Edinburgh Medal
The Edinburgh Medal is a scientific medal given at the Edinburgh Science Festival since 1989.[1] As a science award, it is usually awarded to scientists, though it has also been awarded to those primarily involved in popularising of science (David Attenborough and S.J. Gould, the latter of whom was a much better writer than he was a scientist) and in 2015 it was bizarrely awarded to Mary Midgley who despite not being a scientist is best known for her self-promoted anti-scientific "philosophy" based mostly on reviewing books by their title, and also previously to James Lovelock, author of the disproven and absurd Gaia hypothesis.
List of Medallists
- 1989 Abdus Salam
- 1990 Stephen J. Gould
- 1991 Jane Goodall
- 1992 Heinz Wolff
- 1993 Wangari Maathai
- 1994 Manuel Pattarroyo
- 1995 Sir John Crofton
- 1996 Richard Levins
- 1997 Amartya Sen
- 1998 Sir David Attenborough
- 1999 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- 2000 Lynn Margulis
- 2001 Sir John Sulston
- 2002 Lise Kingo
- 2003 Wang Sung
- 2004 Steven Rose
- 2005 Colin Blakemore
- 2006 James Lovelock
- 2007 Richard Horton
- 2008 Chris Rapley
- 2009 Jonathan Beckwith
- 2010 Sir Alec Jeffreys
- 2011 Carl Djerassi
- 2012 James Hansen
- 2013 Peter Higgs and CERN
- 2014 Mary Abukutsa-Onyango
- 2015 Mary Midgely
- 2016 Kevin Govender and International Astronomical Union[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/tags/edinburgh-medal
- ↑ http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/news-article/--2016-edinburgh-medal-celebrates-astronomy
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