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The Franklin Medal, "founded in 1914 by Samuel Insull … awarded by the Franklin Institute for signal and eminent service in science"
Presentation of the first Franklin Medal in Philadelphia in 1915. Thomas Edison and Mina Edison with (standing), D.R.B. Owens, J (2287c3af58e542258439dd02790c0303).jpg
Presentation of the first Franklin Medal in Philadelphia on May 19, 1915. Front row: Samuel Insull, Walton Clark, recipient Thomas Edison and his wife Mina Miller, Chevalier Van Rappard, accepting the award for Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Back row: Robert Bowie Owens, John J. Carty, Frank J. Sprague, William Stanley, R. Tait McKenzie.

The Franklin Medal was a science award presented from 1915 until 1997 by the Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was founded in 1914 by Samuel Insull.

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The Franklin Medal was the most prestigious of the various awards presented by the Franklin Institute. [1] Together with other historical awards, it was merged into the Benjamin Franklin Medal, initiated in 1998. [2]

Laureates

Recipients are listed in a database on The Franklin Institute website. [2]

YearCountryRecipientDisciplineNotes
1915Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Thomas Edison Engineering [3]
1915Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Physics
1916Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States John J. Carty Engineering
1916Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Theodore William Richards Chemistry
1917Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Hendrik Lorentz Physics
1917Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States David W. Taylor Engineering
1918Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Guglielmo Marconi Engineering
1918Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Physics
1919Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain James Dewar Physics
1919Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States George Owen Squier Engineering
1920Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Svante Arrhenius Chemistry
1920Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Charles Algernon Parsons Engineering
1921Flag of France.svg  France Charles Fabry Physics
1921Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Frank J. Sprague Engineering
1921Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Ralph Modjeski Engineering
1922Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain J. J. Thomson Physics
1923Flag of France.svg  France Gustave-Auguste Ferrié Engineering/Computer and Cognitive Science [4]
1923Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Albert A. Michelson Physics
1924Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Ernest Rutherford Chemistry
1924Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Edward Weston Engineering
1925Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Elihu Thomson Engineering
1925Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Pieter Zeeman Physics
1926Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Niels Bohr Physics
1926Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Samuel Rea Engineering
1927Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States George Ellery Hale Physics
1927Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany Max Planck Physics
1928Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Charles F. Brush Engineering
1928Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany Walther Nernst Chemistry
1929Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Emile Berliner Engineering
1929Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Physics
1930Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain William Henry Bragg Physics
1930Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States John Frank Stevens Engineering
1931Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain James Hopwood Jeans Physics
1931Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Willis R. Whitney Engineering
1932Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany Philipp Lenard Physics
1932Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Ambrose Swasey Engineering
1933Flag of France.svg  France Paul Sabatier Chemistry
1933Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Orville Wright Engineering
1934Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Irving Langmuir Chemistry
1934Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Henry Norris Russell Physics
1935Flag of Germany (1935-1945).svg  Germany Albert Einstein Physics
1935Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain John Ambrose Fleming Engineering
1936Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Frank B. Jewett Engineering
1936Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Charles F. Kettering Engineering
1937Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Peter Debye Chemistry
1937Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Robert Andrews Millikan Physics
1938Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States William F. Durand Engineering
1938Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Charles A. Kraus Chemistry
1939Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Edwin Hubble Physics
1939Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Albert Sauveur Engineering
1940Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Leo Baekeland Engineering
1940Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Arthur Compton Physics
1941Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Edwin H. Armstrong Engineering
1941British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India C. V. Raman Physics [5]
1942Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Engineering
1942Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Paul Dyer Merica Engineering [6]
1943Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States G. W. Pierce Engineering
1943Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Harold Urey Physics
1944Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States William D. Coolidge Engineering
1944Flag of the USSR (1936-1955).svg  Soviet Union Peter Kapitza Physics
1945Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Harlow Shapley Physics
1946Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Henry Clapp Sherman Life Science [7]
1946Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Henry Tizard Engineering [8]
1946Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Enrico Fermi Physics [9]
1947Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Robert Robinson Chemistry [10]
1948Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Wendell Meredith Stanley Life Science [11]
