Medalla Copley

Medalla Copley
Nom en la llengua original	(en) Copley Medal
Tipus	premi científic ; medalla
Epònim	Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet (en)
Vigència	1731 -
Interval de temps	1731 -
Estat	Regne Unit
Impulsor	Royal Society
Guanys en premis	25.000 £
Conferit per	Royal Society
Guanyador	Stephen Gray (1731); Stephen Gray (1732); Jean Théophile Désaguliers (1734); Jean Théophile Désaguliers (1736); John Belchier (oc) (1737); James Valoue (1738); Stephen Hales (1739); Alexander Stuart (en) (1740); Jean Théophile Désaguliers (1741); Christopher Middleton (1742); Abraham Trembley (1743); Henry Baker (1744); William Watson (1745); Benjamin Robins (1746); Gowin Knight (en) (1747); James Bradley (1748); John Harrison (1749); George Edwards (1750); John Canton (1751); John Pringle (1752); Benjamin Franklin (1753); William Lewis (en) (1754); John Huxham (en) (1755); Lord Charles Cavendish (en) (1757); John Dollond (1758); John Smeaton (1759); Benjamin Wilson (1760); John Canton (1764); Henry Cavendish (1766); William Brownrigg (en) (1766); Edward Delaval (1766); John Ellis (1767); Peter Woulfe (1768); William Hewson (en) (1769); William Hamilton (1770); Matthew Raper (1771); Joseph Priestley (1772); John Walsh (en) (1773); Nevil Maskelyne (1775); James Cook (1776); John Mudge (en) (1777); Charles Hutton (1778); Samuel Vince (1780); William Herschel (1781); Richard Kirwan (1782); Thomas Hutchins (1783); John Goodricke (1783); Edward Waring (1784); William Roy (1785); John Hunter (1787); Charles Blagden (1788); William Morgan (1789); Jean André Deluc (1791); James Rennell (1791); Benjamin Thompson (1792); Alessandro Volta (1794); Jesse Ramsden (1795); George Atwood (1796); Charles Hatchett (1798); George Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1798); John Hellins (1799); Edward Charles Howard (1800); Astley Cooper (1801); William Hyde Wollaston (1802); Richard Chenevix (en) (1803); Smithson Tennant (1804); Humphry Davy (1805); Thomas Andrew Knight (1806); Everard Home (1807); William Henry (1808); Edward Troughton (1809); Benjamin Collins Brodie (1811); William Thomas Brande (1813); James Ivory (1814); David Brewster (1815); Henry Kater (1817); Robert Seppings (1818); Hans Christian Ørsted (1820); Edward Sabine (1821); John Herschel (1821); William Buckland (1822); John Pond (1823); John Brinkley (1824); Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó (1825); Peter Barlow (1825); James South (1826); William Prout (1827); Henry Foster (1827); George Biddell Airy (1831); Michael Faraday (1832); Siméon Denis Poisson (1832); Giovanni Plana (1834); William Snow Harris (1835); Francis Kiernan (1836); Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1836); Antoine Henri Becquerel (1837); John Frederic Daniell (1837); Michael Faraday (1838); Carl Friedrich Gauß (1838); Robert Brown (1839); Jacques Charles François Sturm (1840); Justus von Liebig (1840); Georg Simon Ohm (1841); James MacCullagh (1842); Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1843); Carlo Matteucci (1844); Theodor Schwann (1845); Urbain Le Verrier (1846); John Herschel (1847); John Couch Adams (1848); Roderick Murchison (1849); Peter Andreas Hansen (1850); Richard Owen (1851); Alexander von Humboldt (1852); Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1853); Johannes Peter Müller (1854); Léon Foucault (1855); Henri Milne Edwards (1856); Michel Eugène Chevreul (1857); Charles Lyell (1858); Wilhelm Weber (1859); Robert Bunsen (1860); Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1861); Thomas Graham (1862); Adam Sedgwick (1863); Charles Darwin (1864); Michel Chasles (1865); Julius Plücker (1866); Karl Ernst von Baer (1867); Charles Wheatstone (1868); Henri Victor Regnault (1869); James Prescott Joule (1870); Julius Robert von Mayer (1871); Friedrich Wöhler (1872); Hermann von Helmholtz (1873); Louis Pasteur (1874); August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1875); Claude Bernard (1876); James Dwight Dana (1877); Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1878); Rudolf Clausius (1879); James Joseph Sylvester (1880); Charles Adolphe Würtz (1881); Arthur Cayley (1882); William Thomson (1883); Carl Ludwig Siegel (1884); Friedrich August Kekulé (1885); Franz Ernst Neumann (1886); Joseph Dalton Hooker (1887); Thomas