Copley Medal

The Copley Medal is a scientific award for work in any field of science, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. The medal was first awarded in 1736.

Past laureates include:

1753 Benjamin Franklin
1759 John Smeaton
1775 Nevil Maskelyne
1781 William Herschel
1784 Edward Waring
1787 John Hunter
1791 Alessandro Volta
1815 David Brewster
1825 François Arago
1831 George Biddell Airy
1832 Simeon Poisson
1838 Carl Friedrich Gauss
1839 Robert Brown
1841 Georg Ohm
1846 Urbain Le Verrier
1847 John Herschel
1848 John Couch Adams
1850 Peter Andreas Hansen
1855 Léon Foucault
1859 Wilhelm Weber
1857 Michel-Eugene Chevreul
1863 Adam Sedgwick
1864 Charles Darwin
1866 Julius Plücker
1867 Karl Ernst von Baer
1873 Hermann Helmholtz
1879 Rudolf Clausius
1882 Arthur Cayley
1883 William Thomson
1887 Joseph Dalton Hooker
1892 Rudolf Virchow
1893 George Gabriel Stokes
1899 Lord Rayleigh
1901 Willard Gibbs
1904 William Crookes
1905 Dmitri Mendeleev
1910 Francis Galton
1912 Felix Klein
1918 Hendrik Lorentz
1925 Albert Einstein
1929 Max Planck
1938 Niels Bohr
1952 Paul Dirac
1955 Ronald Fisher
1958 John Edensor Littlewood
1984 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1988 Michael Francis Atiyah
1998 James Lighthill