John Price Wetherill Medal
Illustration — John Price Wetherill The John Price Wetherill Medal was an award of the Franklin Institute. It was established with a bequest given by the family of John Price Wetherill (1844–1906) on April 3, 1917. On June 10, 1925, the Board of Managers voted to create a silver medal, to be awarded for "discovery or invention in the physical sciences" or "new and important combinations of principles or methods already known".
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The legend on the first medal read: "for discovery, invention, or development in the physical sciences". The John Price Wetherill Medal was last awarded in 1997.
• 1926 Frank Twyman, Wagner Electric Corporation • 1927 Carl Ethan Akeley, North East Appliances Inc. • 1928 Albert S. Howell, Frank E. Ross • 1929 Gustave Fast, William H. Mason, Johannes Ruths • 1930 Charles S. Chrisman, William N. Jennings • 1931 Thomas Tarvin Gray, Arthur J. Mason, Edwin G. Steele, Walter L. Steele, Henry M. Sutton, Edward C. Wente • 1932 Halvor O. Hem, Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Carl George Munters, Baltzar von Platen, Frank Wenner • 1933 Henry S. Hulbert, Industrial Brownhoist Corporation, Koppers Company, Francis C. McMath, Robert R. McMath • 1934 E. Newton Harvey, Alfred L. Loomis, Johannes B. Ostermeier • 1935 F. Hope-Jones, Francis Ferdinand Lucas, Robert E. Naumburg, William H. Shortt, James Edmond Shrader, Louis Bryant Tuckermann, Henry Ellis Warren • 1936 Albert L. Marsh • 1939 William Albert Hyde • 1940 Laurens Hammond, Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt, Howard L. Krum • 1941 Harold Stephen Black • 1943 Robert Howland Leach • 1944 Richard C. DuPont, Willem Fredrik Westendorp • 1946 Lewis A. Rodert • 1947 Kenneth S. M. Davidson • 1948 Wendell Frederick Hess • 1949 Edgar Collins Bain, Thomas L. Fawick, Harlan D. Fowler • 1950 Donald William Kerst, Sigurd Varian, Russell Varian • 1951 Samuel C. Collins, Reid Berry Gray, Gaylord W. Penney • 1952 Martin E. Nordberg, Harrison P. Hood, Albert J. Williams Junior, • 1953 Robert H. Dalton, Stanley Donald Stookey • 1954 William D. Buckingham, Clarence Nichols Hickman, Edwin T. Lorig • 1955 Louis M. Moyroud, Rene A. Higonnet, Jacques Yves Pierre SeJournet • 1957 Warren W. Carpenter, Martin Company, • 1958 Henry Boot, J. Sayers, John Randall • 1959 Robert B. Aitchison, Archer J. P. Martin, Anthony Trafford James, Clarence Zener, R. L. M. Synge • 1960 Raimond Castaing, Walter Juda, Victor Vacquier • 1961 Albert E. Hitchcock, Percy W. Zimmerman • 1962 Ernest Ambler, Raymond Webster Hayward, Dale Dubois Hoppes, Ralph P. Hudson, Stanley Donald Stookey, Chien-Shiung Wu • 1963 Daryl M. Chapin, Calvin Souther Fuller, Gerald L. Pearson • 1964 Howard Aiken, John Eugene Kunzler, John Kenneth Hulm, Bernd Matthias • 1965 Edward Ching-Te Chao, Wendell F. Moore, John Hamilton Reynolds, Frederick D. Rossini, Eugene Shoemaker, Fred Noel Spiess • 1966 Howard G. Rogers, Britton Chance • 1967 Ernest Omar Wollan • 1968 Nathan Cohn • 1969 George R. Cowan, John J. Douglass, Arnold H. Holtzman • 1970 Paul D. Bartlett • 1971 Felix Wankel • 1972 Otto Herbert Schmitt • 1973 A. R. Howell • 1974 Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson • 1975 Donald Newton Langenberg, William Henry Parker, Barry Norman Taylor • 1976 Herbert Blades, James W. Cronin, Val Fitch • 1978 William Klemperer • 1979 Elias Burstein • 1980 Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman • 1981 Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, Webster E. Howard, Frank Stern, Philip J. Stiles • 1982 Lawrence A. Harris • 1984 Eugene Garfield • 1985 Lynn A. Conway, Carver A. Mead • 1986 Alvin Van Valkenburg • 1987 Dennis H. Klatt • 1990 Akito Arima • 1991 Peter John Twin • 1992 Gerald E. Brown • 1994 Stirling A. Colgate • 1997 Federico Capasso
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- 27.Federico Capasso. The Franklin Institute. 2014-01-15.
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