HONOR

Awarded by the Royal Society in even-numbered years for an "outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe."

Official Website:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards/medals/RumfordMedal.htm

1800	Benjamin Count Rumford
1802	(no award)
1804	John Leslie
1806	William Murdock
1808	(no award)
1810	Étienne Louis Malus
1812	(no award)
1814	William Charles Wells
1816	Humphry Davy
1818	David Brewster
1820	(no award)
1822	(no award)
1824	Augustin-Jean Fresnel
1826	(no award)
1828	(no award)
1830	(no award)
1832	John Frederick Daniell
1834	Macedonio Melloni
1836	(no award)
1838	James David Forbes
1840	Jean-Baptiste Biot
1842	William Henry Fox Talbot
1844	(no award)
1846	Michael Faraday
1848	Henri-Victor Regnault
1850	François Arago
1852	George Gabriel Stokes
1854	Neil Arnott
1856	Louis Pasteur
1858	Jules Jamin
1860	James Clerk Maxwell
1862	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
1864	John Tyndall
1866	Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
1868	Balfour Stewart
1870	Alfred Olivier Des Cloizeaux
1872	Anders Jonas Ångström
1874	Joseph Norman Lockyer
1876	Pierre Janssen
1878	Alfred Cornu
1880	William Huggins
1882	William de Wiveleslie Abney
1884	Tobias Robertus Thalen
1886	Samuel P. Langley
1888	Pietro Tacchini
1890	Heinrich Hertz
1892	Nils C. Duner
1894	James Dewar
1896	Philipp Lenard and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
1898	Oliver Joseph Lodge
1900	Henri Becquerel
1902	Charles Algernon Parsons
1904	Ernest Rutherford
1906	Hugh Longbourne Callendar
1908	Hendrik Lorentz
1910	Heinrich Rubens
1912	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1914	Lord Rayleigh
1916	William Bragg
1918	Charles Fabry Alfred Perot
1920	Lord Rayleigh
1922	Pieter Zeeman
1924	Charles Vernon Boys
1926	Arthur Schuster
1928	Friedrich Paschen
1930	Peter Debye
1932	Fritz Haber
1934	Wander Johannes de Haas
1936	Ernest John Coker
1938	Robert W. Wood
1940	Manne Siegbahn
1942	Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson
1944	Harry Ralph Ricardo
1946	Alfred Egerton
1948	Franz Eugen Simon
1950	Frank Whittle
1952	Frits Zernike
1954	Cecil Reginald Burch
1956	Frank Philip Bowden
1958	Thomas Merton
1960	Alfred Gordon Gaydon
1962	Dudley Maurice Newitt
1964	Hendrick Christoffel van de Hulst
1966	William Penney
1968	Dennis Gabor
1970	Christopher Hinton
1972	Basil John Mason
1974	Alan Cottrell
1976	Ilya Prigogine
1978	George Porter
1980	William Frank Vinen
1982	Charles Gorrie Wynne
1984	Harold Horace Hopkins
1986	Denis Rooke
1990	Walter Spear
1992	Harold Temperley
1994	Andrew Keller
1996	Grenville Turner
1998	Richard Friend
2000	Wilson Sibbett
2002	David King
2004	Richard Dixon
2006	Jean-Pierre Hansen
2008	Edward Hinds
2010	Gilbert Lonzarich

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