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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Year Book - Franklin Institute. Philadelphia, Pa.: Franklin Institute. 1921. p. 57. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^ a b "Federico Capasso". The Franklin Institute. January 15, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Awards Program History". Franklin Institute. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Year Book - Franklin Institute. Philadelphia, Pa.: Franklin Institute. 1919. p. 92. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^ Firth, Margaret A., ed. (1956). Handbook of scientific and technical awards in the United States and Canada, 1900-1952. New York: Special Libraries Association. p. 292.
- ^ Year Book - Franklin Institute. Philadelphia, Pa.: Franklin Institute. 1928. p. 78. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^ "The Case Files: William Jennings, Unlike Any Other". The Franklin Institute. January 14, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Edwin G. Steele / Death Claims Manufacturer, Award Winner". The Dallas Morning News. September 4, 1938. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (1998). Biographical dictionary of the history of technology (1st ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 1106–1107. ISBN 978-0415193993. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Boon for the Blind". Urbana Daily Courier. June 13, 1935. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Inventor wins medal" (PDF). The Philadelphia Inquirer. May 3, 1935. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "R. H. Leach, 84, Southport, Dies". The Bridgeport Post. January 27, 1963. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "FAWICK, THOMAS L." The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
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- ^ "Personals" (PDF). Engineering and Science. 17 (3): 40. 1953. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "William D. Buckingham Papers". Kelvin Smith Library. Case Western Reserve University.
- ^ Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (1998). "Boot, Henry Albert Howard". Biographical dictionary of the history of technology (1st ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415193993. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Wetherill Medals". Chem. Eng. News. 39 (32): 74–79, 91. August 7, 1961. doi:10.1021/cen-v039n032.p074.
- ^ "The Fall of Parity". National Institute of Standards and Technology. April 28, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Obituary Notice Pioneer in Ocean Technology: Fred N. Spiess". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. UC San Diego. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved September 11, 2006.
- ^ "Britton Chance, 1913-2010". The Pauling Blog. December 16, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- ^ Jones, Stacy V. (June 20, 1964). "Explosives used to join metals". The New York Times. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Langenberg, Donald (1972). "One Researcher's Personal Account" (PDF). Adventures in Physics. Princeton, NJ: World Science Communications.
- ^ Stern, F. (April 4, 1983). "Citation Classic - PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACE INVERSION-LAYERS IN THE ELECTRIC QUANTUM LIMIT CC/PHYS CHEM EARTH" (PDF). Citation Classic Commentaries. 14: 22. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
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- ^ "Franklin Institute Honors Eight Physicists". Physics Today. 38 (7): 84. 1985. doi:10.1063/1.2814644.
- ^ Benson, William E.; Sclar, Charles B. (1995). "Memorial of Alvin Van Valkenburg, Jr. 1913-1991" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 80: 191–193. Retrieved June 5, 2015.