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Franklin Medal

American science award


Summary

American science award

The Franklin Medal was a science award presented from 1915 until 1997 by the Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was founded in 1914 by innovator Samuel Insull, and it was the most prestigious of the various awards presented by the Franklin Institute. Together with the other eight historical awards, it was merged into the Benjamin Franklin Medal, initiated in 1998.

Laureates

Recipients are listed in a database on The Franklin Institute website.

YearCountryRecipientDisciplineNotes
1915USAEngineering
1915NLDPhysics
1916USAEngineering
1916USAChemistry
1917NLDPhysics
1917USAEngineering
1918ITAEngineering
1918USAPhysics
1919GBRPhysics
1919USAEngineering
1920SWEChemistry
1920GBREngineering
1921FRAPhysics
1921USAEngineering
1921POLEngineering
1922GBRPhysics
1923FRAEngineering/Computer and Cognitive Science
1923USAPhysics
1924GBRChemistry
1924USAEngineering
1925USAEngineering
1925NLDPhysics
1926DENPhysics
1926USAEngineering
1927USAPhysics
1927GERPhysics
1928USAEngineering
1928GERChemistry
1929USAEngineering
1929GBRPhysics
1930GBRPhysics
1930USAEngineering
1931GBRPhysics
1931USAEngineering
1932GERPhysics
1932USAEngineering
1933FRAChemistry
1933USAEngineering
1934USAChemistry
1934USAPhysics
1935SWIPhysics
1935GBREngineering
1936USAEngineering
1936USAEngineering
1937USAChemistry
1937USAPhysics
1938USAEngineering
1938USAChemistry
1939USAPhysics
1939BELEngineering
1940BELEngineering
1940USAPhysics
1941USAEngineering
1941British IndiaPhysics
1942USAEngineering
1942USAEngineering
1943USAEngineering
1943USAPhysics
1944USAEngineering
1944USSRPhysics
1945USAPhysics
1946USALife Science
1946GBREngineering
1946USAPhysics
1947GBRChemistry
1948USALife Science
1948USAEngineering
1949SWELife Science
1950USAPhysics
1951GBRPhysics
1952AUTPhysics
1953USAEngineering
1954GBREngineering
1955SWELife Science
1956GBREngineering
1957GBRChemistry
1958USAEngineering
1959USAPhysics
1960USAEngineering
1961USALife Science
1962GBRLife Science
1963USAPhysics
1964USAPhysics
1965USAEngineering
1966USALife Science
1967USAPhysics
1968USALife Science
1969USAPhysics
1970GERPhysics
1971SWEPhysics
1972USAChemistry
1973USALife Science
1974USSRPhysics
1975USAPhysics
1976USALife Science
1977USAEngineering
1978USAChemistry
1979GBRLife Science
1980USALife Science
1980USAPhysics
1981GBRPhysics
1982ARGLife Science
1982USAPhysics
1984USAEngineering
1985USAPhysics
1986USAPhysics
1987USALife Science
1988USAComputer and Cognitive Science
1990GBRLife Science
1990USAPhysics
1992USAPhysics
1995NLDPhysics
1996USAChemistry
1997ITALife Science
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Notes

