Keith Medal
The Keith Medal was a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.
The Medal was inaugurated in 1827 as a result of a gift from Alexander Keith of Dunottar, the first Treasurer of the Society. It was awarded quadrennially, alternately for a paper published in: Proceedings A (Mathematics) or Transactions (Earth and Environmental Sciences).
The medal is no longer awarded. [1]
Recipients of the Keith Gold Medal
Source (1827 to 1913): Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 19th century
- 1827–29: David Brewster[2], on his Discovery of Two New Immiscible Fluids in the Cavities of certain Minerals
- 1829–31: David Brewster[2], on a New Analysis of Solar Light
- 1831–33: Thomas Graham[3][2], on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases
- 1833–35: James David Forbes[2], on the Refraction and Polarization of Heat
- 1835–37: John Scott Russell[4], on Hydrodynamics
- 1837–39: John Shaw[5], on the Development and Growth of the Salmon
- 1839–41: Not awarded[5]
- 1841–43: James David Forbes[2], on Glaciers
- 1843–45: Not awarded[5]
- 1845–47: Sir Thomas Brisbane[5], for the Makerstoun Observations on Magnetic Phenomena
- 1847–49: Not awarded[5]
- 1849–51: Philip Kelland[4], on General Differentiation, including his more recent Communication on a process of the Differential Calculus, and its application to the solution of certain Differential Equations
- 1851–53: William John Macquorn Rankine[4], on the Mechanical Action of Heat
- 1853–55: Thomas Anderson[2], on the Crystalline Constituents of Opium, and on the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances
- 1855–57: George Boole[5], on the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to Questions of the Combination of Testimonies and Judgments
- 1857–59: Not awarded[5]
- 1859–61: John Allan Broun, on the Horizontal Force of the Earth’s Magnetism, on the Correction of the Bifilar Magnetometer, and on Terrestrial Magnetism generally
- 1861–63: William Thomson[4],on some Kinematical and Dynamical Theorems
- 1863–65: James David Forbes[2], for Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Iron Bars
- 1865–67: Charles Piazzi Smyth[4], on Recent Measures at the Great Pyramid
- 1867–69: Peter Guthrie Tait[4], on the Rotation of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Point
- 1869–71: James Clerk Maxwell[4], on Figures, Frames, and Diagrams of Forces
- 1871–73: Peter Guthrie Tait[4], First Approximation to a Thermo-electric Diagram
- 1873–75: Alexander Crum Brown[2], on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical Relations of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal Ear
- 1875–77: Matthew Forster Heddle[2], on the Rhombohedral Carbonates and on the Felspars of Scotland
- 1877–79: Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin[2], on the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery
- 1879–81: George Chrystal[2], on the Differential Telephone
- 1881–83: Sir Thomas Muir[4], Researches into the Theory of Determinants and Continued Fractions
- 1883–85: John Aitken[6], on the Formation of Small Clear Spaces in Dusty Air
- 1885–87: John Young Buchanan[2],for a series of communications, extending over several years, on subjects connected with Ocean Circulation, Compressibility of Glass, etc.
- 1887–89: Edmund Albert Letts[4], for his papers on the Organic Compounds of Phosphorus
- 1889–91: Robert Traill Omond[4], for his contributions to Meteorological Science
- 1891–93: Sir Thomas Richard Fraser[2], for his papers on Strophanthus hispidus, Strophanthin, and Strophanthidin
- 1893–95: Cargill Gilston Knott[4], for his papers on the Strains produced by Magnetism in Iron and in Nickel
- 1895–97: Sir Thomas Muir[4], for his continued ommunications on Determinants and Allied Questions
- 1897–99: James Burgess[7][2], on the Definite Integral ...
- 20th/21st century
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References
- ^ "Keith Medal". RSE. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- ^ "News and Events". University of Strathclyde. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
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- ^ a b c d e f g "Keith Awards 1827-1890". Cambridge Journals Online. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. .
- ^ "Obituary-James Burgess". Scottish Geographical Magazine. 32: 535–538. doi:10.1080/14702541608541591. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
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- ^ "Professor Alistair Graham FRS". Malacological Society. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Directory 2013/2014" (PDF). RSE. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- ^ "Douglas Samuel Jones" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Professor Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham". Cardiff University. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Professor John Bryce McLeod FRS FRSE (1929 - 2014)". University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
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