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<p>Awarded by the <a href="/org/793/000055628/">Royal Society</a> in even-numbered years for an "outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe."<p> <b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards/medals/RumfordMedal.htm">http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards/medals/RumfordMedal.htm</a><p><p> <table border=1><tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1800</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/662/000104350/">Benjamin Count Rumford</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1802</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1804</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>John Leslie </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1806</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>William Murdock </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1808</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1810</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/036/000095748/">Étienne Louis Malus</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1812</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1814</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>William Charles Wells </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1816</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/028/000083776/">Humphry Davy</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1818</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>David Brewster </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1820</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1822</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1824</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/925/000100625/">Augustin-Jean Fresnel</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1826</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1828</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1830</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1832</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>John Frederick Daniell </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1834</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/948/000100648/">Macedonio Melloni</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1836</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1838</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>James David Forbes </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1840</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/895/000100595/">Jean-Baptiste Biot</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1842</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/397/000098103/">William Henry Fox Talbot</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1844</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>(no award) </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1846</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/571/000024499/">Michael Faraday</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1848</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/089/000099789/">Henri-Victor Regnault</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1850</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/308/000032212/">François Arago</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1852</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/131/000097837/">George Gabriel Stokes</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1854</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Neil Arnott </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1856</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/580/000072364/">Louis Pasteur</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1858</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Jules Jamin </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1860</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/430/000072214/">James Clerk Maxwell</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1862</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/530/000097239/">Gustav Robert Kirchhoff</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1864</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>John Tyndall </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1866</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1868</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/117/000097823/">Balfour Stewart</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1870</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Alfred Olivier Des Cloizeaux </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1872</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/929/000100629/">Anders Jonas Ångström</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1874</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Joseph Norman Lockyer </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1876</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/937/000100637/">Pierre Janssen</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1878</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/962/000100662/">Alfred Cornu</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1880</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/389/000103080/">William Huggins</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1882</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>William de Wiveleslie Abney </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1884</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Tobias Robertus Thalen </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1886</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Samuel P. Langley </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1888</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Pietro Tacchini </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1890</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/419/000072203/">Heinrich Hertz</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1892</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Nils C. Duner </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1894</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/094/000099794/">James Dewar</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1896</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/441/000099144/">Philipp Lenard</a> and <a href="/people/550/000071337/">Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1898</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Oliver Joseph Lodge </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1900</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/608/000072392/">Henri Becquerel</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1902</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Charles Algernon Parsons </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1904</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/218/000068014/">Ernest Rutherford</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1906</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Hugh Longbourne Callendar </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1908</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/756/000091483/">Hendrik Lorentz</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1910</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Heinrich Rubens </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1912</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/521/000099224/">Heike Kamerlingh Onnes</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1914</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/497/000099200/">Lord Rayleigh</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1916</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/533/000099236/">William Bragg</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1918</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Charles Fabry Alfred Perot </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1920</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/497/000099200/">Lord Rayleigh</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1922</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/476/000099179/">Pieter Zeeman</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1924</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Charles Vernon Boys </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1926</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Arthur Schuster </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1928</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Friedrich Paschen </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1930</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/190/000099890/">Peter Debye</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1932</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/884/000092608/">Fritz Haber</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1934</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Wander Johannes de Haas </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1936</nobr></tt></center></td> <td>Ernest John Coker </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><center><tt><nobr>1938</nobr></tt></center></td> <td><a href="/people/102/000099802/">Robert W. 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