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Actonian Prize, the Glossary

The Actonian Prize was established by the Royal Institution as a septennial award for the "person who in the judgement of the committee of managers for the time being of the Institution, should have been the author of the best essay illustrative of the wisdom and beneficence of the Almighty, in such department of science as the committee of managers should, in their discretion, have selected".^[1]

18 relations: Agnes Mary Clerke, Alexander Fleming, Archibald Hill, George Ellery Hale, George Fownes, George Henslow, George Simonds Boulger, Guinea (coin), Joseph Timothy Haydn, Marie Curie, Ralph Louis Wain, Royal Institution, Samuel Acton, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Thomas Wharton Jones, William Astbury, William Huggins, William Upcott.
1844 establishments in the United Kingdom
Awards of the Royal Institution

Agnes Mary Clerke

Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an Irish astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy.

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Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

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Archibald Hill

Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research.

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George Ellery Hale

George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes; namely, the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory, 60-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, and the 200-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory.

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George Fownes

George Fownes, FRS (14 May 1815 in London – 31 January 1849) was a British chemist.

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George Henslow

George Henslow (23 March 1835, Cambridge, UK – 30 December 1925, Bournemouth) was an Anglican curate, botanist and author.

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George Simonds Boulger

George Simonds Boulger (1853–1922) was an English botanist.

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Guinea (coin)

The guinea (commonly abbreviated gn., or gns. in plural) was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold.

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Joseph Timothy Haydn

Joseph Timothy Haydn (Lisbon, Portugal, 1788 - London, 17 January 1856), was a British journalist and compiler of dictionaries, well known as the author of the Dictionary of Dates, which went through many editions from 1841, and of the Book of Dignities, 1851 (3rd revised edition, 1894).

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Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

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Ralph Louis Wain

Ralph Louis Wain CBE FRS (29 May 1911 Hyde, Cheshire – 14 December 2000 Canterbury) was a British agricultural chemist.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster.

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Samuel Acton

Samuel Acton (c. 1773 – January 1837) was an English architect, surveyor and artist.

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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist.

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Thomas Wharton Jones

Thomas Wharton Jones (9 January 1808 – 7 November 1891) was a ophthalmologist and physiologist of the 19th century.

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William Astbury

William Thomas Astbury FRS (25 February 1898 – 4 June 1961) was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules.

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William Huggins

Sir William Huggins (7 February 1824 – 12 May 1910) was a British astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife, Margaret.

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William Upcott

William Upcott (1779–1845) was an English librarian and antiquary.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actonian_Prize