Davy Medal

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, the first recipients of the award. They were awarded the medal "for their researches & discoveries in spectrum analysis".

The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry".^[1]^[2] Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a monetary gift, initially of £1000 (currently £2000).^[3] Receiving the Davy Medal has been identified as a potential precursor to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,^[4] with 22 scientists as of 2022 having been awarded the medal prior to becoming Nobel laureates, according to an analysis by the Royal Society of Chemistry.^[5]

^ "Davy Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
^ Boas Hall, Marie (2002). All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-521-89263-6.
^ "Davy Medal". royalsociety.org.
^ Ma, Yifang; Uzzi, Brian (December 10, 2018). "Scientific prize network predicts who pushes the boundaries of science". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (50): 12608–12615. doi:10.1073/pnas.1800485115. PMC 6294901. PMID 30530666.
^ Walter, Patrick (5 October 2022). "The 2022 chemistry Nobel prize goes to bioorthogonal and click chemistry – as it happened". Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 26 February 2023.

[rs-1] "Davy Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 2011-08-05.

[2] Boas Hall, Marie (2002). All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-521-89263-6.

[3] "Davy Medal". royalsociety.org.

[PNAS-4] Ma, Yifang; Uzzi, Brian (December 10, 2018). "Scientific prize network predicts who pushes the boundaries of science". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (50): 12608–12615. doi:10.1073/pnas.1800485115. PMC 6294901. PMID 30530666.

[5] Walter, Patrick (5 October 2022). "The 2022 chemistry Nobel prize goes to bioorthogonal and click chemistry – as it happened". Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 26 February 2023.

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