Članak Rumfordova medalja nemojte zamijeniti sa člankom Rumfordova nagrada.
Godine 1796. Benjamin Thompson, poznat kao Grof Rumford, dao je 5.000 $, odvojeno, za Kraljevsko društvo i Američku akademiju umjetnosti i nauka za nagradu (koja bi bila dodjeljivana svake druge godine) za istaknuto istraživanje u područjima toplote ili svjetlosti. Kraljevsko društvo dodjeljuje Rumfordovu medalju; Američka akademija umjetnosti i nauka dodjeljuje Rumfordovu nagradu.
Rumfordova medalja ograničena je na naučnike koji rade u Evropi. Dodjeljuje se u parnim godinama kao priznanje za važna otkrića u području termalnih ili optičkih osobina osobina materije od naučnika koji radi u Evropi. Medalja je posrebrena, a uz nju se dobija novčana nagrada od 1.000 funti.
Dobitnici 18. stoljeće 1800: Benjamin Thompson
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1804: John Leslie 1808: William Murdoch 1810: Étienne Louis Malus 1814: William Charles Wells 1816: Humphry Davy 1818: David Brewster 1824: Augustin-Jean Fresnel 1832: John Frederic Daniell 1834: Macedonio Melloni 1838: James David Forbes 1840: Jean-Baptiste Biot 1842: William Henry Fox Talbot 1846: Michael Faraday 1848: Henri Victor Regnault 1850: François Jean Dominique 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 Jules Cesar Janssen 1878: Alfred Cornu 1880: William Huggins 1882: William de Wiveleslie Abney 1884: Tobias Robertus Thalen 1886: Samuel Pierpont Langley 1888: Pietro Tacchini 1890: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 1892: Nils C. Duner 1894: James Dewar 1896: Wilhelm Röntgen i Philipp Lenard 1898: Oliver Joseph Lodge 1900: Antoine Henri Becquerel
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1902: Charles Algernon Parsons 1904: Ernest Rutherford 1906: Hugh Longbourne Callendar 1908: Hendrik Anton Lorentz 1910: Heinrich Rubens 1912: Kamerlingh Onnes 1914: Lord Rayleigh 1916: William Henry Bragg 1918: Charles Fabry i 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 Williams Wood 1940: Karl Manne Georg 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: Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst 1966: William Penney 1968: Dennis Gábor 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 Hopkins 1986: Denis Rooke 1988: Felix J. Weinberg 1990: Walter Eric Spear 1992: Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley 1994: Andrew Keller 1996: Grenville Turner 1998: Richard Henry Friend 2000: Wilson Sibbett
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2002: David King 2004: Richard Dixon 2006: Jean-Pierre Hansen 2008: Edward Hinds 2010: Gilbert Lonzarich 2012: Roy Taylor 2014: Jeremy Baumberg 2016: Ortwin Hess 2018: Ian Walmsley 2019: Miles Padgett 2020: Patrick Gill 2021: Carlos Frenk 2022: Raymond Pierrehumbert 2023: Polina Bajvelj 2024: Tony Bell 2025: Bernard F. Schutz
Vanjski linkovi Rumford Medal List of recipients of the Rumford Medal
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