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was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.
* 1775 – Awarded the Royal Society's Copley medal
This measurement, which earned the General the Copley medal of the Royal Society, was the origin of all subsequent surveys of the United Kingdom, and still forms the basis of the Ordnance Survey maps today.
In 1744 he received the Copley gold medal for microscopical observations on the crystallization of saline particles.
The learned societies of his own country bestowed their highest rewards upon him: the Royal Society gave him the Copley medal, the Geological Society its Wollaston medal, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh its Brisbane Medal.
The medal was created following a donation of £ 100 to be used for carrying out experiments by Sir Godfrey Copley, for which the interest on the amount was used for several years.
was made by Sir Joseph William Copley in 1881, and the interest from that amount is used to pay for the medal.
On 29 May 1777 Mudge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his ‘ Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes ; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve ,’ which were communicated by the author to the society, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions ( 1777, lxvii.
In 1844, for these studies, Matteucci was awarded with the Copley medal by the Royal Society.
Although the Croonian Lecture was created in 1701 it was first awarded in 1738, seven years after the Copley Medal which is the oldest Royal Society medal still in use and is awarded for " outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science ".
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1781 ; and he received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1791, and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1825.
His experiments on the specific gravities and attractive powers of various saline substances formed a substantial contribution to the methods of analytical chemistry, and in 1782 gained him the Copley medal from the Royal Society, of which he was elected a fellow in 1780 ; and in 1784 he was engaged in a controversy with Henry Cavendish in regard to the latter's experiments on air.
In 1784 he measured a base-line for that purpose between Hampton and Heathrow ( hamlet ), the germ of all subsequent surveys of the United Kingdom, for which in 1785 the Royal Society awarded him the Copley medal.
* Copley medal of the Royal Society, 1995
Another solo exhibition followed in 1911 at the Copley Gallery featuring her Lady with a Bowl of Violets ( 1910 ) and by 1915, Perry had received yet another bronze medal at the prestigious Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California.
In 1824, he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon along with John Constable and Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, and spent most of the year painting coastal views in Dunkirk.

Copley and Royal
He was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1858 and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1866.
The same year, Herschel was awarded the Copley Medal and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
" In 1901 Gibbs received what was then considered the highest honor awarded by the international scientific community, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London, " for his contributions to mathematical physics.
He was inducted as a foreign member of the Royal Society of London in 1897 and received the Society's Copley Medal in 1901.
He went on to win the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979.
In addition to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962, which he shared with John Kendrew for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins, Max Perutz received a number of other important honors: he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963, received the Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst in 1967, the Royal Medal in 1971, the Copley Medal in 1979, the Companions of Honour in 1975, and the Order of Merit in 1989.
For this work he was presented in 1826 with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society ( which he won again in 1836 ), and with the Lalande Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, while in 1821 the Royal Society bestowed upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their Transactions.
In the same year, Herschel received his second Copley Medal from the Royal Society for this work.
* Copley Medal of the Royal Society ( 1862 )
Plücker was the recipient of the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1866.
The Royal Society elected him a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1877 and bestowed their Rumford ( 1894 ), Davy ( 1909 ), and Copley Medal ( 1916 ) medals upon him for his work, as well as inviting him to deliver their Bakerian Lecture in 1901.
* Copley Medal of the Royal Society ( 1948 )
He also won the Copley Medal in 1907, the Henry Draper Medal in 1916 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1923.
Cavendish was awarded the Royal Society ’ s Copley Medal for this paper.
Huxley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 17 March 1955, and was awarded the Copley Medal in 1973 " in recognition of his outstanding studies on the mechanisms of the nerve impulse and of activation of muscular contraction.
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1895 and he won the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1903.
For his work in the Arctic Sabine received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1821.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753, and in 1759 won the Copley Medal for his research into the mechanics of waterwheels and windmills.

Copley and Society
In The Glory Years, by Frank F. Pourade ( 1964, Copley Press, republished by the San Diego Historical Society ), the author indicates that the Santa Maria Land & Water Company syndicate changed the name in 1886.
* Copley Medal, a scientific award granted by the Royal Society of London
In 1823 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society and two years later received its Copley Medal for his work on correcting the deviation in ship compasses caused by the presence of iron in the hull.

Copley and );
* Copley Medal of the Royal Society ( 1890 );
* Stephen Hawking -- Distinguished Research Chair ; Wolf Prize ( 1988 ); Copley Medal ( 2006 ); Dirac Medal and Prize ( 1987 ); Maxwell Medal and Prize ( 1976 ); Albert Einstein Medal ( 1979 ); Albert Einstein Award ( 1978 ); Eddington Medal ( 1975 )
Simon continued to be a prolific acquirer of shopping centers, including a portfolio from New England Development in 1999 ; several prime properties from Rodamco North America in 2002 ( including Houston Galleria in Houston, Texas and SouthPark Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina ); several high-profile properties such as Dadeland Mall, Fashion Valley Mall, Copley Place, Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, and Stanford Shopping Center ; and in 2004, Chelsea Premium Outlets ( now simply named " Premium Outlets ").

medal and Royal
He was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Photographic Society in 1934, the Howard N. Potts Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1941, the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the same Franklin Institute in 1969, and the National Medal of Science in 1973.
In 1819, Severn was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Academy for his painting Una and the Red Cross Knight in the Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
The gatehouse-inspired Falmer House won a bronze medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
He received a medal from the Royal Society for his memoir of 1844, On A General Method of Analysis.
* In 1885, Steinway received the gold medal at the International Inventions Exhibition in London and the grand gold medal of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
As President of The Royal Society, Banks provided a cash bounty and gold medal for success in this endeavor, and successfully lobbied his friends in government and the Admiralty for a British Naval expedition.
Although Bligh won the Royal Society medal for his efforts, the introduction was not entirely successful, as the slaves refused to eat breadfruit.
He was knighted in 1904 and awarded the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize for 1900-1904 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 1908 he was awarded the Albert medal of The Society of Arts.
In 1769 he was awarded the first gold medal for sculpture given by the Royal Academy, for a bas-relief representing the escape of Aeneas from Troy.
The pundit ( explorer ) cartographer Nain Singh Rawat ( 19th century ) received a Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1876.
* The Royal Geographical Society of London special great gold medal
* Royal Italian Geographical Society King Humbert gold medal
* Royal Belgian Geographical Society gold medal
* Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp gold medal
Initially, the award came with a $ 15, 000 bursary-today's winners receive $ 25, 000 and a medal struck by the Royal Canadian Mint.
* Royal Society of Arts Prize medal, 1801
This style was also used for a house he designed for himself in Clarendon Place, Paddington in 1924, which won the annual medal for London street architecture of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1928.
In recognition of his services he received a knighthood of the first class of the Norwegian Royal Order of St Olaf in 1898, and was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society in 1899.
" Eve at the Fountain " In 1811 he gained the Royal Academy gold medal for a model of Hercules restoring Alcestis to Admetus, and soon after exhibited Apollo discharging his Arrows against the Greeks and Hercules casting Lichas into the Sea.
In 1892 he was vice-president of the International Congress of Psychology held in London, and in 1897 – 1898 president of the American Psychological Association ; he received a gold medal from the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Denmark ( 1897 ), and was honorary president of the International Congress of Criminal Anthropology held in Geneva in 1896.
A bold and compulsive traveller, fascinated by oriental life and geography, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his exploration of the source of the Amu Darya ( Oxus ).

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