The Keith Medal was a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.
The Medal was inaugurated in 1827 as a result of a gift from Alexander Keith of Dunnottar, the first Treasurer of the Society. It was awarded quadrennially, alternately for a paper published in: Proceedings A (Mathematics) or Transactions (Earth and Environmental Sciences). The medal bears the head of John Napier of Merchiston.
The medal is no longer awarded. [1]
Recipients of the Keith Gold Medal
Source (1827 to 1913): Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
19th century
1827–29: David Brewster[2], on his Discovery of Two New Immiscible Fluids in the Cavities of certain Minerals
1829–31: David Brewster[2], on a New Analysis of Solar Light
1831–33: Thomas Graham[3][2], on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases
1833–35: James David Forbes[2], on the Refraction and Polarization of Heat
1835–37: John Scott Russell[4], on Hydrodynamics
1837–39: John Shaw[5], on the Development and Growth of the Salmon
1839–41: Not awarded[5]
1841–43: James David Forbes[2], on Glaciers
1843–45: Not awarded[5]
1845–47: Sir Thomas Brisbane[5], for the Makerstoun Observations on Magnetic Phenomena
1847–49: Not awarded[5]
1849–51: Philip Kelland[4], on General Differentiation, including his more recent Communication on a process of the Differential Calculus, and its application to the solution of certain Differential Equations
1851–53: William John Macquorn Rankine[4], on the Mechanical Action of Heat
1853–55: Thomas Anderson[2], on the Crystalline Constituents of Opium, and on the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances
1855–57: George Boole[5], on the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to Questions of the Combination of Testimonies and Judgments
1857–59: Not awarded[5]
1859–61: John Allan Broun, on the Horizontal Force of the Earth’s Magnetism, on the Correction of the Bifilar Magnetometer, and on Terrestrial Magnetism generally
1861–63: William Thomson[4],on some Kinematical and Dynamical Theorems
1863–65: James David Forbes[2], for Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Iron Bars
1865–67: Charles Piazzi Smyth[4], on Recent Measures at the Great Pyramid
1867–69: Peter Guthrie Tait[4], on the Rotation of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Point
1869–71: James Clerk Maxwell[4], on Figures, Frames, and Diagrams of Forces
1871–73: Peter Guthrie Tait[4], First Approximation to a Thermo-electric Diagram
1873–75: Alexander Crum Brown[2], on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical Relations of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal Ear
1875–77: Matthew Forster Heddle[2], on the Rhombohedral Carbonates and on the Felspars of Scotland
1877–79: Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin[2], on the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery
1879–81: George Chrystal[2], on the Differential Telephone
1881–83: Sir Thomas Muir[4], Researches into the Theory of Determinants and Continued Fractions
1883–85: John Aitken[6], on the Formation of Small Clear Spaces in Dusty Air
1885–87: John Young Buchanan[2],for a series of communications, extending over several years, on subjects connected with Ocean Circulation, Compressibility of Glass, etc.
1887–89: Edmund Albert Letts[4], for his papers on the Organic Compounds of Phosphorus
1889–91: Robert Traill Omond[4], for his contributions to Meteorological Science
1891–93: Sir Thomas Richard Fraser[2], for his papers on Strophanthus hispidus, Strophanthin, and Strophanthidin
1893–95: Cargill Gilston Knott[4], for his papers on the Strains produced by Magnetism in Iron and in Nickel
1895–97: Sir Thomas Muir[4], for his continued communications on Determinants and Allied Questions
1897–99: James Burgess[7][2], on the Definite Integral ...
20th/21st century
1899–1901: Hugh Marshall[4], for his discovery of the Persulphates, and for his Communications on the Properties and Reactions of these Salts
1901–03: Sir William Turner[4], for A Contribution to the Craniology of the People of Scotland and Contributions to the Craniology of the People of the Empire of India
1903–05: Thomas Hastie Bryce[2], for his two papers on The Histology of the Blood of the Larva of Lepidosiren paradoxa
1905–07: Alexander Bruce[4], on the Distribution of the Cells in the Intermedio-Lateral Tract of the Spinal Cord
1907–09: Wheelton Hind, On the Lamellibranch and Gasteropod Fauna found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland
1909–11: Alexander Smith[4], for his researches upon Sulphur and upon Vapour Pressure
1911–13: James Russell[4], for his series of investigations relating to magnetic phenomena in metals and the molecular theory of magnetism
1913–15: James Hartley Ashworth[2]
1915–17: Robert Cockburn Mossmann[4]
1917–19: John Stephenson[4]
1919–21: Ralph Allan Sampson[4]
1921–23: John Walter Gregory[2]
1923–25: Herbert Westren Turnbull[4]
1925–27: Robert Meldrum Craig[2] jointly with ?
1927–29: Christina Miller[4]
1929–31: Alan William Greenwood[2]
1931–33: Arthur Crichton Mitchell[4], for his work on geomagnetism
1933–35: Lancelot Thomas Hogben[2]
1935–37: Harold Stanley Ruse[4]
1937–39: Francis Albert Eley Crew[2]
1939–41: Sir William Hunter McCrea[4] jointly with Edward Copson[2][8][9]
1941–43: James Ritchie[4]
1943–45: William Leonard Edge[2]
1945–47: Charlotte Auerbach[2]
1947–49: Arthur Geoffrey Walker[4]
1949–51: Alastair Graham [10]
1951–53: Daniel Edwin Rutherford[4]
1953–55: Alexander David Peacock[4]
1955–57: Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington[2]
1957–59: John Barclay Tait[4]
1959–61:
1961–63: Robert Alexander Rankin[4]
1963–65: Reinhold Henry Furth[2]
1965–67: Alexander John Haddow[2]
1967–69: Henry Jack[2]
1969–71: Charles Dewar Waterston[11]
1971–73: Douglas Samuel Jones[12]
1973–75: Kenneth Lyon Blaxter[2]
1975–77: Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham [13]
1977–79: Brian John Bluck[11]
1979–81: John Mackintosh Howie
1981–83: John Heslop-Harrison[2]
1983–85: John Bryce McLeod[11][14]
1985–87:
1987–89: John Macleod Ball[11]
1989–91:
1991–93:
1993–95: Euan Clarkson (78th award)[11]
1995–97: No award
1997–99: Vladimír Šverák (79th award)
1999–2001:
2001–03: No award
2005: No award
2006: Antonio DeSimone, Stefan Müller, Robert Kohn, Felix Otto
Medal no longer awarded (though a 2011 edition had been planned)
See also
List of mathematics awards
References
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"News and Events". University of Strathclyde. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
"Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
"Keith Awards 1827-1890". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 36 (3): 767–770. 1892. doi:10.1017/S0080456800037984.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Aitken, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
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"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
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"Directory 2013/2014" (PDF). RSE. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
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"Professor Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham". Cardiff University. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
"Professor John Bryce McLeod FRS FRSE (1929 - 2014)". University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
External links
Awards of Keith Prize 1827-1890
List of recent winners
Announcement of Jenkin's award
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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