.
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888) formulated the second law of thermodynamics.
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Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection...
Courtesy of The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. hec 16238)
German pathologist and statesman Rudolf Virchow.
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Courtesy of the International Telecommunication Union, Geneva
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
H. Roger-Viollet
Alfred Russel Wallace, detail of a painting over a photograph; in the National Portrait...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Francis Galton, detail of an oil painting by G. Graef, 1882; in the National Portrait...
Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Darwin, portrait by M. Gertler, 1912; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
J.J. Thomson, c. 1920s.
From Practical Physics by Robert Andrews Millikan and Willard R. Pyle, 1922
National Library of Medicine Digital Collections, National Institutes of Health (101426180)
In 1905, Einstein's “miracle year,” he wrote papers about the photoelectric effect...
© The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm
Office of Medical History, Office of the Army Surgeon General/U.S. Army Medical Department
John Scott Haldane, drawing by Tom van Oss, 1930; in a private collection
Courtesy of Lady Mitchison; photograph, Gordon Hunter
Sir Arthur Evans, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Richmond, 1907; in the...
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Baron Alexander Robertus Todd was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957 for...
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Didier Vandenbosch—The Abel Prize/The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Stephen Hawking (left) receiving the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, 2006.
The Royal Society/NASA
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