Medals and awards
The Royal Society’s prestigious medals and awards programme recognises and celebrates outstanding contributions to science from individuals and teams.
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Royal Society Hauksbee Award
This award is for outstanding achievements in science by someone whose work is mostly 'behind the…
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Royal Medals
These medals are awarded for the most important contributions in the physical, biological and…
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Copley Medal
This medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in the physical sciences in odd years and the…
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Bakerian Medal and Lecture
This prize lecture is the premier lecture in the physical sciences.
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Croonian Medal and Lecture
This prize lecture is the premier lecture in the biological sciences.
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Royal Society Athena Prize
The Royal Society Athena Prize is awarded biennially to teams, working in UK academic and research…
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Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture
This award is made to support the promotion of women in science, technology, engineering and…
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Royal Society Rising Star Africa Prize
Rising Star Africa Prize: to recognise early-career research scientists based in Africa who are…
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Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture
This prize lecture is given on a subject in the field of microbiology, bacteriology, virology,…
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Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture
This prize lecture is given on a subject in the field of engineering.
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Francis Crick Medal and Lecture
This prize lecture is given on a subject in the field of biology.
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Buchanan Medal
This medal is awarded for distinguished contributions to the medical sciences
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