Rumford Medal

:"Not to be confused with the Rumford Prize"

In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, gave $5000 separately to the Royal Society of London and the other by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to give awards every two years for outstanding scientific research on heat or light.

The Royal Society awards the Rumford Medal; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awards the Rumford Prize.

The Rumford Medal is restricted to scientists working in Europe. It is awarded in even years in recognition of an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe, noting that Rumford was concerned to see recognised discoveries that tended to promote the good of mankind. The medal is of silver gilt and a gift of £1000 is associated with it.

Rumford Medalists

18th Century

* 1800 : Benjamin Thompson

19th Century

* 1804 : John Leslie
* 1808 : William Murdoch
* 1810 : Étienne Louis Malus
* 1814 : William Charles Wells
* 1816 : Humphry Davy
* 1818 : David Brewster
* 1824 : Augustin-Jean Fresnel
* 1832 : John Frederic Daniell
* 1834 : Macedonio Melloni
* 1838 : James David Forbes
* 1840 : Jean-Baptiste Biot
* 1842 : William Henry Fox Talbot
* 1846 : Michael Faraday
* 1848 : Henri Victor Regnault
* 1850 : François Jean Dominique Arago
* 1852 : George Gabriel Stokes
* 1854 : Neil Arnott
* 1856 : Louis Pasteur
* 1858 : Jules Jamin
* 1860 : James Clerk Maxwell
* 1862 : Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
* 1864 : John Tyndall
* 1866 : Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
* 1868 : Balfour Stewart
* 1870 : Alfred Olivier Des Cloizeaux
* 1872 : Anders Jonas Ångström
* 1874 : Joseph Norman Lockyer
* 1876 : Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen
* 1878 : Alfred Cornu
* 1880 : William Huggins
* 1882 : William de Wiveleslie Abney
* 1884 : Tobias Robertus Thalen
* 1886 : Samuel Pierpont Langley
* 1888 : Pietro Tacchini
* 1890 : Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
* 1892 : Nils C Duner
* 1894 : James Dewar
* 1896 : Wilhelm Röntgen and Philipp Lenard
* 1898 : Oliver Joseph Lodge

* 1900 : Antoine Henri Becquerel

20th Century

* 1902 : Charles Algernon Parsons
* 1904 : Ernest Rutherford
* 1906 : Hugh Longbourne Callendar
* 1908 : Hendrik Anton Lorentz
* 1910 : Heinrich Rubens
* 1912 : Kamerlingh Onnes
* 1914 : Lord Rayleigh
* 1916 : William Henry Bragg
* 1918 : Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot
* 1920 : Lord Rayleigh
* 1922 : Pieter Zeeman
* 1924 : Charles Vernon Boys
* 1926 : Arthur Schuster
* 1928 : Friedrich Paschen
* 1930 : Peter Debye
* 1932 : Fritz Haber
* 1934 : Wander Johannes de Haas
* 1936 : Ernest John Coker
* 1938 : Robert Williams Wood
* 1940 : Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
* 1942 : Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson
* 1944 : Harry Ralph Ricardo
* 1946 : Alfred Egerton
* 1948 : Franz Eugen Simon
* 1950 : Frank Whittle
* 1952 : Frits Zernike
* 1954 : Cecil Reginald Burch
* 1956 : Frank Philip Bowden
* 1958 : Thomas Merton
* 1960 : Alfred Gordon Gaydon
* 1962 : Dudley Maurice Newitt
* 1964 : Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst
* 1966 : William Penney
* 1968 : Dennis Gabor
* 1970 : Christopher Hinton
* 1972 : Basil John Mason
* 1974 : Alan Cottrell
* 1976 : Ilya Prigogine
* 1978 : George Porter
* 1980 : William Frank Vinen
* 1982 : Charles Gorrie Wynne
* 1984 : Harold Hopkins
* 1986 : Denis Rooke
* 1988 : Felix J. Weinberg
* 1990 : Walter Eric Spear
* 1992 : Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
* 1994 : Andrew Keller
* 1996 : Grenville Turner
* 1998 : Richard Henry Friend
* 2000 : Wilson Sibbett

21st Century

* 2002 : David King
* 2004 : Richard Dixon
* 2006 : Jean-Pierre Hansen
* 2008 : Edward Hinds

External links

* [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?tip=1&id=1745 Rumford Medal]
* [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1748 List of recipients of the Rumford Medal]