Copley Medal
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The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science". The award alternates between the
The Copley Medal awarded to George Stokes in 1893 (obverse)
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Ozias Humphry John Belchier RCSSC P 16 Hunterian Museum
Stephen Hales Mezzotint
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the pulsar. This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physi
Copley Medal
…Desaguliers has won the medal the most often, winning three times, in 1734, 1736 and 1741. In 1976, Dorothy Hodgkin became the first female recipient; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in 2021, became the second…
Bell Burnell in 2009
Jocelyn Bell, June 1967
Chart on which Bell Burnell first recognised evidence of a pulsar, exhibited at Cambridge University Library
Composite Optical/X-ray image of the Crab Nebula, showing synchrotron emission in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula, powered by injection of magnetic fields and particles from the central pulsar