John Scott Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1910
notes: label: Description
content: John Scott—described by historians as “a biographer’s nightmare”—was a pharmacist in Edinburgh who probably never set foot in the New World. In 1813, however, he revised his will to include funds for the John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, to be presented by the city of Philadelphia to men and women whose inventions improved the "comfort, welfare, and happiness of human kind" in a significant way. The first Scott medal was awarded in 1822
label: Description
content: This is the medal that Leo Baekeland received in 1910. The inscription on the obverse reads: “AWARDED BY THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.” That on the reverse reads: THE JOHN SCOTT MEDAL – TO THE MOST DESERVING” and “TO / LEO H. BAEKELAND / for his / INVENTION OF BAKELITE / on the recommendation of the / FRANKLIN / INSTITUTE / 1910.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Bakelite
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Karraker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0034.33a
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0034.33a
label: accession number
content: 1982.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: John Scott Medal
label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 10.2 cm; 13/32 in x 4 1/32 in