- Source: Elliott Cresson Medal
The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established by Elliott Cresson, life member of the Franklin Institute, with $1,000 granted in 1848. The endowed award was to be "for some discovery in the Arts and Sciences, or for the invention or improvement of some useful machine, or for some new process or combination of materials in manufactures, or for ingenuity skill or perfection in workmanship." The medal was first awarded in 1875, 21 years after Cresson's death.
The Franklin Institute continued awarding the medal on an occasional basis until 1998 when they reorganized their endowed awards under one umbrella, The Benjamin Franklin Awards.
List of recipients
A total of 268 Elliott Cresson Medals were given out during the award's lifetime.
See also
List of engineering awards
List of physics awards
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Medali Elliott Cresson
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Nikola Tesla
- Henry Ford
- Rudolf Diesel
- Mihajlo Pupin
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Emil Fischer
- Edwin Herbert Land
- Herbert Charles Brown
- Elliott Cresson Medal
- Elliott Cresson
- Hans Goldschmidt
- Pierre Curie
- Donald A. Glaser
- Robert J. Van de Graaff
- Samuel Wesley Stratton
- Bill Lear
- Henry Ford
- Lester Allan Pelton
