Franklin Medal
The Franklin Medal was a scholarly and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, PA, USA. In 1998, it became known as the Benjamin Franklin Medal
Laureates
- 1915 - Thomas Alva Edison (Engineering)
- 1915 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Physics)
- 1916 - John J. Carty (Engineering)
- 1916 - Theodore William Richards (Chemistry)
- 1917 - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Physics)
- 1917 - David Watson Taylor (Engineering)
- 1918 - Guglielmo Marconi (Engineering)
- 1918 - Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (Physics)
- 1919 - James Dewar (Physics)
- 1919 - George Owen Squier (Engineering)
- 1920 - Svante August Arrhenius (Chemistry)
- 1920 - Charles A. Parsons (Engineering)
- 1921 - Charles Fabry (Physics)
- 1921 - Frank Julian Sprague (Engineering)
- 1922 - Ralph Modjeski (Engineering)
- 1922 - Joseph John Thomson (Physics)
- 1923 - Auguste G. Ferrie (Engineering/Computer and Cognitive Science)
- 1923 - Albert A. Michelson (Physics)
- 1924 - Ernest Rutherford (Chemistry)
- 1924 - Edward Weston (Engineering)
- 1925 - Elihu Thomson (Engineering)
- 1925 - Pieter Zeeman (Physics)
- 1926 - Niels Bohr (Physics)
- 1926 - Samuel Rea (Engineering)
- 1927 - George Ellery Hale (Physics)
- 1927 - Max Planck (Physics)
- 1928 - Charles F. Brush (Engineering)
- 1928 - Walther Nernst (Chemistry)
- 1929 - Emile Berliner (Engineering)
- 1929 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Physics)
- 1930 - William H. Bragg (Physics)
- 1930 - John Frank Stevens (Engineering)
- 1931 - James Hopwood Jeans (Physics)
- 1931 - Willis Rodney Whitney (Engineering)
- 1932 - Philipp Lenard (Physics)
- 1932 - Ambrose Swasey (Engineering)
- 1933 - Paul Sabatier (Chemistry)
- 1933 - Orville Wright (Engineering)
- 1934 - Irving Langmuir (Chemistry)
- 1934 - Henry Norris Russell (Physics)
- 1935 - Albert Einstein (Physics)
- 1935 - John Ambrose Fleming (Engineering)
- 1936 - Frank Baldwin Jewett (Engineering)
- 1936 - Charles Franklin Kettering (Engineering)
- 1937 - Peter Debye (Chemistry)
- 1937 - Robert Andrews Millikan (Physics)
- 1938 - William Frederick Durand (Engineering)
- 1938 - Charles August Kraus (Chemistry)
- 1939 - Edwin Hubble (Physics)
- 1939 - Albert Sauveur (Engineering)
- 1940 - Leo Hendrick Baekeland (Engineering)
- 1940 - Arthur Holly Compton (Physics)
- 1941 - Edwin H. Armstrong (Engineering)
- 1941 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (Physics)
- 1942 - Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (Engineering)
- 1942 - Paul Dyer Merica (Engineering)
- 1943 - George Washington Pierce (Engineering)
- 1943 - Harold Clayton Urey (Physics)
- 1944 - William David Coolidge (Engineering)
- 1944 - Peter Kapitza (Physics)
- 1945 - Harlow Shapley (Physics)
- 1946 - Henry Clapp Sherman (Life Science)
- 1946 - Henry Thomas Tizard (Engineering)
- 1947 - Enrico Fermi (Physics)
- 1947 - Robert Robinson (Chemistry)
- 1948 - Wendell Meredith Stanley (Life Science)
- 1948 - Theodor Von Karman (Engineering)
- 1949 - The Svedberg (Life Science)
- 1950 - Eugene P. Wigner (Physics)
- 1951 - James Chadwick (Physics)
- 1952 - Wolfgang Pauli (Physics)
- 1953 - William Francis Gibbs (Engineering)
- 1954 - Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (Engineering)
- 1955 - Arne Tiselius (Life Science)
- 1956 - Frank Whittle (Engineering)
- 1957 - Hugh Stott Taylor (Chemistry)
- 1958 - Donald Wills Douglas (Engineering)
- 1959 - Hans Albrecht Bethe (Physics)
- 1960 - Roger Adams (Engineering)
- 1961 - Detlev W. Bronk (Life Science)
- 1962 - Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Life Science)
- 1963 - Glenn T. Seaborg (Physics)
- 1964 - Gregory Breit (Physics)
- 1965 - Frederick Seitz (Engineering)
- 1966 - Britton Chance (Life Science)
- 1967 - Murray Gell-Mann (Physics)
- 1968 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg (Life Science)
- 1969 - John Archibald Wheeler (Physics)
- 1970 - Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky (Physics)
- 1971 - Hannes Alfvén (Physics)
- 1972 - George B. Kistiakowsky (Chemistry)
- 1973 - Theodosius Grigorevich Dobzhansky (Life Science)
- 1974 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov (Physics)
- 1975 - John Bardeen (Physics)
- 1976 - Mahlon B. Hoagland (Life Science)
- 1977 - Cyril Manton Harris (Engineering)
- 1978 - Elias J. Corey (Chemistry)
- 1979 - G. Evelyn Hutchinson (Life Science)
- 1980 - Avram Goldstein (Life Science)
- 1980 - Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (Physics)
- 1981 - Stephen W. Hawking (Physics)
- 1982 - César Milstein (Life Science)
- 1982 - Kenneth Geddes Wilson (Physics)
- 1984 - Verner E. Suomi (Engineering)
- 1985 - George Claude Pimentel (Physics)
- 1986 - Benoît Mandelbrot (Physics)
- 1987 - Stanley Cohen (Life Science)
- 1988 - Donald Ervin Knuth (Computer and Cognitive Science)
- 1990 - Hugh E. Huxley (Life Science)
- 1990 - David Turnbull (Physics)
- 1992 - Frederick Reines (Physics)
- 1995 - Gerard 't Hooft (Physics)
- 1996 - Richard E. Smalley (Chemistry)
- 1997 - Mario Renato Capecchi (Life Science)