- Not to be confused with the Rumford Medal
In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, made two separate gifts of $5,000 each to the Royal Society of London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to enable them to give awards every two years for outstanding scientific research on heat or light. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences awards the Rumford Prize; the Royal Society awards the Rumford Medal.
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List of prizewinners
1839-1899
- 1839 : Robert Hare
- 1862 : John Ericsson
- 1865 : Daniel Treadwell
- 1866 : Alvan Clark
- 1869 : George Henry Corliss
- 1871 : Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- 1873 : Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
- 1875 : John William Draper
- 1880 : Josiah Willard Gibbs
- 1883 : Henry Augustus Rowland
- 1886 : Samuel Pierpont Langley
- 1888 : Albert Abraham Michelson
- 1891 : Edward Charles Pickering
- 1895 : Thomas Alva Edison
- 1898 : James Edward Keeler
- 1899 : Charles Francis Brush
1900-1949
- 1900 : Carl Barus
- 1901 : Elihu Thomson
- 1902 : George Ellery Hale
- 1904 : Ernest Fox Nichols
- 1907 : Edward Goodrich Acheson
- 1909 : Robert Williams Wood
- 1910 : Charles Gordon Curtis
- 1911 : James Mason Crafts [1]
- 1912 : Frederic Eugene Ives
- 1913 : Joel Stebbins
- 1914 : William David Coolidge
- 1915 : Charles Greeley Abbot
- 1917 : Percy Williams Bridgman
- 1918 : Theodore Lyman
- 1920 : Irving Langmuir
- 1925 : Henry Norris Russell
- 1926 : Arthur Holly Compton
- 1928 : Edward Leamington Nichols
- 1930 : John Stanley Plaskett
- 1931 : Karl Taylor Compton
- 1933 : Harlow Shapley
- 1937 : William Weber Coblentz
- 1939 : George Russell Harrison
- 1941 : Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
- 1943 : Charles Edward Mees
- 1945 : Edwin Herbert Land
- 1947 : Edmund Newton Harvey
- 1949 : Ira Sprague Bowen
Since 1951
- 1951 : Herbert E. Ives
- 1953 : Enrico Fermi, Willis E. Lamb, Jr. and Lars Onsager
- 1955 : James Franck
- 1957 : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1959 : George Wald
- 1961 : Charles H. Townes
- 1963 : Hans Albrecht Bethe
- 1965 : Samuel Cornette Collins and William David McElroy
- 1967 : Robert Henry Dicke and Cornelius B. Van Niel
- 1968 : Maarten Schmidt
- 1971 : Group awards
- 1973 : E. Bright Wilson
- 1976 : Bruno Rossi
- 1980 : Gregorio Weber, Chen Ning Yang and Robert L. Mills
- 1985 : Hans Georg Dehmelt, Martin Deutsch, Vernon Willard Hughes and Norman Foster Ramsey
- 1986 : Robert B. Leighton, Frank James Low and Gerry Neugebauer
- 1992 : James R. Norris, Joseph J. Katz and George Feher
- 1996 : John C. Mather
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References and footnotes
- ^ award names him as "James Madison Crafts"
