The Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Lectureship is a quadrennial award made by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to recognise original work done by scientists resident in or connected with Scotland. The award was founded in 1887 by Dr Robert Halliday Gunning, a Scottish surgeon, entrepreneur and philanthropist who spent much of his life in Brazil. Awards by a similar name have also been awarded by the University of Edinburgh.
Prizewinners Source: Royal Society of Edinburgh
1887: Sir William Thomson, for a series of papers on Hydrokinetics 1887–1890: Peter Guthrie Tait, for work done on the Challenger Expedition 1890–1893: Alexander Buchan, for his contributions on meteorology 1893–1896: John Aitken, for his work on the formation and condensation of aqueous vapour 1896–1899: Rev. Thomas David Anderson, for his discoveries of new and variable stars 1900–1904: Sir James Dewar, for his researches on the liquefaction of gases 1904–1908: George Chrystal, for a series of papers on Seiches 1908–1912: John Norman Collie, for his contributions to organic and inorganic chemistry 1912–1916: Thomas Muir, for his memoirs on the theory and history of determinants 1916–1920: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, for his studies in connection with condensation nuclei, ionisation of gases and atmospheric electricity 1920–1924: Sir Joseph John Thomson, for his discoveries in physics 1924–1928: E.T. Whittaker, for his contributions to mathematics 1928–1932: Sir James Walker, for contributions to physical and general chemistry 1932–1936: Charles Galton Darwin, for his contributions to mathematical physics 1936–1940: James Colquhoun Irvine, for contributions to organic chemistry 1940–1944: Herbert Westren Turnbull, for his contributions to mathematical science 1944–1948: Max Born, for contributions to theoretical physics 1948–1952: Alexander Craig Aitken, for his contributions to pure mathematics 1952–1956: Harry Melville, for contributions to reaction kinetics and physics and chemistry of high polymers 1956–1960: Sir Edward Victor Appleton, contributions to ionospheric and radio physics 1960–1964: Sir Edmund Hirst, for contributions to the chemistry of carbohydrates 1964–1968: Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge, for contributions to geometry 1968–1972: Philip Ivor Dee, for contributions to nuclear physics 1972–1976: Arthur Erdelyi, for contributions to mathematics especially the theory of special functions 1976–1980: Charles Kemball, for contributions to the study of analysis 1984: Nicholas Kemmer, for his contributions to the theory of elementary particles 1988: Sir Michael Atiyah, for his contribution to mathematics 1992: Peter Ludwig Pauson, for his contributions to the chemistry of diene- and triene-metal carbonyl complexes 1996: Kathryn A Whaler, for her contribution to the development of mathematical models on the long wave length component of the geomagnetic field 2000: Angus Macintyre, for his contributions to logic, model theory, algebra, analysis and computer science 2004: Peter George Bruce, for contributions to solid state chemistry 2008: James Hough, for his work on gravitational waves
See also List of general science and technology awards List of mathematics awards
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