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Scientific award
John Price Wetherill
The John Price Wetherill Medal was an award of the
Franklin Institute . It was established with a bequest given by the family of
John Price Wetherill (1844–1906) on April 3, 1917. On June 10, 1925, the Board of Managers voted to create a silver medal, to be awarded for "discovery or invention in the physical sciences" or "new and important combinations of principles or methods already known". The legend on the first medal read: "for discovery, invention, or development in the physical sciences".
[1] The John Price Wetherill Medal was last awarded in 1997.
[2] As of 1998 all of the endowed medals previously awarded by the Franklin Institute were reorganized as the
Benjamin Franklin Medals .
[3]
Recipients
1926
Frank Twyman , Wagner Electric Corporation
[4]
1927
Carl Ethan Akeley , North East Appliances Inc.
[5]
1928
Albert S. Howell ,
Frank E. Ross
[6]
1929
Gustave Fast ,
William H. Mason ,
Johannes Ruths
1930
Charles S. Chrisman ,
William N. Jennings
[7]
1931
Thomas Tarvin Gray ,
Arthur J. Mason ,
Edwin G. Steele , Walter L. Steele,
Henry M. Sutton ,
Edward C. Wente
[8]
1932
Halvor O. Hem ,
Monroe Calculating Machine Company ,
Carl George Munters ,
Baltzar von Platen ,
Frank Wenner
1933
Henry S. Hulbert , Industrial Brownhoist Corporation, Koppers Company,
Francis C. McMath ,
Robert R. McMath
1934
E. Newton Harvey ,
Alfred L. Loomis ,
Johannes B. Ostermeier
1935
F. Hope-Jones ,
[9]
Francis Ferdinand Lucas ,
Robert E. Naumburg ,
[10]
William H. Shortt ,
James Edmond Shrader ,
[11]
Louis Bryant Tuckermann ,
Henry Ellis Warren
1936
Albert L. Marsh
1939
William Albert Hyde
1940
Laurens Hammond ,
Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt ,
Howard L. Krum
1941
Harold Stephen Black
1943
Robert Howland Leach
[12]
1944
Richard C. DuPont ,
Willem Fredrik Westendorp
1946
Lewis A. Rodert
1947
Kenneth S. M. Davidson
1948
Wendell Frederick Hess
1949
Edgar Collins Bain ,
Thomas L. Fawick ,
[13]
Harlan D. Fowler
[14]
1950
Donald William Kerst ,
Sigurd Varian ,
Russell Varian
1951
Samuel C. Collins ,
Reid Berry Gray ,
Gaylord W. Penney
1952
Martin E. Nordberg ,
Harrison P. Hood ,
Albert J. Williams Junior,
1953
Robert H. Dalton ,
[15]
Stanley Donald Stookey
1954
William D. Buckingham ,
[16]
Clarence Nichols Hickman ,
Edwin T. Lorig
1955
Louis M. Moyroud ,
Rene A. Higonnet ,
Jacques Yves Pierre SeJournet
1957
Warren W. Carpenter , Martin Company,
1958
Henry Boot ,
J. Sayers ,
John Randall
[17]
1959
Robert B. Aitchison ,
Archer J. P. Martin ,
Anthony Trafford James ,
Clarence Zener ,
R. L. M. Synge
1960
Raimond Castaing ,
Walter Juda ,
Victor Vacquier
1961
Albert E. Hitchcock ,
Percy W. Zimmerman
[18]
1962
Ernest Ambler ,
Raymond Webster Hayward ,
Dale Dubois Hoppes ,
Ralph P. Hudson ,
Stanley Donald Stookey ,
Chien-Shiung Wu
[19]
1963
Daryl M. Chapin ,
Calvin Souther Fuller ,
Gerald L. Pearson
1964
Howard Aiken ,
John Eugene Kunzler ,
John Kenneth Hulm ,
Bernd Matthias
1965
Edward Ching-Te Chao ,
Wendell F. Moore ,
John Hamilton Reynolds ,
Frederick D. Rossini ,
Eugene Shoemaker ,
Fred Noel Spiess
[20]
1966
Howard G. Rogers ,
Britton Chance
[21]
1967
Ernest Omar Wollan
1968
Nathan Cohn
1969
George R. Cowan , John J. Douglass,
Arnold H. Holtzman
[22]
1970
Paul D. Bartlett
1971
Felix Wankel
1972
Otto Herbert Schmitt
1973
A. R. Howell
1974
Aage Bohr ,
Ben Mottelson
1975
Donald Newton Langenberg ,
William Henry Parker ,
Barry Norman Taylor
[23]
1976
Herbert Blades ,
James W. Cronin ,
Val Fitch
1978
William Klemperer
1979
Elias Burstein
1980
Ralph Alpher ,
Robert Herman
1981
Frank F. Fang ,
Alan B. Fowler ,
Webster E. Howard ,
Frank Stern ,
Philip J. Stiles
[24]
1982
Lawrence A. Harris
[25]
1984
Eugene Garfield
1985
Lynn A. Conway ,
Carver A. Mead
[26]
1986
Alvin Van Valkenburg
[27]
1987
Dennis H. Klatt
1990
Akito Arima
1991
Peter John Twin
1992
Gerald E. Brown
1994
Stirling A. Colgate
1997
Federico Capasso
[2]
See also
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