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The award was created after a £100 bequest in 1709 to the Royal Society by Sir Godfrey Copley , a wealthy landowner from Sprotbrough , near Doncaster , South Yorkshire , who was elected to the Society in 1691 .

It is one of ten medals that the Society awards (some awards are made annually, others at different intervals according to their terms of reference). The Copley Medal alternates between the physical sciences and the biological sciences, and the winners are selected by Fellows of the Society.

Past laureates are:

1730

1731 Stephen Gray

1732 Stephen Gray

1733 ?

1734 John Theophilus Desaguliers

1735 ?

1736 John Theophilus Desaguliers

1737 John Belchier

1738 James Valoue

1739 Stephen Hales

1740 Alexander Stuart

1741 John Theophilus Desaguliers

1742 Christopher Middleton

1743 Abraham Trembley

1744 Henry Baker

1745 William Watson

1746 Benjamin Robins

1747 Gowin Knight

1748 James Bradley

1749 John Harrison

1750

1750 George Edwards

1751 John Canton

1752 John Pringle

1753 Benjamin Franklin

1754 William Lewis

1755 John Huxham

1756 Not awarded

1757 Lord Charles Cavendish

1758 John Dollond

1759 John Smeaton

1760 Benjamin Wilson

1761 Not awarded

1762 Not awarded

1763 Not awarded

1764 John Canton

1765 Not awarded

1766 William Brownrigg ; Edward Delaval ; Henry Cavendish

1767 John Ellis

1768 Peter Woulfe

1769 William Hewson

1770 William Hamilton

1771 Matthew Raper

1772 Joseph Priestley

1773 John Walsh

1774 Not awarded

1775 Nevil Maskelyne

1776 James Cook

1777 John Mudge

1778 Charles Hutton

1779 Not awarded

1780 Samuel Vince

1781 William Herschel

1782 Richard Kirwan

1783 John Goodricke ; Thomas Hutchins

1784 Edward Waring

1785 William Roy

1786 Not awarded

1787 John Hunter

1788 Charles Blagden

1789 William Morgan

1790 Not awarded

1791 James Rennell ; Jean-André Deluc (John Andrew de Luc)

1792 Benjamin Thompson , Count of Rumford

1793 Not awarded

1794 Alessandro Volta

1795 Jesse Ramsden

1796 George Atwood

1797 Not awarded

1798 George Shuckburgh ; Evelyn Charles Hatchett

1799 John Hellins

1800

1800 Edward Howard

1801 Astley Paston Cooper

1802 William Hyde Wollaston

1803 Richard Chenevix

1804 Smithson Tennant

1805 Humphry Davy

1806 Thomas Andrew Knight

1807 Everard Home

1808 William Henry

1809 Edward Troughton

1810 not awarded

1811 Benjamin Collins Brodie

1812 not awarded

1813 William Thomas Brande

1814 James Ivory

1815 David Brewster

1816 not awarded

1817 Henry Kater

1818 Robert Seppings

1819 not awarded

1820 Hans Christian Ørsted

1821 Edward Sabine ; John Herschel

1822 William Buckland

1823 John Pond

1824 John Brinkley

1825 François Arago ; Peter Barlow

1826 James South

1827 William Prout ; Henry Foster

1828 not awarded

1829 not awarded

1830 not awarded

1831 George Biddell Airy

1832 Michael Faraday ; Simeon Poisson

1833 not awarded

1834 Giovanni Plana

1835 William Snow Harris

1836 Jöns Jakob Berzelius ; Francis Kiernan

1837 Antoine César Becquerel ; John Frederic Daniell

1838 Carl Friedrich Gauss ; Michael Faraday

1839 Robert Brown

1840 Justus Liebig ; Jacques Charles François Sturm

1841 Georg Ohm

1842 James MacCullagh

1843 Jean Baptiste Dumas

1844 Carlo Matteucci

1845 Theodor Schwann

1846 Urbain Le Verrier

1847 John Herschel

1848 John Couch Adams

1849 Roderick Murchison

1850

1850 Peter Andreas Hansen

1851 Richard Owen

1852 Alexander Von Humboldt

1853 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove

1854 Johannes Peter Müller

1855 Léon Foucault

1856 Henri Milne-Edwards

1857 Michel Eugène Chevreul

1858 Charles Lyell

1859 Wilhelm Weber

