The Copley medal first was awarded in 1731 by the Royal Society, Britain's elite scientific academy. Previous recipients have included Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, ...

A Cambridge scientist is awarded the Copley Medal, believed to be the world's oldest scientific prize.

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who in 1984 discovered a method of showing the variation in the DNA of individuals, will receive the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, which has been awarded to ...

The Copley medal first was awarded in 1731 by the Royal Society, Britain's elite scientific academy. Previous recipients have included Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, ...

COPLEY MEDAL THE COPLEY MEDAL has been awarded to Prof. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN. The establishment of definite laws of heredity, and the discovery of the mechanism, the gene, by which hereditary ...

The Copley medal was first given out by the Royal Society in 1731, making it 170 years pioneer to the first Nobel Prize award. The famed medal is awarded to individuals, ...

The Copley medal was first awarded in 1731, 170 years before the first Nobel Prize was handed out. The accolade has previously been won by Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Although Henry did not receive the award, the Copley Medal is one of the most prestigious scientific awards in the world and to be nominated is a great honor. In 1846, Henry is appointed the first ...

COPLEY MEDAL THE Copley Medal has been awarded to Sir Thomas Lewis. Lewis's life's work, still in vigorous progress but for interruption by war duties and war conditions, has been the application ...