References

References

  1. Flam, Faye. (April 29, 1996). "Five to Get Franklin Institute Honors". [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]].
  2. "Laureates Search". [[Franklin Institute]].
  3. (14 January 2014). "Thomas Alva Edison". Franklin Institute.
  4. (15 January 2014). "Auguste G. Ferrie". Franklin Institute.
  5. Isaacson, Walter. (2007). "Einstein: His Life and Universe". Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.
  6. (15 January 2014). "Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman". Franklin Institute.
  7. (15 January 2014). "Paul Dyer Merica". Franklin Institute.
  8. (15 January 2014). "Henry Clapp Sherman". Franklin Institute.
  9. (15 January 2014). "Henry Thomas Tizard". Franklin Institute.
  10. (15 January 2014). "Enrico Fermi". Franklin Institute.
  11. (15 January 2014). "Robert Robinson". Franklin Institute.
  12. (15 January 2014). "Wendell Meredith Stanley". Franklin Institute.
  13. (15 January 2014). "Theodor Von Karman". Franklin Institute.
  14. (15 January 2014). "The Svedberg". Franklin Institute.
  15. (15 January 2014). "Eugene P. Wigner". Franklin Institute.
  16. (15 January 2014). "James Chadwick". Franklin Institute.
  17. (15 January 2014). "Wolfgang Pauli". Franklin Institute.
  18. (14 January 2014). "William Francis Gibbs". Franklin Institute.
  19. (15 January 2014). "Charles Edward Kenneth Mees". Franklin Institute.
  20. (15 January 2014). "Arne Tiselius". Franklin Institute.
  21. (15 January 2014). "Frank Whittle". Franklin Institute.
  22. (15 January 2014). "Hugh Stott Taylor". Franklin Institute.
  23. (15 January 2014). "Donald Wills Douglas". Franklin Institute.
  24. (15 January 2014). "Hans Albrecht Bethe". Franklin Institute.
  25. (10 January 2014). "Roger Adams". Franklin Institute.
  26. (15 January 2014). "Detlev W. Bronk". Franklin Institute.
  27. (15 January 2014). "Geoffrey Ingram Taylor". Franklin Institute.
  28. (15 January 2014). "Glenn T. Seaborg". Franklin Institute.
  29. (15 January 2014). "Gregory Breit". Franklin Institute.
  30. (15 January 2014). "Frederick Seitz". Franklin Institute.
  31. (15 January 2014). "Britton Chance". Franklin Institute.
  32. "Murray Gell-Mann". Franklin Institute.
  33. (15 January 2014). "Marshall Warren Nirenberg". Franklin Institute.
  34. (15 January 2014). "John Archibald Wheeler". Franklin Institute.
  35. (15 January 2014). "Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky". Franklin Institute.
  36. (15 January 2014). "Hannes Alfven". Franklin Institute.
  37. (15 January 2014). "George Kistiakowsky". Franklin Institute.
  38. (15 January 2014). "Theodosius Grigorevich Dobzhansky". Franklin Institute.
  39. (15 January 2014). "Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov". Franklin Institute.
  40. (14 January 2014). "John Bardeen". Franklin Institute.
  41. (15 January 2014). "Mahlon B. Hoagland". Franklin Institute.
  42. (15 January 2014). "Cyril Manton Harris". Franklin Institute.
  43. (15 January 2014). "Elias J. Corey". Franklin Institute.
  44. (15 January 2014). "G. Evelyn Hutchinson". Franklin Institute.
  45. (15 January 2014). "Avram Goldstein". Franklin Institute.
  46. (15 January 2014). "Lyman Spitzer Jr.". Franklin Institute.
  47. (15 January 2014). "Stephen W. Hawking". Franklin Institute.
  48. (15 January 2014). "Cesar Milstein". Franklin Institute.
  49. (15 January 2014). "Kenneth Geddes Wilson". Franklin Institute.
  50. (15 January 2014). "Verner E. Suomi". Franklin Institute.
  51. (15 January 2014). "George Claude Pimentel". Franklin Institute.
  52. (15 January 2014). "Benoît Mandelbrot". Franklin Institute.
  53. (15 January 2014). "Stanley Cohen". Franklin Institute.
  54. (15 January 2014). "Donald Ervin Knuth". Franklin Institute.
  55. (15 January 2014). "Hugh E. Huxley". Franklin Institute.
  56. (15 January 2014). "David Turnbull". Franklin Institute.
  57. (15 January 2014). "Frederick Reines". Franklin Institute.
  58. (15 January 2014). "Gerard 't Hooft". Franklin Institute.
  59. (15 January 2014). "Richard E. Smalley". Franklin Institute.
  60. (15 January 2014). "Mario Renato Capecchi". Franklin Institute.
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