{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} [[File:Lord Kelvin's Keith medal in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.png|thumb|300px|Lord Kelvin's Keith medal in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow]] The '''Keith Medal''' was a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.
The Medal was inaugurated in 1827 as a result of a gift from Alexander Keith of Dunnottar, the first Treasurer of the Society. It was awarded quadrennially, alternately for a paper published in: Proceedings A (Mathematics) or Transactions (Earth and Environmental Sciences). The medal bears the head of John Napier of Merchiston.
The medal is no longer awarded.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://rse.mtcserver6.com/661_KeithMedal.html|title= Keith Medal|publisher= RSE|accessdate= 17 March 2017|archive-date= 22 April 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180422202318/http://rse.mtcserver6.com/661_KeithMedal.html|url-status= dead}}</ref>
==Recipients of the Keith Gold Medal== Source (1827 to 1913): [https://archive.org/stream/proceedings3419131914roya/proceedings3419131914roya_djvu.txt Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh] ;19th century *1827–29: David Brewster,<ref name = KM1/> ''on his Discovery of Two New Immiscible Fluids in the Cavities of certain Minerals'' *1829–31: David Brewster,<ref name = KM1/> ''on a New Analysis of Solar Light'' *1831–33: Thomas Graham,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.strath.ac.uk/science/news_and_events/ |title=News and Events |publisher=University of Strathclyde |accessdate=28 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205144306/http://www.strath.ac.uk/science/news_and_events/ |archivedate= 5 December 2014 }}</ref><ref name = KM1/> ''on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases'' *1833–35: James David Forbes,<ref name = KM1/> ''on the Refraction and Polarization of Heat'' *1835–37: John Scott Russell,<ref name = KM2/> ''on Hydrodynamics'' *1837–39: John Shaw,<ref name= CJO>{{cite journal|title= Keith Awards 1827-1890|journal= Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|volume= 36|issue= 3|pages= 767–770|doi= 10.1017/S0080456800037984|year= 1892|s2cid= 251574207}}</ref> ''on the Development and Growth of the Salmon'' *1839–41: ''Not awarded''<ref name = CJO/> *1841–43: James David Forbes,<ref name = KM1/> ''on Glaciers'' *1843–45: ''Not awarded''<ref name = CJO/> *1845–47: Sir Thomas Brisbane,<ref name = CJO/> ''for the Makerstoun Observations on Magnetic Phenomena'' *1847–49: ''Not awarded''<ref name = CJO/> *1849–51: Philip Kelland,<ref name = KM2>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh|accessdate=27 November 2014|archive-date=16 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116140212/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''on General Differentiation, including his more recent Communication on a process of the Differential Calculus, and its application to the solution of certain Differential Equations'' *1851–53: William John Macquorn Rankine,<ref name = KM2/> ''on the Mechanical Action of Heat'' *1853–55: Thomas Anderson,<ref name = KM1>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh|accessdate=29 November 2014|archive-date=19 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919152306/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''on the Crystalline Constituents of Opium, and on the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances'' *1855–57: George Boole,<ref name = CJO/> ''on the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to Questions of the Combination of Testimonies and Judgments'' *1857–59: ''Not awarded''<ref name = CJO/> *1859–61: John Allan Broun, ''on the Horizontal Force of the Earth’s Magnetism, on the Correction of the Bifilar Magnetometer, and on Terrestrial Magnetism generally'' *1861–63: William Thomson,<ref name = KM2/> ''on some Kinematical and Dynamical Theorems'' *1863–65: James David Forbes,<ref name = KM1/> ''for Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Iron Bars'' *1865–67: Charles Piazzi Smyth,<ref name = KM2/> ''on Recent Measures at the Great Pyramid'' *1867–69: Peter Guthrie Tait,<ref name = KM2/> ''on the Rotation of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Point'' *1869–71: James Clerk Maxwell,<ref name = KM2/> ''on Figures, Frames, and Diagrams of Forces'' *1871–73: Peter Guthrie Tait,<ref name = KM2/> ''First Approximation to a Thermo-electric Diagram'' *1873–75: Alexander Crum Brown,<ref name = KM1/> ''on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical Relations of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal Ear'' *1875–77: Matthew Forster Heddle,<ref name = KM1/> ''on the Rhombohedral Carbonates'' and ''on the Felspars of Scotland'' *1877–79: Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin,<ref name = KM1/> ''on the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery'' *1879–81: George Chrystal,<ref name = KM1/> ''on the Differential Telephone'' *1881–83: Sir Thomas Muir,<ref name = KM2/> ''Researches into the Theory of Determinants and Continued Fractions'' *1883–85: John Aitken,<ref>{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Aitken, John}}</ref> ''on the Formation of Small Clear Spaces in Dusty Air'' *1885–87: John Young Buchanan,<ref name = KM1/> ''for a series of communications, extending over several years, on subjects connected with Ocean Circulation, Compressibility of Glass, etc.'' *1887–89: Edmund Albert Letts,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his papers on the Organic Compounds of Phosphorus'' *1889–91: Robert Traill Omond,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his contributions to Meteorological Science'' *1891–93: Sir Thomas Richard Fraser,<ref name = KM1/> ''for his papers on Strophanthus hispidus, Strophanthin, and Strophanthidin'' *1893–95: Cargill Gilston Knott,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his papers on the Strains produced by Magnetism in Iron and in Nickel'' *1895–97: Sir Thomas Muir,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his continued communications on Determinants and Allied Questions'' *1897–99: James Burgess,<ref>{{cite journal|title= Obituary-James Burgess| doi=10.1080/14702541608541591|volume=32|issue = 11|journal=Scottish Geographical Magazine|pages=535–538|year = 1916}}</ref><ref name = KM1/> ''on the Definite Integral ...''