1948Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Theodore von Kármán Engineering [12]
1949Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Theodor Svedberg Life Science [13]
1950Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Eugene Wigner Physics [14]
1951Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain James Chadwick Physics [15]
1952Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Wolfgang Pauli Physics [16]
1953Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States William Francis Gibbs Engineering [17]
1954Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Kenneth Mees Engineering [18]
1955Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Arne Tiselius Life Science [19]
1956Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Frank Whittle Engineering [20]
1957Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Hugh Stott Taylor Chemistry [21]
1958Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States Donald Wills Douglas Engineering [22]
1959Flag of the United States (1959-1960).svg  United States Hans Bethe Physics [23]
1960Flag of the United States.svg  United States Roger Adams Engineering [24]
1961Flag of the United States.svg  United States Detlev Bronk Life Science [25]
1962Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain G. I. Taylor Life Science [26]
1963Flag of the United States.svg  United States Glenn T. Seaborg Physics [27]
1964Flag of the United States.svg  United States Gregory Breit Physics [28]
1965Flag of the United States.svg  United States Frederick Seitz Engineering [29]
1966Flag of the United States.svg  United States Britton Chance Life Science [30]
1967Flag of the United States.svg  United States Murray Gell-Mann Physics [31]
1968Flag of the United States.svg  United States Marshall Warren Nirenberg Life Science [32]
1969Flag of the United States.svg  United States John Archibald Wheeler Physics [33]
1970Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky Physics [34]
1971Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Hannes Alfvén Physics [35]
1972Flag of the United States.svg  United States George Kistiakowsky Chemistry [36]
1973Flag of the United States.svg  United States Theodosius Dobzhansky Life Science [37]
1974Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union Nikolay Bogolyubov Physics [38]
1975Flag of the United States.svg  United States John Bardeen Physics [39]
1976Flag of the United States.svg  United States Mahlon Hoagland Life Science [40]
1977Flag of the United States.svg  United States Cyril M. Harris Engineering [41]
1978Flag of the United States.svg  United States Elias James Corey Chemistry [42]
1979Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain G. Evelyn Hutchinson Life Science [43]
1980Flag of the United States.svg  United States Avram Goldstein Life Science [44]
1980Flag of the United States.svg  United States Lyman Spitzer Physics [45]
1981Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Stephen Hawking Physics [46]
1982Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina César Milstein Life Science [47]
1982Flag of the United States.svg  United States Kenneth G. Wilson Physics [48]
1984Flag of the United States.svg  United States Verner E. Suomi Engineering [49]
1985Flag of the United States.svg  United States George C. Pimentel Physics [50]
1986Flag of the United States.svg  United States Benoît Mandelbrot Physics [51]
1987Flag of the United States.svg  United States Stanley Cohen Life Science [52]
1988Flag of the United States.svg  United States Donald Knuth Computer and Cognitive Science [53]
1990Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Hugh Huxley Life Science [54]
1990Flag of the United States.svg  United States David Turnbull Physics [55]
1992Flag of the United States.svg  United States Frederick Reines Physics [56]
1995Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Gerard 't Hooft Physics [57]
1996Flag of the United States.svg  United States Richard Smalley Chemistry [58]
1997Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Mario Capecchi Life Science [59]
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  8. "Henry Thomas Tizard". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  13. "The Svedberg". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  14. "Eugene P. Wigner". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  15. "James Chadwick". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  16. "Wolfgang Pauli". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  17. "William Francis Gibbs". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  18. "Charles Edward Kenneth Mees". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  19. "Arne Tiselius". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  22. "Donald Wills Douglas". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  24. "Roger Adams". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  26. "Geoffrey Ingram Taylor". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  28. "Gregory Breit". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  32. "Marshall Warren Nirenberg". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  33. "John Archibald Wheeler". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  35. "Hannes Alfven". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  41. "Cyril Manton Harris". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  42. "Elias J. Corey". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  44. "Avram Goldstein". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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  46. "Stephen W. Hawking". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  47. "Cesar Milstein". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  48. "Kenneth Geddes Wilson". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  49. "Verner E. Suomi". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  50. "George Claude Pimentel". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  51. "Benoît Mandelbrot". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  52. "Stanley Cohen". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  53. "Donald Ervin Knuth". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  54. "Hugh E. Huxley". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  55. "David Turnbull". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  56. "Frederick Reines". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  57. "Gerard 't Hooft". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  58. "Richard E. Smalley". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  59. "Mario Renato Capecchi". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  60. "Nader Engheta". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2023-01-28.