Medalha Rumford

Em 1796, Benjamin Thompson, o conde de Rumford, fez duas doações de USD 5.000 cada, uma para a Royal Society de Londres e outra para a Academia de Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos, para tornar possível que eles sempre premiassem pessoas a cada dois anos, por pesquisas relevantes sobre calor e/ou luz.

Benjamin Thompson, o conde de Rumford

A Academia de Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos concede o Prêmio Rumford, enquanto a Royal Society concede a Medalha Rumford.

Medalhistas

Século XVIII

• 1800 : Benjamin Thompson

Século XIX

• 1804: John Leslie
• 1808: William Murdoch
• 1810: Étienne-Louis Malus
• 1814: William Charles Wells
• 1816: Humphry Davy
• 1818: David Brewster
• 1824: Augustin-Jean Fresnel
• 1832: John Frederic Daniell
• 1834: Macedonio Melloni
• 1838: James David Forbes
• 1840: Jean-Baptiste Biot
• 1842: William Henry Fox Talbot
• 1846: Michael Faraday
• 1848: Henri Victor Regnault
• 1850: François Jean Dominique Arago
• 1852: George Gabriel Stokes
• 1854: Neil Arnott
• 1856: Louis Pasteur
• 1858: Jules Célestin Jamin
• 1860: James Clerk Maxwell
• 1862: Gustav Kirchhoff
• 1864: John Tyndall
• 1866: Hippolyte Fizeau
• 1868: Balfour Stewart
• 1870: Alfred Des Cloizeaux
• 1872: Anders Jonas Ångström
• 1874: Norman Lockyer
• 1876: Pierre Janssen
• 1878: Alfred Cornu
• 1880: William Huggins
• 1882: William de Wiveleslie Abney
• 1884: Tobias Robertus Thalen
• 1886: Samuel Pierpont Langley
• 1888: Pietro Tacchini
• 1890: Heinrich Hertz
• 1892: Nils Christoffer Dunér
• 1894: James Dewar
• 1896: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Philipp Lenard
• 1898: Oliver Lodge
• 1900: Antoine Henri Becquerel

Século XX

• 1902: Charles Algernon Parsons
• 1904: Ernest Rutherford
• 1906: Hugh Longbourne Callendar
• 1908: Hendrik Lorentz
• 1910: Heinrich Rubens
• 1912: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
• 1914: John William Strutt
• 1916: William Henry Bragg
• 1918: Charles Fabry e Alfred Perot
• 1920: John William Strutt
• 1922: Pieter Zeeman
• 1924: Charles Vernon Boys
• 1926: Arthur Schuster
• 1928: Friedrich Paschen
• 1930: Peter Debye
• 1932: Fritz Haber
• 1934: Wander Johannes de Haas
• 1936: Ernest George Coker
• 1938: Robert Williams Wood
• 1940: Karl Siegbahn
• 1942: Gordon Dobson
• 1944: Harry Ricardo
• 1946: Alfred Egerton
• 1948: Francis Simon
• 1950: Frank Whittle
• 1952: Frits Zernike
• 1954: Cecil Reginald Burch
• 1956: Frank Philip Bowden
• 1958: Thomas Ralph Merton
• 1960: Alfred Gordon Gaydon
• 1962: Dudley Maurice Newitt
• 1964: Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst
• 1966: William Penney
• 1968: Dennis Gabor
• 1970: Christopher Hinton
• 1972: Basil John Mason
• 1974: Alan Cottrell
• 1976: Ilya Prigogine
• 1978: George Porter
• 1980: William Frank Vinen
• 1982: Charles Gorrie Wynne
• 1984: Harold Hopkins
• 1986: Denis Rooke
• 1988: Felix Weinberg
• 1990: Walter Eric Spear
• 1992: Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
• 1994: Andrew Keller
• 1996: Grenville Turner
• 1998: Richard Friend
• 2000: Wilson Sibbett

Século XXI

• 2002: David King
• 2004: Richard Dixon
• 2006: Jean-Pierre Hansen
• 2008: Edward Hinds
• 2010: Gilbert Lonzarich
• 2012: Roy Taylor
• 2014: Jeremy Baumberg
• 2016: Ortwin Hess
• 2018: Ian Walmsley
• 2019: Miles Padgett
• 2020: Patrick Gill
• 2021: Carlos Frenk