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
Andrew Wiles
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Sir Andrew John Wiles is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem,
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…revolutionary contributions to the development of electron microscopy of biological materials, enabling their atomic structures to be deduced." 2017 Andrew Wiles "For his beautiful and unexpected proof of Fermat's Last Theorem which is one of the most important mathematical achievements of the 20th century…
Wiles in 2005
Czech stamp from 2000, celebrating Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Andrew Wiles in front of the statue of Pierre de Fermat in Beaumont-de-Lomagne in 1995, Fermat's birthplace in southern France