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The Royal Society Medals and Awards The Royal Society Medals and Awards Table of contents Overview and timeline – Page 1 Eligibility – Page 2 Medals open for nominations – Page 8 Nomination process – Page 9 Guidance notes for submitting nominations – Page 10 Enquiries – Page 20 Overview The Royal Society has a broad range of medals including the Premier Awards, subject specific awards and medals celebrating the communication and promotion of science. All of these are awarded to recognise and celebrate excellence in science. The following document provides guidance on the timeline and eligibility criteria for the awards, the nomination process and our online nomination system Flexi-Grant. Timeline • Call for nominations opens 30 November 2020 • Call for nominations closes on 15 February 2021 • Royal Society contacts suggested referees from February to March if required. • Premier Awards, Physical and Biological Committees shortlist and seek independent referees from March to May • All other Committees score and recommend winners to the Premier Awards Committee by April • Premier Awards, Physical and Biological Committees score shortlisted nominations, review recommended winners from other Committees and recommend final winners of all awards by June • Council reviews and approves winners from Committees in July • Winners announced by August Eligibility Full details of eligibility can be found in the table. Nominees cannot be members of the Royal Society Council, Premier Awards Committee, or selection Committees overseeing the medal in question. More information about the selection committees for individual medals can be found in the table below. If the award is externally funded, nominees cannot be employed by the organisation funding the medal. Self-nominations are not accepted. Nominations are valid for three cycles of the award unless otherwise stated. Nominators are given the opportunity to update previously submitted nominations in December each year. No person should be awarded a subject-specific medal if they have already received a Royal Society Premier Award (Copley Medal, Royal Medals, Bakerian or Croonian Medal and Lecture). Winners of Royal Society subject-specific medals remain eligible for future subject-specific awards and Premier Awards. Winners of Royal Society Premier Awards remain eligible for another Premier Award, excluding winning multiple Royal Medals. Please check the following table to check the eligibility criteria before nominating someone for an award. Please note not all medals are open to nomination every year. The full list of medals open for nomination this year is available below the table. Eligibility Table: Note – not all medals are open for nomination each year Stated purpose Eligibility Gift Career stage (if Nomination validity Selection stated) Committee Premier awards Copley Medal For outstanding achievements in International £25,000 Senior 3 award cycles Premier Awards any field of science (alternates Committee physical and biological science each year) Croonian Medal Premier lecture in biological International £10,000 Senior 3 award cycles Premier Awards and Lecture sciences Committee Bakerian Medal Premier lecture in physical sciences International £10,000 Senior 3 award cycles Premier Awards and Lecture Committee Royal Medal – For outstanding achievements in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £10,000 Senior 3 award cycles Premier Awards physical physical sciences Republic citizens or Committee sciences residents for 3 or more years Royal Medal – For outstanding achievements in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £10,000 Senior 3 award cycles Premier Awards biological biological sciences Republic citizens or Committee sciences residents for 3 or more years Royal Medal – For outstanding achievements in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £10,000 Senior 3 award cycles Premier Awards applied applied sciences Republic citizens or Committee sciences residents for 3 or more years Physical sciences medals Clifford For an outstanding researcher in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Physical Sciences Paterson Medal the field of engineering Republic citizens or Awards Committee and Lecture residents for 3 or more years Davy Medal For an outstanding researcher in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Physical Sciences the field of chemistry Republic citizens or Awards Committee residents for 3 or more years Hughes Medal For an outstanding researcher in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Physical Sciences the field of energy Republic citizens or Awards Committee residents for 3 or more years Royal Society For outstanding achievement in European citizen or £5,000 3 award cycles Milner Award Milner Award computer science by a European resident for at least 12 Committee researcher or researcher who has months. had European residency for 12 Nominees cannot be months or more1 employed by Microsoft Research. Leverhulme For an outstanding researcher in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Physical Sciences Medal the field of chemical engineering Republic citizens or Awards Committee and applied chemistry residents for 3 or more years Royal Society For outstanding, pioneering and UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 Mid-career/senior 3 award cycles Armourers & Brasiers' Armourers and innovating materials science Republic citizens or Company Prize Brasiers’ research with potential for residents for 3 or more Committee Company Prize application years Rumford Medal For an outstanding researcher in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Physical Sciences the field of physics Republic citizens or Awards Committee residents for 3 or more years Sylvester Medal For an outstanding researcher in UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Physical Sciences the field of mathematics Republic citizens or Awards Committee residents for 3 or more years Biological sciences medals Buchanan For distinguished contributions to UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Biological Sciences Medal the biomedical sciences Republic citizens or Awards Committee 1 ‘“European researchers” to include Council of Europe members and other countries within the landmass of Europe.’ residents for 3 or more years Darwin Medal For work of acknowledged UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Biological Sciences distinction in evolution, biological Republic citizens or Awards Committee diversity and developmental, residents for 3 or more population and organismal biology years Ferrier Medal For distinguished contributions on UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Biological Sciences and Lecture the structure and function of the Republic citizens or Awards Committee nervous system residents for 3 or more years Francis Crick On any field in the biological UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 Early career, <15 3 award cycles Biological Sciences Medal and sciences. Preference is given to Republic citizens or years post PhD Awards Committee Lecture genetics, molecular biology and residents for 3 or more neurobiology, the general areas in years which Francis Crick worked, and to fundamental theoretical work, which was the hallmark of Crick’s science Leeuwenhoek To recognise excellence in the field UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Biological Sciences Medal and of microbiology, bacteriology, Republic citizens or Awards Committee Lecture virology, mycology and residents for 3 or more parasitology, and microscopy. years Interdisciplinary medals and those celebrating the communication and promotion of science Royal Society To recognise research scientists African scientists £17,000 3 award cycles Biological and Africa Prize* based in Africa who are making an (£15,000 Physical Science innovative contribution to the research Awards Committee sciences, which contributes grant and significantly to capacity building the personal gift Africa. of £2,000) Royal Society To recognise early-career research African scientists £15,000 Early career, <8 years 3 award cycles Physical Science Rising Star scientists based in Africa who are (£14,000 post PhD Awards Committee Africa Prize* making an innovative contribution to research the physical, mathematical and grant and engineering sciences. personal gift of £1,000) Royal Society Awarded to an individual for UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,500 3 award cycles Public Engagement David outstanding and sustained public Republic citizens or Committee Attenborough engagement with science residents for 3 or more Prize and years Lecture Gabor Medal For acknowledged distinction of UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,000 3 award cycles Biological and interdisciplinary work between the Republic citizens or Physical Science life sciences with other disciplines residents for 3 or more Awards Committee years Kavli Education For impact in the field of science UK/Commonwealth/Irish £1,000 3 award cycles Education Committee Medal and and mathematics education Republic citizens or Lecture residents for 3 or more years Kavli Medal and For excellence in all fields of UK/Commonwealth/Irish £1,000 Early career, <15 3 award cycles Biological and Lecture science and engineering relevant to Republic citizens or years post PhD Physical Science the environment residents for 3 or more Awards Committee years Michael To the scientist or engineer whose UK/Commonwealth/Irish £2,500 3 award cycles Public Engagement Faraday Prize expertise in communicating Republic citizens or Committee and Lecture* scientific ideas in lay terms is residents for 3 or more exemplary years Rosalind To support the promotion of women UK citizens or residents £40,000 Early career, <20 3 award cycles Rosalind Franklin Franklin
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