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The Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Lectureship is a quadrennial award made by the
Royal Society of Edinburgh to recognise original work done by scientists resident in or connected with Scotland.
The award was founded in 1887 by Dr
Robert Halliday Gunning , a Scottish surgeon, entrepreneur and philanthropist who spent much of his life in
Brazil .
Awards by a similar name have also been awarded by the
University of Edinburgh .
Prizewinners
Source:
Royal Society of Edinburgh
1887:
Sir William Thomson , for a series of papers on
Hydrokinetics
1887–1890:
Peter Guthrie Tait , for work done on the
Challenger Expedition
1890–1893:
Alexander Buchan , for his contributions on meteorology
1893–1896:
John Aitken , for his work on the formation and condensation of aqueous vapour
1896–1899: Rev.
Thomas David Anderson , for his discoveries of
new and
variable stars
1900–1904: Sir
James Dewar , for his researches on the
liquefaction of gases
1904–1908:
George Chrystal , for a series of papers on
Seiches
1908–1912:
John Norman Collie , for his contributions to
organic and
inorganic chemistry
1912–1916:
Thomas Muir , for his memoirs on the theory and history of
determinants
1916–1920:
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson , for his studies in connection with
condensation nuclei ,
ionisation of gases and
atmospheric electricity
1920–1924: Sir
Joseph John Thomson , for his discoveries in physics
1924–1928:
E.T. Whittaker , for his contributions to mathematics
1928–1932: Sir
James Walker , for contributions to physical and general chemistry
1932–1936:
Charles Galton Darwin , for his contributions to
mathematical physics
1936–1940:
James Colquhoun Irvine , for contributions to
organic chemistry
1940–1944:
Herbert Westren Turnbull , for his contributions to
mathematical science
1944–1948:
Max Born , for contributions to
theoretical physics
1948–1952:
Alexander Craig Aitken , for his contributions to pure mathematics
1952–1956:
Harry Melville , for contributions to
reaction kinetics and physics and chemistry of high polymers
1956–1960: Sir
Edward Victor Appleton , contributions to ionospheric and
radio physics
1960–1964: Sir
Edmund Hirst , for contributions to the chemistry of
carbohydrates
1964–1968: Sir
William Vallance Douglas Hodge , for contributions to geometry
1968–1972:
Philip Ivor Dee , for contributions to
nuclear physics
1972–1976:
Arthur Erdelyi , for contributions to mathematics especially the theory of special functions
1976–1980:
Charles Kemball , for contributions to the study of
analysis
1984:
Nicholas Kemmer , for his contributions to the theory of
elementary particles
1988: Sir
Michael Atiyah , for his contribution to mathematics
1992:
Peter Ludwig Pauson , for his contributions to the chemistry of diene- and triene-metal carbonyl complexes
1996:
Kathryn A Whaler , for her contribution to the development of mathematical models on the long wave length component of the geomagnetic field
2000:
Angus Macintyre , for his contributions to logic, model theory, algebra, analysis and computer science
2004:
Peter George Bruce ,
[1] for contributions to solid state chemistry
2008:
James Hough , for his work on gravitational waves
See also
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