Franklin Medal [SEP] named after
Franklin Medal
The Franklin Medal was a science award presented from 1915 until 1997 by the Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was founded in 1914 by Samuel Insull.
The Franklin Medal was the most prestigious of the various awards presented by the Franklin Institute. Together with other historical awards, it was merged into the Benjamin Franklin Medal, initiated in 1998.
Laureates.
Recipients are listed in a database on The Franklin Institute website.
External links.
- The Franklin Institute Awards
by the European Physical Society for outstanding contributions in plasma physics, is named after him. The asteroid 1778 Alfvén is named in his honour.
Awards and honours Awards.
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1967)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1970) for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
- Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute (1971)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1971)
- Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in