thumb|Copleymedaljen tildelt Joseph Lister i 1902. Copleymedaljen er en pris givet af Royal Society of London for fremragende præstationer i forskning inden for enhver gren af naturvidenskaben, vekslende mellem de fysiske videnskaber og de biologiske videnskaber. Medaljen, der uddeles årligt, er den ældste Royal Society-medalje, der stadig uddeles, idet den første gang blev givet i 1731 til Stephen Gray. Den første kvinde, der fik medaljen var Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin i 1976.
Modtagere af medaljen right|thumb|upright|John Theophilus Desaguliers, som vandt medaljen tre gange (1734, 36 og 41), hvilket er flere gange end nogen anden.
1731–1750 År Portræt Navn Begrundelse Note 1731 75px Stephen Gray 1732 75px Stephen Gray 1734 75px John Theophilus Desaguliers 1736 John Theophilus Desaguliers 1737 75px John Belchier 1738 75px James Valoue 1739 75px Stephen Hales 1740 75px Alexander Stuart 1741 75px John Theophilus Desaguliers 1742 75px Christopher Middleton 1743 75px Abraham Trembley 1744 75px Henry Baker 1745 75px William Watson 1746 75px Benjamin Robins 1747 75px Gowin Knight 1748 75px James Bradley 1749 75px John Harrison 1750 75px George Edwards
1751–1800 År Portræt Navn Begrundelse Note 1751 75px John Canton 1752 75px John Pringle 1753 75px Benjamin Franklin 1754 75px William Lewis 1755 75px John Huxham 1757 75px Charles Cavendish 1758 75px John Dollond 1759 75px John Smeaton 1760 75px Benjamin Wilson 1764 75px John Canton 1766 75px William Brownrigg, Edward Delaval og Henry Cavendish 1767 75px John Ellis 1768 75px Peter Woulfe 1769 75px William Hewson 1770 75px William Hamilton 1771 75px Matthew Raper 1772 75px Joseph Priestley 1773 75px John Walsh 1775 75px Nevil Maskelyne 1776 75px James Cook 1777 75px John Mudge 1778 75px Charles Hutton 1780 75px Samuel Vince 1781 75px William Herschel 1782 75px Richard Kirwan 1783 75px John Goodricke og Thomas Hutchins 1784 75px Edward Waring 1785 75px William Roy 1787 75px John Hunter 1788 75px Charles Blagden 1789 75px William Morgan 1791 75px James Rennell og Jean-André Deluc 1792 75px Benjamin Thompson 1794 75px Alessandro Volta 1795 75px Jesse Ramsden 1796 75px George Atwood 1798 75px George Shuckburgh-Evelyn og Charles Hatchett 1799 75px John Hellins 1800 75px Edward Charles Howard
1801–1850 År Portræt Navn Begrundelse Note 1801 75px Astley Cooper 1802 75px William Hyde Wollaston 1803 75px Richard Chenevix 1804 75px Smithson Tennant 1805 75px Humphry Davy 1806 75px Thomas Andrew Knight 1807 75px Everard Home 1808 75px William Henry 1809 75px Edward Troughton 1811 75px Benjamin Collins Brodie 1813 75px William Thomas Brande 1814 75px James Ivory 1815 75px David Brewster 1817 75px Henry Kater 1818 75px Robert Seppings 1820 75px Hans Christian Ørsted 1821 75px Edward Sabine og John Herschel 1822 75px William Buckland 1823 75px John Pond 1824 75px John Brinkley 1825 75px François Arago og Peter Barlow 1826 75px James South 1827 75px William Prout og Henry Foster 1831 75px George Biddell Airy 1832 75px Michael Faraday og Siméon Denis Poisson 1834 75px Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana 1835 75px William Snow Harris 1836 75px Jöns Jacob Berzelius og Francis Kiernan 1837 75px75px Antoine César Becquerel og John Frederic Daniell 1838 75px75px Carl Friedrich Gauss og Michael Faraday 1839 75px Robert Brown 1840 75px75px Justus von Liebig og Jacques Charles François Sturm 1841 75px Georg Ohm 1842 75px James MacCullagh 1843 75px Jean-Baptiste Dumas 1844 75px Carlo Matteucci 1845 75px Theodor Schwann 1846 75px Urbain Le Verrier 1847 75px John Herschel 1848 75px John Couch Adams 1849 75px Roderick Murchison 1850 75px Peter Andreas Hansen
1851–1900 År Portræt Navn Begrundelse Note 1851 75px Richard Owen 1852 75px Alexander von Humboldt 1853 75px Heinrich Wilhelm Dove 1854 75px Johannes Peter Müller 1855 75px Léon Foucault 1856 75px Henri Milne-Edwards 1857 75px Michel Eugène Chevreul 1858 75px Charles Lyell 1859 75px Wilhelm Eduard Weber 1860 75px Robert Bunsen 1861 75px Louis Agassiz 1862 75px Thomas Graham 1863 75px Adam Sedgwick 1864 75px Charles Darwin 1865 75px Michel Chasles 1866 75px Julius Plücker 1867 75px Karl Ernst von Baer 1868 75px Charles Wheatstone 1869 75px Henri Victor Regnault 1870 75px James Prescott Joule 1871 75px Julius Robert von Mayer 1872 75px Friedrich Wöhler 1873 75px