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.[ 1] Together with other historical awards, it was merged into the Benjamin Franklin Medal , initiated in 1998.[ 2]
Laureates
Recipients are listed in a database on The Franklin Institute website.[ 2]
Notes
^ Einstein acquired Swiss citizenship in 1901 and held it for the rest of his life. A German until shortly before emigrating to the United States and becoming affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1933, he surrendered his passport and formally renounced his German citizenship on March 28 of that year, in response to Adolf Hitler's rise to power .[ 5] In 1935, he decided to remain in the U.S. permanently and became an American citizen in 1940.
References
^ Flam, Faye (April 29, 1996). "Five to Get Franklin Institute Honors" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . Archived from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-08 .
^ a b "Laureates Search" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute . Retrieved 2015-05-08 .
^ "Thomas Alva Edison" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Auguste G. Ferrie" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ Isaacson, Walter (2007). Einstein: His Life and Universe . New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. pp. 407–410. ISBN 978-0-7432-6473-0 .
^ "Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Paul Dyer Merica" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Henry Clapp Sherman" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Henry Thomas Tizard" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Enrico Fermi" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Robert Robinson" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Wendell Meredith Stanley" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Theodor Von Karman" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "The Svedberg" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Eugene P. Wigner" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "James Chadwick" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Wolfgang Pauli" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "William Francis Gibbs" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Charles Edward Kenneth Mees" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Arne Tiselius" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Frank Whittle" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Hugh Stott Taylor" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Donald Wills Douglas" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Hans Albrecht Bethe" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Roger Adams" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Detlev W. Bronk" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Geoffrey Ingram Taylor" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Glenn T. Seaborg" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Gregory Breit" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Frederick Seitz" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Britton Chance" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Murray Gell-Mann" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. Archived from the original on 2021-02-23. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Marshall Warren Nirenberg" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "John Archibald Wheeler" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Hannes Alfven" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "George Kistiakowsky" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Theodosius Grigorevich Dobzhansky" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "John Bardeen" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Mahlon B. Hoagland" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Cyril Manton Harris" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Elias J. Corey" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "G. Evelyn Hutchinson" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Avram Goldstein" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Lyman Spitzer Jr" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Stephen W. Hawking" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Cesar Milstein" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Kenneth Geddes Wilson" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Verner E. Suomi" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "George Claude Pimentel" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Benoît Mandelbrot" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Stanley Cohen" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Donald Ervin Knuth" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Hugh E. Huxley" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "David Turnbull" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Frederick Reines" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Gerard 't Hooft" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Richard E. Smalley" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Mario Renato Capecchi" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30 .
^ "Nader Engheta" . The Franklin Institute Awards . Franklin Institute. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-28 .
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