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30: 83:, 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 210:
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
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for a series of communications, extending over several years, on subjects connected with Ocean Circulation, Compressibility of Glass, etc.
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on the Horizontal Force of the Earth’s Magnetism, on the Correction of the Bifilar Magnetometer, and on Terrestrial Magnetism generally
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on the Crystalline Constituents of Opium, and on the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances
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for his discovery of the Persulphates, and for his Communications on the Properties and Reactions of these Salts
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for his series of investigations relating to magnetic phenomena in metals and the molecular theory of magnetism
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on the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to Questions of the Combination of Testimonies and Judgments
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on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical Relations of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal Ear
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on the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery
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for his two papers on The Histology of the Blood of the Larva of Lepidosiren paradoxa
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on the Distribution of the Cells in the Intermedio-Lateral Tract of the Spinal Cord
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On the Lamellibranch and Gasteropod Fauna found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland
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on his Discovery of Two New Immiscible Fluids in the Cavities of certain Minerals
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for his papers on the Strains produced by Magnetism in Iron and in Nickel
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for his papers on Strophanthus hispidus, Strophanthin, and Strophanthidin
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for Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Iron Bars
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for his continued communications on Determinants and Allied Questions
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Contributions to the Craniology of the People of the Empire of India
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Researches into the Theory of Determinants and Continued Fractions
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Medal no longer awarded (though a 2011 edition had been planned)
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for A Contribution to the Craniology of the People of Scotland
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The Medal was inaugurated in 1827 as a result of a gift from
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for his researches upon Sulphur and upon Vapour Pressure
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for his papers on the Organic Compounds of Phosphorus
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for the Makerstoun Observations on Magnetic Phenomena
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on the Formation of Small Clear Spaces in Dusty Air
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on the Rotation of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Point
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Index

Keith Prize

Lord Kelvin
prize
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scotland
national academy
scientific paper
scientific journals
mathematics
earth sciences
Alexander Keith of Dunnottar
John Napier
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
David Brewster
David Brewster
Thomas Graham
James David Forbes
John Scott Russell
James David Forbes
Thomas Brisbane
Philip Kelland
William John Macquorn Rankine
Thomas Anderson
George Boole
John Allan Broun
William Thomson
James David Forbes
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Peter Guthrie Tait

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