Franklin Medal
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, "founded in 1914 by Samuel Insull … awarded by the Franklin Institute for signal and eminent service in science"
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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 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]
References
- Flam, Faye (April 29, 1996). "Five to Get Franklin Institute Honors". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- "Laureates Search". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- "Thomas Alva Edison". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Auguste G. Ferrie". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Paul Dyer Merica". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Henry Clapp Sherman". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Henry Thomas Tizard". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Enrico Fermi". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Robert Robinson". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Wendell Meredith Stanley". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Theodor Von Karman". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "The Svedberg". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Eugene P. Wigner". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "James Chadwick". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Wolfgang Pauli". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "William Francis Gibbs". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Charles Edward Kenneth Mees". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Arne Tiselius". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Frank Whittle". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Hugh Stott Taylor". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Donald Wills Douglas". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Hans Albrecht Bethe". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Roger Adams". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Detlev W. Bronk". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Geoffrey Ingram Taylor". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Glenn T. Seaborg". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Gregory Breit". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Frederick Seitz". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Britton Chance". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Murray Gell-Mann". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Marshall Warren Nirenberg". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "John Archibald Wheeler". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Hannes Alfven". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "George Kistiakowsky". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Theodosius Grigorevich Dobzhansky". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "John Bardeen". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Mahlon B. Hoagland". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Cyril Manton Harris". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Elias J. Corey". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "G. Evelyn Hutchinson". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Avram Goldstein". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Lyman Spitzer Jr". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Stephen W. Hawking". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Cesar Milstein". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Kenneth Geddes Wilson". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Verner E. Suomi". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "George Claude Pimentel". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Benoît Mandelbrot". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Stanley Cohen". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Donald Ervin Knuth". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Hugh E. Huxley". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "David Turnbull". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Frederick Reines". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Gerard 't Hooft". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Richard E. Smalley". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- "Mario Renato Capecchi". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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