Hermann von Helmholtz 1874 75px Louis Pasteur 1875 75px August Wilhelm von Hofmann 1876 75px Claude Bernard 1877 75px James Dwight Dana 1878 75px Jean-Baptiste Boussingault 1879 75px Rudolf Clausius 1880 75px James Joseph Sylvester 1881 75px Charles-Adolphe Wurtz 1882 75px Arthur Cayley 1883 75px William Thomson 1884 75px Carl Ludwig 1885 75px Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz 1886 75px Franz Ernst Neumann 1887 75px Joseph Dalton Hooker 1888 75px Thomas Henry Huxley 1889 75px George Salmon 1890 75px Simon Newcomb 1891 75px Stanislao Cannizzaro 1892 75px Rudolf Virchow 1893 75px George Gabriel Stokes 1894 75px Edward Frankland 1895 75px Karl Weierstrass 1896 75px Carl Gegenbaur 1897 75px Albert von Kölliker 1898 75px William Huggins 1899 75px John William Strutt 1900 75px Marcellin Berthelot
1901–1950 År Portræt Navn Begrundelse Note 1901 75px Josiah Willard Gibbs 1902 75px Joseph Lister 1903 75px Eduard Suess 1904 75px William Crookes 1905 75px Dmitrij Mendelejev 1906 75px Élie Metchnikoff 1907 75px Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 75px Alfred Russel Wallace 1909 75px George William Hill 1910 75px Francis Galton 1911 75px George Darwin 1912 75px Felix Klein 1913 75px Ray Lankester 1914 75px J. J. Thomson 1915 75px Ivan Pavlov 1916 75px James Dewar 1917 75px Pierre Paul Émile Roux 1918 75px Hendrik Lorentz 1919 75px William Bayliss 1920 75px Horace Tabberer Brown 1921 75px Joseph Larmor 1922 75px Ernest Rutherford 1923 75px Horace Lamb 1924 75px Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer 1925 75px Albert Einstein 1926 75px Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1927 75px Charles Scott Sherrington 1928 75px Charles Algernon Parsons 1929 75px Max Planck 1930 75px William Henry Bragg 1931 75px Arthur Schuster 1932 75px George Ellery Hale 1933 75px Theobald Smith 1934 75px John Scott Haldane 1935 75px Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1936 75px Arthur Evans 1937 75px Henry Hallett Dale 1938 75px Niels Bohr 1939 75px Thomas Hunt Morgan 1940 75px Paul Langevin 1941 75px Thomas Lewis 1942 75px Robert Robinson 1943 75px Joseph Barcroft 1944 75px Geoffrey Ingram Taylor 1945 75px Oswald Avery 1946 75px Edgar Douglas Adrian 1947 75px G.H. Hardy 1948 75px Archibald Hill 1949 75px George de Hevesy 1950 75px James Chadwick
1951–2000 År Portræt Navn Begrundelse Note 1951 75px David Keilin 1952 75px Paul Dirac 1953 75px Albert Kluyver 1954 75px E. T. Whittaker 1955 Ronald Fisher 1956 75px Patrick Blackett 1957 75px Howard Florey 1958 75px John Edensor Littlewood 1959 75px Frank Macfarlane Burnet 1960 75px Harold Jeffreys 1961 75px Hans Adolf Krebs 1962 75px Cyril Norman Hinshelwood 1963 75px Paul Fildes 1964 75px Sydney Chapman 1965 75px Alan Lloyd Hodgkin 1966 75px William Lawrence Bragg 1967 75px Bernard Katz 1968 75px Tadeus Reichstein 1969 75px Peter Medawar 1970 75px Alexander Todd 1971 75px Norman Pirie 1972 75px Nevill Francis Mott 1973 75px Andrew Huxley 1974 75px W. V. D. Hodge 1975 75px Francis Crick 1976 75px Dorothy Hodgkin 1977 75px Frederick Sanger 1978 75px Robert Burns Woodward 1979 75px Max Perutz 1980 75px Derek Barton 1981 75px Peter D. Mitchell 1982 75px John Cornforth 1983 75px Rodney Robert Porter 1984 75px Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1985 75px Aaron Klug 1986 75px Rudolf Peierls 1987 75px Robin Hill 1988 75px Michael Atiyah 1989 75px César Milstein 1990 75px Abdus Salam 1991 75px Sydney Brenner 1992 75px George Porter 1993 75px James D. Watson 1994 75px Frederick Charles Frank 1995 75px Frank Fenner 1996 75px Alan Cottrell 1997 75px Hugh Huxley 1998 75px James Lighthill 1999 75px John Maynard Smith 2000 75px Alan Battersby
2001- i dag År Portræt Navn Begrundelse Note 2001 75px Jacques Miller 2002 75px John Pople 2003 75px John Gurdon 2004 75px Harry Kroto 2005 75px Paul Nurse 2006 75px Stephen Hawking 2007 75px Robert May 2008 75px Roger Penrose 2009 75px Martin Evans 2010 75px David Cox 75px Tomas Lindahl 2011 75px Dan McKenzie 2012 75px John E. Walker 2013 75px Andre Geim 2014 75px Alec Jeffreys 2015 75px Peter Higgs 2016 75px Richard Henderson 2017 75px Andrew Wiles 2018 75px Jeffrey I. Gordon 2019 75px John B. Goodenough
Se også Godfrey Copley
Referencer
Eksterne henvisninger Liste over modtagere af medaljen
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