1860 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

1861 Louis Agassiz

1862 Thomas Graham

1863 Adam Sedgwick

1864 Charles Darwin

1865 Michel Chasles

1866 Julius Plücker

1867 Karl Ernst Von Baer

1868 Charles Wheatstone

1869 Henri Victor Regnault

1870 James Prescott Joule

1871 Julius Robert Von Mayer

1872 Friedrich Woehler

1873 Hermann Helmholtz

1874 Louis Pasteur

1875 August Wilhelm Hofmann

1876 Claude Bernard

1877 James Dwight Dana

1878 Jean Baptiste Boussingault

1879 Rudolf Clausius

1880 James Joseph Sylvester

1881 Karl Adolph Wurtz

1882 Arthur Cayley

1883 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

1884 Carl Ludwig

1885 Friedrich August Kekulé Von Stradonitz

1886 Franz Ernst Neumann

1887 Joseph Dalton Hooker

1888 Thomas Henry Huxley

1889 George Salmon

1890 Simon Newcomb

1891 Stanislao Cannizzaro

1892 Rudolf Virchow

1893 George Gabriel Stokes

1894 Edward Frankland

1895 Karl Weierstrass

1896 Karl Gegenbaur

1897 Albert Von Kolliker

1898 William Huggins

1899 Lord Rayleigh

1900

1900 Marcellin Berthelot

1901 Willard Gibbs

1902 Lord Lister

1903 Eduard Suess

1904 William Crookes

1905 Dmitri Mendeleev

1906 Elias Metchnikoff

1907 Albert Abraham Michelson

1908 Alfred Russel Wallace

1909 George William Hill

1910 Francis Galton

1911 George Howard Darwin

1912 Felix Klein

1913 Ray Lankester

1914 Joseph John Thomson

1915 Ivan Pavlov

1916 James Dewar

1917 Emil Roux

1918 Hendrik Lorentz

1919 William Bayliss

1920 Horace Brown

1921 Joseph Larmor

1922 Ernest Rutherford

1923 Horace Lamb

1924 Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

1925 Albert Einstein

1926 Frederick Hopkins

1927 Charles Sherrington

1928 Charles Parsons

1929 Max Planck

1930 William Bragg

1931 Arthur Schuster

1932 George Ellery Hale

1933 Theobald Smith

1934 John Scott Haldane

1935 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1936 Arthur Evans

1937 Henry Dale

1938 Niels Bohr

1939 Thomas Hunt Morgan

1940 Paul Langevin

1941 Thomas Lewis

1942 Robert Robinson

1943 Joseph Barcroft

1944 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor {Link without Title}

1945 Oswald Theodore Avery

1946 Edgar Douglas Adrian

1947 G.H. Hardy

1948 Archibald Vivian Hill

1949 George Charles De Hevesy

1950

1950 James Chadwick

1951 David Keilin

1952 Paul Dirac

1953 Albert Kluyver

1954 Edmund Whittaker

1955 Ronald Fisher

1956 Patrick Blackett

1957 Howard Florey

1958 John Edensor Littlewood

1959 Macfarlane Burnet

1960 Harold Jeffreys

1961 Hans Krebs

1962 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

1963 Paul Fildes

1964 Sydney Chapman

1965 Alan Hodgkin

1966 William Lawrence Bragg

1967 Bernard Katz

1968 Tadeus Reichstein

1969 Peter Medawar

1970 Alexander Todd

1971 Norman Pirie

1972 Nevill Mott

1973 Andrew Huxley

1974 W.V.D. Hodge

1975 Francis Crick

1976 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

1977 Frederick Sanger

1978 Robert Burns Woodward

1979 Max Perutz

1980 Derek Harold Richard Barton

1981 Peter Mitchell

1982 John Cornforth

1983 Rodney Porter

1984 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

1985 Aaron Klug

1986 Rudolph Peierls

1987 Robert Hill

1988 Michael Francis Atiyah

1989 Cesar Milstein

1990 Abdus Salam

1991 Sydney Brenner

1992 George Porter

1993 James D. Watson

1994 Charles Frank

1995 Frank Fenner

1996 Alan Cottrell

1997 Hugh Huxley

1998 James Lighthill

1999 John Maynard Smith

2000

2000 Alan Battersby

2001 Jacques Miller

2002 John Pople

2003 John Gurdon

2004 Harold Kroto

2005 Paul Nurse {Link without Title}

SEE ALSO

List Of Prizes

Prizes Named After People

EXTERNAL LINKS

Royal Society: Copley Medal