The Howard N. Potts Medal was one of

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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 (Physics) *1912 -

William Arthur Bone William Arthur Bone, Fellow of the Royal Society, 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 Eliz ...

(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 a professor at Cornell University and served as secretary of the American Society of Agronomy from 1907 to 1909. L ...

(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." He furthered the use of suspension bridges and oversaw the desig ...

(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, 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 an American military officer who served as Colonel (United States), colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the son of Union Navy Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren and ...

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

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

(Engineering) *1918 - Louis Vessot King (Engineering) *1919 -

Reynold Janney Reynold is an English masculine given name that comes from an Old High German personal name made up of the element "ragin" (''advice, decision'') and "wald" (''power, authority, brightness''). It is a cognate of ''Rögnvaldr'', which is also a sou ...

(Engineering) *1919 - Clarence P. Landreth (Chemistry) *1919 - Harvey D. Williams (Engineering) *1920 - Wendell Addison Barker (Invention) *1920 -

Edward P. Bullard, Jr. Edward Payson Bullard Jr. (July 10, 1872 – June 26, 1953) was an American engineer, president of the Bullard Machine Tool Company for 40 years, and inventor. He was awarded the ASME Medal in 1937. Bullard was born in Columbus, Ohio, as son of Ed ...

(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 use ...

(Life Science) *1921 - Alfred O. Tate (Engineering) *1922 - Ernest George Coker (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 language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and i ...

(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 Scienc ...

(Chemistry) for X-ray crystallography *1924 -

John August Anderson John August Anderson (August 7, 1876 – December 2, 1959) was an American astronomer who made significant contributions to improving astronomical instruments in the early 20th century, especially diffraction gratings. Biography John August Anders ...

(Engineering) *1924 -

William Gaertner William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is ...

(Engineering) *1925 -

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish meteorologist and particle physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber. Education and earl ...

(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 ...

(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 (; 3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was an English physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”. Educa ...

(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 ...

(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 (Physics) *1942 -

Harcourt Colborne Drake Harcourt may refer to: People *Harcourt (surname) * Harcourt (given name) Places Canada * Harcourt Parish, New Brunswick *Harcourt, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community * Harcourt, Ontario, a village * Harcourt, Newfoundland and Labra ...

(Engineering) *1942 -

Bernard Lyot Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (2 7 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 ...

(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 Trai ...

(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 Ernes ...

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

Eugene Jules Houdry Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, France, April 18, 1892 – Upper Darby Township, 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 ...

(Chemistry) *1948 - Clarence A. Lovell (Engineering) *1948 -

David Bigelow Parkinson David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

(Engineering) *1949 - J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (Computer and Cognitive Science) *1949 -

Clinton Richards Hanna Clinton is an English toponymic surname, indicating one's ancestors came from English places called Glympton or Glinton.Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. ''A Dictionary of Surnames''. Oxford University Press, 1988 Clinton has also been used as a given na ...

(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 fir ...

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

Eric Leighton Holmes Eric Leighton Holmes was a British chemist who developed ion exchange resin An ion-exchange resin or ion-exchange polymer is a resin or polymer that acts as a medium for ion exchange, that is also known as an ionex. It is an solubility, insolu ...

(Chemistry) *1956 -

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

(Engineering) *1958 - William Nelson Goodwin, Jr. (Engineering) *1958 -

Emanuel Rosenberg Emanuel may refer to: * Emanuel (name), a given name and surname (see there for a list of people with this name) * Emanuel School, Australia, Sydney, Australia * Emanuel School, Battersea, London, England * Emanuel (band), a five-piece rock band f ...

(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 Instrumentat ...

(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 s ...

(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, practical, and fully contro ...

(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 open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the A ...

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

Charles Howard Vollum Charles Howard Vollum (May 31, 1913 – February 5, 1986) was an American electronics engineer, businessman, and philanthropist in Oregon, United States. He was the co-founder of Tektronix Corporation, and endowed the Vollum Institute. Bac ...

(Engineering) *1974 -

Jay Wright Forrester Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as a graduate student in 1 ...

(Engineering) *1975 - LeGrand G. Van Uitert (Engineering) *1976 -

Stephanie L. Kwolek Stephanie Louise Kwolek (; July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was an American chemist best known for inventing Kevlar (poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide). Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. For her discovery, Kwolek was ...

(Engineering) *1976 - Paul W. Morgan (Engineering) *1977 - Godfrey N. Hounsfield (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 Polis ...

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

References

{{Reflist Science and technology awards Franklin Institute awards Awards established in 1911 1911 establishments in Pennsylvania

Laureates

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