About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Davy Medal, Hughes Medal, Rumford Medal, Awards, lectures and medals of the Royal Society, Mullard Award, Lister Medal, Michael Faraday Prize, Darwin Medal, Buchanan Medal, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Sylvester Medal, Leverhulme Medal, Gabor Medal, Adams Prize, James Watt International Medal, Linnean Medal, British Construction Industry Awards, The Veitch Memorial Medal, Faraday Medal, Guthrie Medal and Prize, Eddington Medal, Berwick Prize, Corday-Morgan Medal, Faraday Lectureship Prize, Appleton Medal and Prize, Duddell Medal and Prize, Holweck Prize, Edward Harrison Memorial Prize, The Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year Awards, De Morgan Medal, Maxwell Medal and Prize, Jackson-Gwilt Medal, Frink Medal, Isaac Newton Medal, Engineering Leadership Award, Colworth Medal, Rayleigh Medal, Marsh Ecology Award, Young Medal and Prize, Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society, Rosalind Franklin Award, Stokes Medal, Price Medal, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Herschel Medal, Tyndall Medal, Kelvin Prize, Chapman Medal, Frohlich Prize, R W B Stephens Medal, Mott Prize, A B Wood Medal, Yell UK Web Awards, Future UK Internet Awards. Excerpt: The Copley Medal is an award given by the Royal Society of London for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science, and alternates between the physical sciences and the biological sciences." Awarded every year, the medal is the oldest Royal Society medal still being awarded, having first been given in 1731 to Stephen Gray, who received it for "his new Electrical Experiments: - as an encouragement to him for the readiness he has always shown in obliging the Society with his discoveries and improvements in this part of Natural Knowledge." The medal was created...
