Medals, Awards
& Prize lectures

This is a full list of the medals, awards and prizes provided by the Royal Society.

Premier Awards

• Copley Medal
  For outstanding achievements in either the physical or biological sciences.
• Royal Medal
  For the most important contributions in the physical, biological and applied sciences.
• Bakerian Lecture
  The premier lecture in the physical sciences.
• Croonian Lecture
  The premier lecture in the biological sciences.

Medals

• Buchanan Medal
  For distinguished contributions to the medical sciences.
• Darwin Medal
  For work of acknowledged distinction in evolution, population biology, organismal biology and biological diversity.
• Davy Medal
  For important discoveries in chemistry.
• Gabor Medal
  For interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines.
• Hughes Medal
  For original discoveries relating to the generation, storage and use of energy.
• Kavli Education Medal
  For impact in the field of science and mathematics education.
• Leverhulme Medal
  For significant contributions to chemistry or engineering.
• Royal Society King Charles II Medal
  For foreign Heads of State or Government who have made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country.
• Rumford Medal
  For important discoveries in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter.
• Sylvester Medal
  For mathematical research.

Prize lectures

• Clifford Paterson Lecture
  Given on a subject in the field of engineering.
• Ferrier Lecture
  Given on a subject relating to the structure and function of the nervous system.
• Francis Crick Lecture
  Given on a subject in the field of biology.
• Kavli Medal and Lecture
  Given on a subject relating to the environment or energy.
• Leeuwenhoek Lecture
  Given on a subject in the field of microbiology, bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, and microscopy.
• Michael Faraday Prize
  For excellence in communicating science to UK audiences
• Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize and Lecture
  For original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences.
• Royal Society Milner Award
  For outstanding achievement in computer science.
• Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture
  To support the promotion of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
• Rutherford Memorial Lecture
  An exchange lecture between university centres in the Commonwealth, with at least one in three delivered in New Zealand.
• Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture
  Given on a subject relating to the social function of science, the philosophy of science or the history of science.

Awards

• Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers' Company Prize
  For excellence in materials science and technology.
• Royal Society Kohn Award
  For excellence in engaging the public with science.
• Royal Society Mercer Prize
  For research that has been commercially exploited for significant wealth generation of societal benefit in the UK.
• Royal Society Mullard Award
  For individuals whose work has the potential to make a contribution to national prosperity.
• Royal Society Pfizer Award
  For scientists working in the biological sciences to promote capacity-building in Africa.
• Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
  Celebrates the best in popular science writing.
• Royal Society Young People's Book Prize
  Celebrates the best books that communicate science to young people.

Past medals, awards and prize lectures

These medals, awards and prize lectures are now no longer presented.