John Price Wetherill Medal

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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". The John Price Wetherill Medal was last awarded in 1997. As of 1998 all of the endowed medals previously awarded by the Franklin Institute were reorganized as the Benjamin Franklin Medals.

Recipients

1926 Frank Twyman, Wagner Electric Corporation

1927 Carl Ethan Akeley, North East Appliances Inc.

1928 Albert S. Howell, Frank E. Ross

1929 Gustave Fast, William H. Mason, Johannes Ruths

1930 Charles S. Chrisman, William N. Jennings

1931 Thomas Tarvin Gray, Arthur J. Mason, Edwin G. Steele, Walter L. Steele, Henry M. Sutton, Edward C. Wente

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, Francis Ferdinand Lucas, Robert E. Naumburg, William H. Shortt, James Edmond Shrader, 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

1944 Richard C. DuPont, Willem Fredrik Westendorp

1946 Lewis A. Rodert

1947 Kenneth Seymour Moorhead Davidson

1948 Wendell Frederick Hess

1949 Edgar Collins Bain, Thomas L. Fawick

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, Stanley Donald Stookey

1954 William D. Buckingham, 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

1959 Robert B. Aitchison, Archer J. P. Martin, A. T. James, Clarence Zener, R. L. M. Synge

1960 Raimond Castaing, Walter Juda, Victor Vacquier

1961 Albert E. Hitchcock, Percy W. Zimmerman

1962 Ernest Ambler, Raymond Webster Hayward, Dale Dubois Hoppes, Ralph P. Hudson, Stanley Donald Stookey, Chien-Shiung Wu

1963 Daryl M. Chapin, Calvin Souther Fuller, Gerald L. Pearson

1964 Howard Aiken, John Eugene Gunzler, John Kenneth Hulm, Bernd Matthias

1965 Edward Ching-Te Chao, Wendell F. Moore, John Hamilton Reynolds, Frederick D. Rossini, Eugene Shoemaker, Fred Noll Speiss

1966 Howard G. Rogers

1967 Ernest Omar Wollan

1968 Nathan Cohn

1969 George R. Cowan, John J. Douglass, Arnold H. Holtzman

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

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, W. F. Howard, Frank Stern, Philip Stiles

1982 Lawrence A. Harris

1984 Eugene Garfield

1985 Lynn A. Conway, Carver A. Mead

1986 Alvin Van Valkenburg

1987 Dennis H. Klatt

1990 Akito Arima

1991 Peter John Twin

1992 Gerald E. Brown

1994 Stirling A. Colgate

1997 Federico Capasso

References

John Price Wetherill Medal Wikipedia

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