# Medalha Rumford

Em 1796, Benjamin Thompson, o conde de Rumford, fez duas doações de USD 5.000 cada, uma para a Royal Society de Londres e outra para a Academia de Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos, para tornar possível que eles sempre premiassem pessoas a cada dois anos, por pesquisas relevantes sobre calor e/ou luz.
A Academia de Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos concede o Prêmio Rumford, enquanto a Royal Society concede a Medalha Rumford.

## Medalhistas
### Século XVIII

* 1800 : Benjamin Thompson

### Século XIX

* 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 Célestin Jamin
* 1860: James Clerk Maxwell
* 1862: Gustav Kirchhoff
* 1864: John Tyndall
* 1866: Hippolyte Fizeau
* 1868: Balfour Stewart
* 1870: Alfred Des Cloizeaux
* 1872: Anders Jonas Ångström
* 1874: Norman Lockyer
* 1876: Pierre 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 Hertz
* 1892: Nils Christoffer Dunér
* 1894: James Dewar
* 1896: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Philipp Lenard
* 1898: Oliver Lodge
* 1900: Antoine Henri Becquerel

### Século XX

* 1902: Charles Algernon Parsons
* 1904: Ernest Rutherford
* 1906: Hugh Longbourne Callendar
* 1908: Hendrik Lorentz
* 1910: Heinrich Rubens
* 1912: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
* 1914: John William Strutt
* 1916: William Henry Bragg
* 1918: Charles Fabry e Alfred Perot
* 1920: John William Strutt
* 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 George Coker
* 1938: Robert Williams Wood
* 1940: Karl Siegbahn
* 1942: Gordon Dobson
* 1944: Harry Ricardo
* 1946: Alfred Egerton
* 1948: Francis Simon
* 1950: Frank Whittle
* 1952: Frits Zernike
* 1954: Cecil Reginald Burch
* 1956: Frank Philip Bowden
* 1958: Thomas Ralph 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 Weinberg
* 1990: Walter Eric Spear
* 1992: Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
* 1994: Andrew Keller
* 1996: Grenville Turner
* 1998: Richard Friend
* 2000: Wilson Sibbett

### Século XXI

* 2002: David King
* 2004: Richard Dixon
* 2006: Jean-Pierre Hansen
* 2008: Edward Hinds
* 2010: Gilbert Lonzarich
* 2012: Roy Taylor
* 2014: Jeremy Baumberg
* 2016: Ortwin Hess
* 2018: Ian Walmsley
* 2019: Miles Padgett
* 2020: Patrick Gill
* 2021: Carlos Frenk