Keith Medal

Recipients of the Keith Gold Medal

• 1827–29: David Brewster, on his Discovery of Two New Immiscible Fluids in the Cavities of certain Minerals
• 1829–31: David Brewster, on a New Analysis of Solar Light
• 1831–33: Thomas Graham, on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases
• 1833–35: James David Forbes, on the Refraction and Polarization of Heat
• 1835–37: John Scott Russell, on Hydrodynamics
• 1837–39: John Shaw, on the Development and Growth of the Salmon
• 1839–41: Not awarded
• 1841–43: James David Forbes, on Glaciers
• 1843–45: Not awarded
• 1845–47: Sir Thomas Brisbane, for the Makerstoun Observations on Magnetic Phenomena
• 1847–49: Not awarded
• 1849–51: Philip Kelland, 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, on the Mechanical Action of Heat
• 1853–55: Thomas Anderson, on the Crystalline Constituents of Opium, and on the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances
• 1855–57: George Boole, on the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to Questions of the Combination of Testimonies and Judgments
• 1857–59: Not awarded
• 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,on some Kinematical and Dynamical Theorems
• 1863–65: James David Forbes, for Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Iron Bars
• 1865–67: Charles Piazzi Smyth, on Recent Measures at the Great Pyramid
• 1867–69: Peter Guthrie Tait, on the Rotation of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Point
• 1869–71: James Clerk Maxwell, on Figures, Frames, and Diagrams of Forces
• 1871–73: Peter Guthrie Tait, First Approximation to a Thermo-electric Diagram
• 1873–75: Alexander Crum Brown, on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical Relations of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal Ear
• 1875–77: Matthew Forster Heddle, on the Rhombohedral Carbonates and on the Felspars of Scotland
• 1877–79: Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery
• 1879–81: George Chrystal, on the Differential Telephone
• 1881–83: Sir Thomas Muir, Researches into the Theory of Determinants and Continued Fractions
• 1883–85: John Aitken, on the Formation of Small Clear Spaces in Dusty Air
• 1885–87: John Young Buchanan,for a series of communications, extending over several years, on subjects connected with Ocean Circulation, Compressibility of Glass, etc.
• 1887–89: Edmund Albert Letts, for his papers on the Organic Compounds of Phosphorus
• 1889–91: Robert Traill Omond, for his contributions to Meteorological Science
• 1891–93: Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, for his papers on Strophanthus hispidus, Strophanthin, and Strophanthidin
• 1893–95: Cargill Gilston Knott, for his papers on the Strains produced by Magnetism in Iron and in Nickel
• 1895–97: Sir Thomas Muir, for his continued communications on Determinants and Allied Questions
• 1897–99: James Burgess, on the Definite Integral...