Actonian Prize

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] Each year the prize was to be awarded, announcements were published, and competitors for the prize were requested to send their essays to the Secretary of Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, London, and adjudication was made by the managers and announced a few months later.[2]

The prize was named for Hannah Acton [3] who in 1838 left £1,000 to the Royal Institution in memory of her husband, the architect Samuel Acton,[4] the income from which was to be spent for prizes for the best essay on the beneficence of the Almighty, as illustrative of a department of science.[5] The Royal Institution's Actonian Prize is now given to an invited lecturer and is not competitive.[6]

The first prize of one hundred guineas was awarded to George Fownes for his Chemistry as Exemplifies the Wisdom and Beneficence of God published in 1844. At the time, he was the chemical lecturer at Middlesex Hospital.

Other recipients include:

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References

  1. ↑ - Chemistry as Exemplifies the Wisdom and Beneficence of God.
  2. ↑ "Notes," Nature, (Thursday, October 5, 1871) p. 453
  3. ↑ E.L. Youman, The Popular Science Monthly, Vol IV, 1874, p. 503
  4. ↑ Brück, Mary T. (2002). Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics. Cambridge University Press. p. 108. ISBN 9780521808446. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 Benjamin Vincent, Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, 23rd ed. 1904, p. 1073
  6. ↑ W. H. Brock, The Selection of the Authors of the Bridgewater Treatises, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 21, No. 2. (Dec., 1966), p. 177
  7. ↑ William Upcott, A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed, 1852, p.417
  8. ↑ David H. Wells (editor), Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, for 1859, p. x
  9. ↑ Benjamin Vincent, A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Vol II, 1882, p. 102
  10. ↑ "Notes," Nature, (Thursday, December 5, 1872) p. 88
  11. ↑ George Henslow, The Theory of the Evolution of Living Things (London: Macmillan, 1873) online at https://archive.org/details/theoryevolution00hensgoog
  12. ↑ Nineteenth Century Books on Evolution and Creation
  13. ↑ Proceedings By Royal Institution of Great Britain *1879, p. 283
  14. ↑ Catholic Encyclopedia
  15. ↑ Scientific Notes and News, Science, New Series, Vol. 12, No. 291. (Jul. 27, 1900), pp. 157
  16. ↑ Scientific Notes and News, Science, New Series, Vol. 25, No. 647. (May 24, 1907), p. 839.
  17. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, New Series, Vol CCCII (Jan - Jun 1907), p. 547
  18. ↑ Scientific Notes and News, Science, New Series, Vol. 53, No. 1364. (Feb. 18, 1921), p. 160
  19. ↑ Bernard Katz, "Archibald Vivian Hill," Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 24. (Nov., 1978), p. 135
  20. ↑ Scientific Notes and News, Science, New Series, Vol. 82, No. 2119. (Aug. 9, 1935), p. 122
  21. ↑ News and Notes, Science, New Series, Vol. 110, No. 2850. (Aug. 12, 1949), p. 173
  22. ↑ "Professor R. L. Wain", The Independent, Frank Taylor, 10 January 2001
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