Henry Huxley (1888); George Salmon (1889); Simon Newcomb (1890); Stanislao Cannizzaro (1891); Rudolf Virchow (1892); George Gabriel Stokes (1893); Edward Frankland (1894); Karl Weierstrass (1895); Karl Gegenbaur (1896); Albert von Kölliker (1897); William Huggins (1898); John Strutt (1899); Marcellin Pierre Eugène Berthelot (1900); Josiah Willard Gibbs (1901); Joseph Lister (1902); Eduard Suess (1903); William Crookes (1904); Dmitri Mendeléiev (1905); Ilià Mètxnikov (1906); Albert Abraham Michelson (1907); Alfred Russel Wallace (1908); George William Hill (1909); Francis Galton (1910); George Darwin (1911); Felix Klein (1912); Ray Lankester (1913); Joseph John Thomson (1914); Ivan Petróvitx Pàvlov (1915); James Dewar (1916); Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1917); Hendrik Lorentz (1918); William Bayliss (1919); Horace Tabberer Brown (1920); Joseph Larmor (1921); Ernest Rutherford (1922); Horace Lamb (1923); Edward Sharpey-Schafer (1924); Albert Einstein (1925); Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1926); Charles Scott Sherrington (1927); Charles Algernon Parsons (1928); Max Planck (1929); William Henry Bragg (1930); Arthur Schuster (1931); George Ellery Hale (1932); Theobald Smith (1933); John Scott Haldane (1934); Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1935); Arthur Evans (1936); Henry Hallett Dale (1937); Niels Bohr (1938); Thomas Hunt Morgan (1939); Paul Langevin (1940); Thomas Lewis (1941); Robert Robinson (1942); Joseph Barcroft (1943); Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1944); Oswald Avery (1945); Edgar Douglas Adrian (1946); Godfrey Harold Hardy (1947); Archibald Vivian Hill (1948); George de Hevesy (1949); James Chadwick (1950); David Keilin (1951); Paul Dirac (1952); Albert Jan Kluyver (1953); Edmund Whittaker (1954); Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1955); Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1956); Howard Walter Florey (1957); John Edensor Littlewood (1958); Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1959); Harold Jeffreys (1960); Hans Adolf Krebs (1961); Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1962); Paul Fildes (1963); Sydney Chapman (1964); Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1965); William Lawrence Bragg (1966); Bernard Katz (1967); Tadeusz Reichstein (1968); Peter Medawar (1969); Alexander Robertus Todd (1970); Norman Pirie (1971); Nevill Francis Mott (1972); Andrew Huxley (1973); William Hodge (1974); Francis Crick (1975); Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1976); Frederick Sanger (1977); Robert Burns Woodward (1978); Max Ferdinand Perutz (1979); Derek Harold Richard Barton (1980); Peter D. Mitchell (1981); John Cornforth (1982); Rodney Robert Porter (1983); Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1984); Aaron Klug (1985); Rudolf Peierls (1986); Robert Hill (1987); Michael Atiyah (1988); César Milstein (1989); Abdus Salam (1990); Sydney Brenner (1991); George Porter (1992); James Dewey Watson (1993); Frederick Charles Frank (1994); Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1995); Alan Cottrell (1996); Hugh Huxley (1997); James Lighthill (1998); John Maynard Smith (1999); Alan R. Battersby (2000); Jacques Miller (2001); John Pople (2002); John B. Gurdon (2003); Harold Kroto (2004); Paul Nurse (2005); Stephen Hawking (2006); Robert May (2007); Roger Penrose (2008); Martin Evans (2009); David R. Cox (2010); Tomas Lindahl (2010); Dan Peter McKenzie (2011); John Ernest Walker (2012); Andre Geim (2013); Alec Jeffreys (2014); Peter Higgs (2015); Richard Henderson (2016); Andrew Wiles (2017); Jeffrey Ivan Gordon (2018); John Bannister Goodenough (2019); Jocelyn Bell (2021)
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La medalla Copley és el major reconeixent al treball científic, en qualsevol dels seus camps, atorgada per la Royal Society. A més a més és el guardó més antic, ja que la primera medalla es va concedir el 1731.

El premi es va crear després d'una donació a la Real Society de 100 lliures per part de Sir Godfrey Copley un pròsper terratinent de Sprotbrough, prop de Doncaster, que va ser elegit membre de la Societat el 1691.

Els premiats, que en anys consecutius alternaven entre ciències físiques i biològiques, són elegits pels membres de la Society.