| Description | Unsigned proof copies of certificates, some with corrections or amendments, awarded to: Fritz Zernike (1952); Cecil Reginald Burch (1954); Frank Philip Bowden (1956); Sir Thomas Merton (1958); Alfred Gordon Gaydon (1960); Dudley Maurice Newitt (1962).
The Rumford Medal, in gold, with a silver copy, is awarded every second year 'to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement which shall be made and published...on Heat or Light...to promote the good of Mankind'. |