Back Davy-medalje Afrikaans قلادة ديفي Arabic Medalla Davy Catalan Davyho medaile Czech Davy-Medaille German Medalo Davy Esperanto Medalla Davy Spanish مدال دیوی Persian Médaille Davy French Medalla Davy Galician
Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, the first recipients of the award. They were awarded the medal "for their researches & discoveries in spectrum analysis".
The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry".[1][2] Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a monetary gift, initially of £1000 (currently £2000).[3] Receiving the Davy Medal has been identified as a potential precursor to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,[4] with 22 scientists as of 2022 having been awarded the medal prior to becoming Nobel laureates, according to an analysis by the Royal Society of Chemistry.[5]
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- ^ "Davy Medal". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
- ^ Ma, Yifang; Uzzi, Brian (December 10, 2018). "Scientific prize network predicts who pushes the boundaries of science". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (50): 12608–12615. doi:10.1073/pnas.1800485115. PMC 6294901. PMID 30530666.
- ^ Walter, Patrick (5 October 2022). "The 2022 chemistry Nobel prize goes to bioorthogonal and click chemistry – as it happened". Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry. Archived from the original on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2023.