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. It is named for Howard N. Potts. The first Howard N. Potts Medal was awarded in 1911 but was merged in 1991, along with other Franklin Institute historical awards, into the Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Laureates

The following people received the Howard N. Potts Medal: *1911 -

William Weber Coblentz William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

(Physics) *1912 -

William Arthur Bone William Arthur Bone, FRS (19 March 1871 – 11 June 1938) was a British fuel technologist and chemist. Biography Bone was born in Stockton-on-Tees, the son of Christopher Bone, a tea merchant, and his wife Mary Elizabeth. He was educated at ...

(Chemistry) *1913 - James A. Bizzell (Earth Science) *1913 -

Thomas Lyttleton Lyon Thomas Lyttleton Lyon (17 February 1869 – October 7, 1938) was an American soil scientist who wrote on the nitrogen cycle. He was secretary of the American Society of Agronomy from 1907 to 1909. He was a fellow of the American Association fo ...

(Earth Science) for "Plants and Relation to Nitrate in Soils" *1914 -

Ralph Modjeski Ralph Modjeski (born Rudolf Modrzejewski; January 27, 1861 – June 26, 1940) was a Polish-American civil engineer who achieved prominence as "America's greatest bridge builder." Life He was born in Bochnia, called Galicia at the time, on Janua ...

(Engineering) *1916 -

William Jackson Humphreys William Jackson Humphreys (February 3, 1862 – November 10, 1949) was an American physicist and atmospheric researcher. Biography Humphreys was born on February 3, 1862, in Gap Mills, West Virginia to Jackson and Eliza Ann (née Eads) Humphreys ...

(Physics) *1916 - William Spencer Murray (Engineering) *1917 -

Ulric Dahlgren Ulric Dahlgren (April 3, 1842 – March 2, 1864) was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the son of Union Navy Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren and nephew to Confederate Brigadier General Charles G. Dahlgren. He ...

(Life Science) *1918 - Alexander Gray (Engineering) *1918 -

Arthur Edwin Kennelly Arthur Edwin Kennelly (December 17, 1861 – June 18, 1939) was an American electrical engineer. Biography Kennelly was born December 17, 1861, in Colaba, in Bombay Presidency, British India, and was educated at University College School in Lon ...

(Engineering) *1918 - Louis Vessot King (Engineering) *1919 - Reynold Janney (Engineering) *1919 - Clarence P. Landreth (Chemistry) *1919 -

Harvey D. Williams Harvey Dean Williams Sr. (July 30, 1930 – August 7, 2020) was a United States Army major general. He was the first African-American post commander of Fort Myer, and was the Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Army in 1980. He commanded arti ...

(Engineering) *1920 - Wendell Addison Barker (Invention) *1920 - Edward P. Bullard, Jr. (Engineering) *1921 -

Elmer Verner McCollum Elmer Verner McCollum (March 3, 1879 – November 15, 1967) was an American biochemist known for his work on the influence of diet on health.Kruse, 1961. McCollum is also remembered for starting the first rat colony in the United States to be u ...

(Life Science) *1921 - Alfred O. Tate (Engineering) *1922 -

Ernest George Coker Prof Ernest George Coker FRS FRSE MIME MICE Wh.Ex. (1869–1946) was a British mathematician and engineer. He won the Howard N. Potts Medal for Physics in 1922, and the Rumford Medal for work on polarised light in 1936. He was an expert ...

(Physics) *1922 - Charles R. Downs (Chemistry) *1922 -

Richard Bishop Moore Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

(Chemistry) *1922 - J. M. Weiss (Chemistry) *1923 -

Albert Wallace Hull Albert Wallace Hull (19 April 1880 – 22 January 1966) was an American physicist and electrical engineer who made contributions to the development of vacuum tubes, and invented the magnetron. He was a member of the National Academy of Scien ...

(Chemistry) for X-ray crystallography *1924 -

John August Anderson John August Anderson (August 7, 1876 – December 2, 1959) was an American astronomer. He was born in Rollag, a small community in Clay County, Minnesota to the south of Hawley. Biography Anderson received his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University ...

(Engineering) *1924 -

William Gaertner William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

(Engineering) *1925 -

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. Education and early life Wilson was born in the parish ...

(Physics) *1926 -

William David Coolidge William David Coolidge (; October 23, 1873 – February 3, 1975) was an American physicist and engineer, who made major contributions to X-ray machines. He was the director of the General Electric Research Laboratory and a vice-president of t ...

(Physics) *1926 - Howard W. Matheson (Chemistry) *1927 - George E. Beggs (Physics) *1927 - Marion Eppley (Engineering) *1928 - Eugene C. Sullivan (Chemistry) *1928 - William C. Taylor (Chemistry) *1928 - Oscar G. Thurow (Engineering) *1931 - Benno Strauss (Engineering) *1932 -

George Paget Thomson Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (; 3 May 189210 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Education and early life Thomson ...

(Physics) *1933 - Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Engineering) *1934 - Ernst Georg Fischer (Engineering) *1936 -

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (30 July 1887 – 10 August 1966) was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity (gravimetry). Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure g ...

(Engineering) *1937 - John Clyde Hostetter (Engineering) *1938 - Lars Olai Grondahl (Engineering) *1939 - Newcomb K. Chaney (Engineering) *1939 - H. Jermain Creighton (Engineering) *1941 -

Harold Eugene Edgerton Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990), also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with ...

