Rumfordova medalja

Članak Rumfordova medalja nemojte zamijeniti sa člankom Rumfordova nagrada.

Godine 1796. Benjamin Thompson, poznat kao Grof Rumford, dao je 5.000 $, odvojeno, za Kraljevsko društvo i Američku akademiju umjetnosti i nauka za nagradu (koja bi bila dodjeljivana svake druge godine) za istaknuto istraživanje u područjima toplote ili svjetlosti. Kraljevsko društvo dodjeljuje Rumfordovu medalju; Američka akademija umjetnosti i nauka dodjeljuje Rumfordovu nagradu.

Rumfordova medalja ograničena je na naučnike koji rade u Evropi. Dodjeljuje se u parnim godinama kao priznanje za važna otkrića u području termalnih ili optičkih osobina osobina materije od naučnika koji radi u Evropi. Medalja je posrebrena, a uz nju se dobija novčana nagrada od 1.000 funti.

 Dobitnici 
 18. stoljeće 
 1800: Benjamin Thompson

 19. stoljeće 

 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 i Philipp Lenard
 1898: Oliver Joseph Lodge
 1900: Antoine Henri Becquerel

 20. stoljeće 

 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 i 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 Gábor
 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

 21. stoljeće 

 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
 2022: Raymond Pierrehumbert
 2023: Polina Bajvelj
 2024: Tony Bell
 2025: Bernard F. Schutz

 Vanjski linkovi 
 Rumford Medal
 List of recipients of the Rumford Medal

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