Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

File: JohnMcFall-Manchester-20070513. jpg | John McFall, who has an above-knee leg amputation, and uses a prosthetic leg, is a sprinter and winner of a gold medal at the 2007 Paralympic World Cup

When awarded for acts of heroism, the medal is awarded with the " V " Device.

The medal is the fourth-highest combat decoration and the ninth highest U. S. military award in order of precedence.

Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.

Separate Distinguished Service Medals exist for the different branches of the military as well as a fifth version of the medal which is a senior award of the United States Department of Defense.

The medal is suspended by a bar attached to the ribbon.

## NSN for replacement medal is 8455-00-246-3830.

The medal is gold in color and on the obverse it features a medium blue enameled pentagon ( point up ).

The top 50 % of the contestants are awarded medals, such that the relative number of gold: silver: bronze: no medal is approximately 1: 2: 3: 6 ( thus 1 / 12 of the contestants get a gold medal ).

He continued to submit his works to the Salon, where his painting Spanish Singer had won a 2nd class medal in 1861, and he urged the others to do likewise, arguing that " the Salon is the real field of battle " where a reputation could be made.

He is later awarded a Gold medal from U. S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.

Roe thought it " an especial favour, for that all the great men that wear the Kings image ( which none may do but to whom it is given ) receive no other than a medal of gold as big as six pence.

As such, the medal can be considered as " points " in some enlisted promotion systems, such as the Air Force, where it is counted as seven points ( out of a possible 25 points for decorations ).

The reverse of the medal has the motto taken from the Great Seal of the United States, "" (" He Has Favored Our Undertakings ") and the date "" ( 1782 ) which is the date of America's first decoration, the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart.

On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009, Kalashnikov was named a " Hero of the Russian Federation " and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating " the brand every Russian is proud of.

Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money which is decided by Nobel Foundation yearly.

When the medal With Distinction is awarded, the star may be presented depending from a neck ribbon and can be identified by its larger size than the standard medal ( compare size of medals in pictures below ; President Reagan's was awarded With Distinction ).

In addition, the medal is accompanied by a service ribbon for wear on military service uniform, a miniature medal pendant for wear on mess dress or civilian formal wear, and a lapel badge for wear on civilian clothes ( all shown in the accompanying photograph of the full presentation set ).

The Pierre de Coubertin medal ( also known as the Coubertin medal or the True Spirit of Sportsmanship medal ) is an award given by the International Olympic Committee to those athletes that demonstrate the spirit of sportsmanship in the Olympic Games.

Two districts — Eanes and Round Rock — are rated " gold medal ", the highest of the magazine's cost-performance categories.

Judit played board 2 and finished the tournament with the highest score of 12½ – ½ to win the individual gold medal.

While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.

This medal is considered by many athletes and spectators to be the highest award that an Olympic athlete can receive, even greater than a gold medal.

Four years later the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE ), later IEEE, entered into an agreement with the group to present the medal as its highest award.

He has received considerable critical praise in France, including for several films which were not well received in the United States, and he has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he became a recipient of the French Republic's Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 he was awarded the Légion d ' honneur medal.

On May 22, 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Haig was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the US Army's second highest medal for valor, by General William Westmoreland as a result of his actions during the Battle of Ap Gu in March 1967.

Medals are awarded to the highest ranked participants, such that slightly less than half of them receive a medal.

The Crown Army was judged too weak to oppose the four columns of enemy armies advancing into Polish Ukraine and began a fighting withdrawal to the western side of the Southern Bug River, where it regrouped and countered the Russian advance in a pitched battle, when Prince Poniatowski was victorious in the Battle of Zieleńce ( June 18, 1792 ), while Kościuszko's division took part in only some artillery exchange at the end of the battle, the general was among the first to receive the newly created Virtuti Militari medal, Poland's highest military decoration even today.

* Silver medal – awarded since 1949 to the highest finishing amateur.

However, on May 11, President Roosevelt approved the Navy Cross, the Navy's highest medal, for Miller.

She was decorated with the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, the USSR's highest award.

** Ronnie Renner won the gold medal in Moto X Step Up, breaking the previous record height of 37 ' by 10 ' making it the highest ever at the X Games with 47 '.

In July 1938, prior to the outbreak of war, the German consul at Cleveland gave Ford, on his 75th birthday, the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner.

In 1778 he took a silver medal for drawing from life, and in 1782 the Academy ’ s highest award, the gold medal for historical painting, his subject being King Lear.

More international recognition came in 2007, when Monde Selection, the international institute in Brussels, Belgium, awarded during the International Wine Contest, the Grand Gold medal — the highest honor rarely accorded to a wine — to Canada ’ s Northern Ice Vidal Blanc Icewine 2005, the first vintage of The Ice House in Niagara, a winery founded by winemaker Jamie Macfarlane.

On the awards night, the votes from each match are tallied, and the player or players with the highest number of votes is awarded the medal ( subject to eligibility – see below ).

Since the rules were changed in 1980, if two or more eligible players score the equal highest number of votes, each wins a Brownlow medal.

In 1991 Kim Zmeskal became the first American World All-Around Champion ; the following year at the 1992 Olympics the American women won their first team medal ( bronze ) and highest all-around ranking by Shannon Miller in a fully attended Games.

Canada has been successful in winning the highest honour possible in the sport several times, the biennially challenged IDBF Nation's Cup, which is awarded to the country that earns the highest medal count total at world championship regattas.

In 1934 German received the Royal Philharmonic Society's highest honour, its gold medal, presented by Sir Thomas Beecham at an RPS concert.