Howard N. Potts Medal

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The Howard N. Potts Medal was one of The Franklin Institute Awards for science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named for . The first Howard N. Potts Medal was awarded in 1911 but was merged in 1991, along with other Franklin Institute historical awards, into the Benjamin Franklin Medal. [1]

Laureates[]

Following people received the Howard N. Potts Medal:[2][3]

  • 1911 - William Weber Coblentz (Physics)
  • 1912 - William Arthur Bone (Chemistry)
  • 1913 - (Earth Science)
  • 1913 - Thomas Lyttleton Lyon (Earth Science) for "Plants and Relation to Nitrate in Soils"
  • 1914 - Ralph Modjeski (Engineering)
  • 1916 - William Jackson Humphreys (Physics)
  • 1916 - William Spencer Murray (Engineering)
  • 1917 - (Life Science)
  • 1918 - (Engineering)
  • 1918 - Arthur Edwin Kennelly (Engineering)
  • 1918 - Louis Vessot King (Engineering)
  • 1919 - (Engineering)
  • 1919 - (Chemistry)
  • 1919 - (Engineering)
  • 1920 - (Invention)
  • 1920 - Edward P. Bullard, Jr. (Engineering)
  • 1921 - Elmer Verner McCollum (Life Science)
  • 1921 - (Engineering)
  • 1922 - Ernest George Coker (Physics)
  • 1922 - (Chemistry)
  • 1922 - (Chemistry)
  • 1922 - (Chemistry)
  • 1923 - Albert Wallace Hull (Chemistry) for x-ray crystallography
  • 1924 - John August Anderson (Engineering)
  • 1924 - (Engineering)
  • 1925 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Physics)
  • 1926 - William David Coolidge (Physics)
  • 1926 - (Chemistry)
  • 1927 - (Physics)
  • 1927 - Marion Eppley (Engineering)
  • 1928 - (Chemistry)
  • 1928 - (Chemistry)
  • 1928 - (Engineering)
  • 1931 - (Engineering)
  • 1932 - George Paget Thomson (Physics)
  • 1933 - Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Engineering)
  • 1934 - (Engineering)
  • 1936 - Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (Engineering)
  • 1937 - (Engineering)
  • 1938 - (Engineering)
  • 1939 - (Engineering)
  • 1939 - (Engineering)
  • 1941 - Harold Eugene Edgerton (Engineering)
  • 1942 - Jesse Wakefield Beams (Physics)
  • 1942 - (Engineering)
  • 1942 - Bernard Lyot (Physics)
  • 1943 - (Life Science)
  • 1943 - Paul Renno Heyl (Physics)
  • 1945 - Edwin Albert Link (Engineering)
  • 1946 - Ira Sprague Bowen (Physics)
  • 1946 - Bengt Edlen (Physics)
  • 1946 - Sanford Alexander Moss (Engineering)
  • 1947 - Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Engineering)
  • 1948 - Eugene Jules Houdry (Chemistry)
  • 1948 - (Engineering)
  • 1948 - (Engineering)
  • 1949 - J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (Computer and Cognitive Science)
  • 1949 - (Engineering)
  • 1949 - John William Mauchly (Computer and Cognitive Science)
  • 1950 - Merle Anthony Tuve (Engineering)
  • 1951 - (Engineering)
  • 1951 - (Physics) [4]
  • 1951 - Eric Leighton Holmes (Chemistry)
  • 1956 - Edwin H. Land (Engineering)
  • 1958 - (Engineering)
  • 1958 - (Engineering)
  • 1959 - George W. Morey (Engineering)
  • 1960 - Charles Stark Draper (Engineering)
  • 1962 - (Engineering)
  • 1964 - Erwin Wilhelm Müller (Engineering)
  • 1965 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell (Engineering)
  • 1966 - (Chemistry)
  • 1967 - John Louis Moll (Engineering)
  • 1968 - Heinrich Focke (Engineering)
  • 1969 - Albert Ghiorso (Chemistry)
  • 1969 - Charles P. Ginsburg (Engineering)
  • 1970 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau (Life Science)
  • 1971 - William David McElroy (Life Science)
  • 1972 - Jacques Ernest Piccard (Engineering)
  • 1973 - Charles Howard Vollum (Engineering)
  • 1974 - Jay Wright Forrester (Engineering)
  • 1975 - LeGrand G. Van Uitert (Engineering)
  • 1976 - Stephanie L. Kwolek (Engineering)
  • 1976 - (Engineering)
  • 1977 - Godfrey N. Hounsfield (Life Science)
  • 1978 - Michael Szwarc (Chemistry)
  • 1979 - Seymour Roger Cray (Computer and Cognitive Science)
  • 1979 - Richard Travis Whitcomb (Engineering)
  • 1980 - (Physics)
  • 1981 - August Uno Lamm (Engineering)
  • 1982 - Charles Gilbert Overberger (Chemistry)
  • 1983 - (Life Science)
  • 1983 - Paul Christian Lauterbur (Physics)
  • 1985 - William Cochran (Life Science)
  • 1986 - Martin David Kruskal (Physics)
  • 1986 - Norman J. Zabusky (Physics)
  • 1988 - (Engineering)
  • 1989 - Sir Charles William Oatley (Physics)
  • 1991 - Richard E. Morley (Computer and Cognitive Science)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Awards Program History". Franklin Institute. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ "Franklin Laureate Database - Howard N. Potts Medal Laureates". Franklin Institute. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
  3. ^ "Howard N. Potts Medal winners". Franklin Institute. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  4. ^ "Potts Medal Goes to C.M. Foust". New York Times. September 16, 1951. Retrieved 2015-02-27. The Franklin Institute announced today that a Howard N. Potts had been awarded to Clifford M. Foust ... high voltage surge phenomena ...
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