;20th/21st century {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1899–1901: Hugh Marshall,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his discovery of the Persulphates, and for his Communications on the Properties and Reactions of these Salts'' *1901–03: Sir William Turner,<ref name = KM2/> ''for A Contribution to the Craniology of the People of Scotland'' and ''Contributions to the Craniology of the People of the Empire of India'' *1903–05: Thomas Hastie Bryce,<ref name = KM1/> ''for his two papers on The Histology of the Blood of the Larva of Lepidosiren paradoxa'' *1905–07: Alexander Bruce,<ref name = KM2/> ''on the Distribution of the Cells in the Intermedio-Lateral Tract of the Spinal Cord'' *1907–09: Wheelton Hind, ''On the Lamellibranch and Gasteropod Fauna found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland'' *1909–11: Alexander Smith,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his researches upon Sulphur and upon Vapour Pressure'' *1911–13: James Russell,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his series of investigations relating to magnetic phenomena in metals and the molecular theory of magnetism'' *1913–15: James Hartley Ashworth<ref name = KM1/> *1915–17: Robert Cockburn Mossmann<ref name = KM2/> *1917–19: John Stephenson<ref name = KM2/> *1919–21: Ralph Allan Sampson<ref name = KM2/> *1921–23: John Walter Gregory<ref name = KM1/> *1923–25: Herbert Westren Turnbull<ref name = KM2/> *1925–27: Robert Meldrum Craig<ref name = KM1/> jointly with ? *1927–29: Christina Miller<ref name = KM2/> *1929–31: Alan William Greenwood<ref name = KM1/> *1931–33: Arthur Crichton Mitchell,<ref name = KM2/> ''for his work on geomagnetism'' *1933–35: Lancelot Thomas Hogben<ref name = KM1/> *1935–37: Harold Stanley Ruse<ref name = KM2/> *1937–39: Francis Albert Eley Crew<ref name = KM1/> *1939–41: Sir William Hunter McCrea<ref name = KM2/> jointly with Edward Copson<ref name = KM1/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Extras/Copson_Professor.html |title=Copson Professor |accessdate=2010-02-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607140306/http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Extras/Copson_Professor.html |archivedate=2011-06-07 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U0lAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gVkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6395%2C1703292 |title=The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Keith Prize Award |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=2 June 1942 |page=5 |accessdate=17 March 2017}}</ref> *1941–43: James Ritchie<ref name = KM2/> *1943–45: William Leonard Edge<ref name = KM1/> *1945–47: Charlotte Auerbach<ref name = KM1/> *1947–49: Arthur Geoffrey Walker<ref name = KM2/> *1949–51: Alastair Graham<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malacsoc.org.uk/malacological_bulletin/BULL37/OBITUARY.htm|title=Professor Alistair Graham FRS|publisher= Malacological Society|accessdate= 17 November 2017}}</ref> *1951–53: Daniel Edwin Rutherford<ref name = KM2/> *1953–55: Alexander David Peacock<ref name = KM2/> *1955–57: Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington<ref name = KM1/> *1957–59: John Barclay Tait<ref name = KM2/> *1959–61: *1961–63: Robert Alexander Rankin<ref name = KM2/> *1963–65: Reinhold Henry Furth<ref name = KM1/> *1965–67: Alexander John Haddow<ref name = KM1/> *1967–69: Henry Jack<ref name = KM1/> *1969–71: Charles Dewar Waterston<ref name = RSE2013>{{cite web| url =http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/publications/directory/directory_nolist.pdf| title =Directory 2013/2014| publisher =RSE| accessdate =29 November 2014| archive-date =2 March 2014| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140302044028/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/publications/directory/directory_nolist.pdf| url-status =dead}}</ref> *1971–73: Douglas Samuel Jones<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/Jones_DS.pdf|title=Douglas Samuel Jones|publisher= Royal Society of Edinburgh|accessdate=17 November 2017}}</ref> *1973–75: Kenneth Lyon Blaxter<ref name = KM1/> *1975–77: Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/obituaries/obituary/michael-stephen|title=Professor Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham|publisher= Cardiff University|accessdate= 17 November 2017}}</ref> *1977–79: Brian John Bluck<ref name = RSE2013/> *1979–81: John Mackintosh Howie *1981–83: John Heslop-Harrison<ref name = KM1/> *1983–85: John Bryce McLeod<ref name = RSE2013/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/12898| title=Professor John Bryce McLeod FRS FRSE (1929 - 2014)|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=28 November 2014}}</ref> *1985–87: *1987–89: John Macleod Ball<ref name = RSE2013/> *1989–91: *1991–93: *1993–95: Euan Clarkson (78th award)<ref name = RSE2013/> *1995–97: ''No award'' *1997–99: Vladimír Šverák (79th award) *1999–2001: *2001–03: ''No award'' *2005: ''No award'' *2006: Antonio DeSimone, Stefan Müller, Robert Kohn, Felix Otto * ''Medal no longer awarded (though a 2011 edition had been planned)'' }}
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==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8735503 Awards of Keith Prize 1827-1890] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081122042710/http://www.rse.org.uk/research_fellowships/prizes/winners.htm List of recent winners] *[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v22/n549/abs/022016a0.html Announcement of Jenkin's award]
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