Royal Society Bakerian Medal

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Royal Society Bakerian Medal
Awarded forFor outstanding contributions to science
Sponsored by The Royal Society
Date1922 (1922)
LocationLondon
CountryUnited Kingdom
First award1775
Website royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/bakerian-lecture/
Precedence
Next (higher) Copley Medal [1]
Equivalent Croonian Medal (biological sciences) [1]
Next (lower) Royal Medal
(Commonwealth or Irish citizens or residents only) [1]
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS, international)

The Bakerian Medal is one of the premier medals [2] of the Royal Society that recognizes exceptional and outstanding science. It comes with a medal award and a prize lecture. The medalist is required to give a lecture on any topic related to physical sciences. It is awarded annually to an individual in a field of the physical sciences, including computer science.

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History

The prize was started in 1774, when Henry Baker left £100 to establish a spoken lecture given by a Fellow of the Royal Society about natural history or experimental philosophy. [3]

Awardees

Source: [4]

21st century

20th century

19th century

18th century

References

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  2. "Premier Medals of the Royal Society, UK".
  3. Turner, Gerard (October 31, 1974). "Henry Baker, F. R. S.: Founder of the Bakerian Lecture" . Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 29 (1): 53–79. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1974.0004 . Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  4. "Bakerian Medal and Lecture | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. November 29, 2024. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
  5. "The full list of 2022 winners".
  6. "The full list of 2021 winners". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
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  14. Munk, W.H.; Scully-Power, P.; Zachariasen, F. (1987). "The Bakerian Lecture, 1986: Ships from Space". Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A. 412 (1843): 231–254. Bibcode:1987RSPSA.412..231M. doi:10.1098/rspa.1987.0087.
  15. "Conference on the variability of the atmosphere and the oceans on time scales of a month to several years". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 67 (6): 801. 1986. Bibcode:1986BAMS...67..785.. doi: 10.1175/1520-0477-67.6.785 .
  16. Thorpe, T. E.; Rodger, J. W. (1894). "Bakerian Lecture: On the Relations between the Viscosity (Internal Friction) of Liquids and Their Chemical Nature". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 55 (331–335): 148–159. doi:10.1098/rspl.1894.0027. JSTOR   115457.