The Keith Medal was a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences. The Medal was inaugurated in 1827 as a result of a gift from Alexander Keith of Dunnottar, 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 John Napier of Merchiston. The medal is no longer awarded.
Recipients of the Keith Gold Medal Source (1827 to 1913): Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
19th century 1827–29: David Brewster, on his Discovery of Two New Immiscible Fluids in the Cavities of certain Minerals 1829–31: David Brewster, on a New Analysis of Solar Light 1831–33: Thomas Graham, on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases 1833–35: James David Forbes, on the Refraction and Polarization of Heat 1835–37: John Scott Russell, on Hydrodynamics 1837–39: John Shaw, on the Development and Growth of the Salmon 1839–41: Not awarded 1841–43: James David Forbes, on Glaciers 1843–45: Not awarded 1845–47: Sir Thomas Brisbane, for the Makerstoun Observations on Magnetic Phenomena 1847–49: Not awarded 1849–51: Philip Kelland, 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 1851–53: William John Macquorn Rankine, on the Mechanical Action of Heat 1853–55: Thomas Anderson, on the Crystalline Constituents of Opium, and on the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances 1855–57: George Boole, on the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to Questions of the Combination of Testimonies and Judgments 1857–59: Not awarded 1859–61: John Allan Broun, on the Horizontal Force of the Earth’s Magnetism, on the Correction of the Bifilar Magnetometer, and on Terrestrial Magnetism generally 1861–63: William Thomson, on some Kinematical and Dynamical Theorems 1863–65: James David Forbes, for Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Iron Bars 1865–67: Charles Piazzi Smyth, on Recent Measures at the Great Pyramid 1867–69: Peter Guthrie Tait, on the Rotation of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Point 1869–71: James Clerk Maxwell, on Figures, Frames, and Diagrams of Forces 1871–73: Peter Guthrie Tait, First Approximation to a Thermo-electric Diagram 1873–75: Alexander Crum Brown, on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical Relations of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal Ear 1875–77: Matthew Forster Heddle, on the Rhombohedral Carbonates and on the Felspars of Scotland 1877–79: Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery 1879–81: George Chrystal, on the Differential Telephone 1881–83: Sir Thomas Muir, Researches into the Theory of Determinants and Continued Fractions 1883–85: John Aitken, on the Formation of Small Clear Spaces in Dusty Air 1885–87: John Young Buchanan, for a series of communications, extending over several years, on subjects connected with Ocean Circulation, Compressibility of Glass, etc. 1887–89: Edmund Albert Letts, for his papers on the Organic Compounds of Phosphorus 1889–91: Robert Traill Omond, for his contributions to Meteorological Science 1891–93: Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, for his papers on Strophanthus hispidus, Strophanthin, and Strophanthidin 1893–95: Cargill Gilston Knott, for his papers on the Strains produced by Magnetism in Iron and in Nickel 1895–97: Sir Thomas Muir, for his continued communications on Determinants and Allied Questions 1897–99: James Burgess, on the Definite Integral ... 20th/21st century
See also List of mathematics awards
References
External links Awards of Keith Prize 1827-1890 List of recent winners Announcement of Jenkin's award