(Engineering) *1942 -

Jesse Wakefield Beams Jesse Wakefield Beams (December 25, 1898 in Belle Plaine, Kansas – July 23, 1977) was an American physicist at the University of Virginia. Biography Beams completed his undergraduate B.A. in physics at Fairmount College in 1921 and his mas ...

(Physics) *1942 - Harcourt Colborne Drake (Engineering) *1942 -

Bernard Lyot Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (27 February 1897 in Paris – 2 April 1952 in Cairo) was a French astronomer. Biography An avid reader of the works of Camille Flammarion, he became a member of the Société Astronomique de France in 1915 and made h ...

(Physics) *1943 - Don Francisco Ballen (Life Science) *1943 - Paul Renno Heyl (Physics) *1945 -

Edwin Albert Link Edwin Albert Link (July 26, 1904 – September 7, 1981) was an American inventor, entrepreneur and pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles. He invented the flight simulator, which was called the "Blue Box" or "Link Train ...

(Engineering) *1946 -

Ira Sprague Bowen Ira Sprague Bowen (December 21, 1898 – February 6, 1973) was an American physicist and astronomer. In 1927 he discovered that nebulium was not really a chemical element but instead doubly ionized oxygen. Life and work Bowen was born in Sen ...

(Physics) *1946 - Bengt Edlen (Physics) *1946 -

Sanford Alexander Moss Sanford Alexander Moss (August 23, 1872 – November 10, 1946) was an American aviation engineer, who was the first to use a turbocharger on an aircraft engine. Life and career Sanford Moss was born 1872 in San Francisco, California to Ernest ...

(Engineering) *1947 - Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Engineering) *1948 -

Eugene Jules Houdry Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, France, April 18, 1892 – Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1962) was a mechanical engineer who graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in 1911. Houdry served as a lieutenant in a tank com ...

(Chemistry) *1948 - Clarence A. Lovell (Engineering) *1948 - David Bigelow Parkinson (Engineering) *1949 - J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (Computer and Cognitive Science) *1949 - Clinton Richards Hanna (Engineering) *1949 -

John William Mauchly John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first co ...

(Computer and Cognitive Science) *1950 - Merle Anthony Tuve (Engineering) *1951 - Basil A. Adams (Engineering) *1951 - Clifford M. Foust (Physics) *1951 - Eric Leighton Holmes (Chemistry) *1956 -

Edwin H. Land Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an Russian-American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a ...

(Engineering) *1958 -

William Nelson Goodwin, Jr. William is a male given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norm ...

(Engineering) *1958 - Emanuel Rosenberg (Engineering) *1959 - George W. Morey (Engineering) *1960 -

Charles Stark Draper Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentati ...

(Engineering) *1962 - Wilbur H. Goss (Engineering) *1964 -

Erwin Wilhelm Müller Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or ''Mueller'') (June 13, 1911 – May 17, 1977) was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He and his st ...

(Engineering) *1965 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell (Engineering) *1966 - Robert Kunin (Chemistry) *1967 - John Louis Moll (Engineering) *1968 -

Heinrich Focke Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful German helicopter. Biography ...

(Engineering) *1969 -

Albert Ghiorso Albert Ghiorso (July 15, 1915 – December 26, 2010) was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned six decades, from the early 1940s to the late 1990s. Biog ...

(Chemistry) *1969 - Charles P. Ginsburg (Engineering) *1970 -

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). Th ...

(Life Science) *1971 - William David McElroy (Life Science) *1972 - Jacques Ernest Piccard (Engineering) *1973 - Charles Howard Vollum (Engineering) *1974 -

Jay Wright Forrester Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer ...

(Engineering) *1975 -

LeGrand G. Van Uitert LeGrand Van Uitert (May 8, 1922 in Salt Lake City – June 3, 1999 in Morristown, New Jersey) was an American scientist who co-invented the first continuous beam optical MASER, now known as a laser, using a synthetic rare-earth doped garnet crystal ...

(Engineering) *1976 -

Stephanie L. Kwolek Stephanie Louise Kwolek (; July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar. Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. She discovered the first of a family of synthetic fibers of ...

(Engineering) *1976 - Paul W. Morgan (Engineering) *1977 -

Godfrey N. Hounsfield Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was an England, English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic techn ...

(Life Science) *1978 -

Michael Szwarc Michael Szwarc (9 June 1909, Będzin, Poland – 4 August 2000, San Diego, California) was a British and American polymer chemist who discovered and studied ionic living polymerization. Biography Michael Mojżesz Szwarc was born into a Polish ...

(Chemistry) *1979 - Seymour Roger Cray (Computer and Cognitive Science) *1979 - Richard Travis Whitcomb (Engineering) *1980 - Stanley G. Mason (Physics) *1981 - August Uno Lamm (Engineering) *1982 - Charles Gilbert Overberger (Chemistry) *1983 - George G. Guilbault (Life Science) *1983 - Paul Christian Lauterbur (Physics) *1985 - William Cochran (Life Science) *1986 -

Martin David Kruskal Martin David Kruskal (; September 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006) was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and ...

(Physics) *1986 - Norman J. Zabusky (Physics) *1988 - Dudley Dean Fuller (Engineering) *1989 - Sir

Charles William Oatley Sir Charles William Oatley OBE, FRS FREng (14 February 1904 – 11 March 1996) was Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 1960–1971, and developer of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes. He was ...

(Physics) *1991 - Richard E. Morley (Computer and Cognitive Science)

References

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Laureates

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