John Price Wetherill Medal
The John Price Wetherill Medal was an award of the Franklin Institute. It was established with a bequest given by the family of (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 , Wagner Electric Corporation[4]
- 1927 Carl Ethan Akeley, North East Appliances Inc.[5]
- 1928 , Frank E. Ross[6]
- 1929 , William H. Mason,
- 1930 , William N. Jennings[7]
- 1931 ,[8] , , Walter L. Steele, , [9]
- 1932 , Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Carl George Munters, Baltzar von Platen,
- 1933 , Industrial Brownhoist Corporation, Koppers Company, Francis C. McMath, Robert R. McMath
- 1934 E. Newton Harvey, Alfred L. Loomis,
- 1935 F. Hope-Jones,[10] , ,[11] William H. Shortt, ,[12] Louis Bryant Tuckermann, Henry Ellis Warren
- 1936 Albert L. Marsh
- 1939
- 1940 Laurens Hammond, Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt,
- 1941 Harold Stephen Black
- 1943 [13]
- 1944 Richard C. DuPont,
- 1946 Lewis A. Rodert
- 1947 Kenneth S. M. Davidson
- 1948
- 1949 Edgar Collins Bain, ,[14] Harlan D. Fowler[15]
- 1950 Donald William Kerst, Sigurd Varian, Russell Varian
- 1951 Samuel C. Collins, ,
- 1952 , , Junior,
- 1953 ,[16] Stanley Donald Stookey
- 1954 ,[17] Clarence Nichols Hickman,
- 1955 Louis M. Moyroud, Rene A. Higonnet,
- 1957 , Martin Company,
- 1958 Henry Boot, J. Sayers, John Randall[18]
- 1959 , Archer J. P. Martin, , Clarence Zener, R. L. M. Synge
- 1960 , , Victor Vacquier
- 1961 , [19]
- 1962 Ernest Ambler, , , , Stanley Donald Stookey, Chien-Shiung Wu[20]
- 1963 Daryl M. Chapin, Calvin Souther Fuller, Gerald L. Pearson
- 1964 Howard Aiken, , John Kenneth Hulm, Bernd Matthias
- 1965 Edward Ching-Te Chao, Wendell F. Moore, John Hamilton Reynolds, Frederick D. Rossini, Eugene Shoemaker, Fred Noel Spiess[21]
- 1966 , Britton Chance[22]
- 1967 Ernest Omar Wollan
- 1968 Nathan Cohn
- 1969 George R. Cowan, John J. Douglass, [23]
- 1970 Paul D. Bartlett
- 1971 Felix Wankel
- 1972 Otto Herbert Schmitt
- 1973
- 1974 Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson
- 1975 Donald Newton Langenberg, William Henry Parker, [24]
- 1976 , James W. Cronin, Val Fitch
- 1978 William Klemperer
- 1979 Elias Burstein
- 1980 Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman
- 1981 Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, , , [25]
- 1982 [26]
- 1984 Eugene Garfield
- 1985 Lynn A. Conway, Carver A. Mead[27]
- 1986 Alvin Van Valkenburg[28]
- 1987 Dennis H. Klatt
- 1990 Akito Arima
- 1991
- 1992 Gerald E. Brown
- 1994 Stirling A. Colgate
- 1997 Federico Capasso[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Year Book - Franklin Institute. Philadelphia, Pa.: Franklin Institute. 1921. p. 57. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Federico Capasso". The Franklin Institute. 2014-01-15. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Awards Program History". Franklin Institute. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ Year Book - Franklin Institute. Philadelphia, Pa.: Franklin Institute. 1919. p. 92. Retrieved 4 June 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 4 June 2015.
- ^ "The Case Files: William Jennings, Unlike Any Other". The Franklin Institute. 2014-01-14. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Thomas Tarvin Gray". Find A Grave. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Edwin G. Steele / Death Claims Manufacturer, Award Winner". The Dallas Morning News. September 4, 1938. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (1998). Biographical dictionary of the history of technology (1st ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 1106–1107. ISBN 978-0415193993. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Boon for the Blind". Urbana Daily Courier. 13 June 1935. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Inventor wins medal" (PDF). The Philadelphia Inquirer. May 3, 1935. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "R. H. Leach, 84, Southport, Dies". The Bridgeport Post. January 27, 1963. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "FAWICK, THOMAS L." The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Fowler, Harlan D., 1895-1982". snaccooperative.org. SNAC. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "Personals" (PDF). Engineering and Science. 17 (3): 40. 1953. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
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- ^ Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (1998). "Boot, Henry Albert Howard". Biographical dictionary of the history of technology (1st ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415193993. Retrieved 5 June 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. 2015-04-28. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Obituary Notice Pioneer in Ocean Technology: Fred N. Spiess". Scripps Institution of Oceanography. UC San Diego. Retrieved September 11, 2006.
- ^ "Britton Chance, 1913-2010". The Pauling Blog. 2010-12-16. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Jones, Stacy V. (June 20, 1964). "Explosives used to join metals". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 2015.
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