The Matteucci Medal was established to award physicists for their fundamental contributions. Under an Italian Royal Decree dated July 10, 1870, the Italian Society of Sciences was authorized to receive a donation from Carlo Matteucci for the establishment of the Prize.
Matteucci Medalists
1868 Hermann Helmholtz
1875 Henri Victor Regnault
1876 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
1877 Gustav Kirchhoff
1878 Gustav Weidemann
1879 Wilhelm Eduard Weber
1880 Antonio Pacinotti
1881 Emilio Villari
1882 Augusto Righi
1887 Thomas Edison
1888 Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
1894 John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
1895 Henry Augustus Rowland
1896 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and Philipp Lenard
1901 Guglielmo Marconi
1903 Albert Abraham Michelson
1904 Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
1905 Henri Poincaré
1906 James Dewar
1907 William Ramsay
1908 Antonio Garbasso
1909 Orso Mario Corbino
1910 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1911 Jean Perrin
1912 Pieter Zeeman
1913 Ernest Rutherford
1914 Max von Laue
1915 Johannes Stark
1915 William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg
1917 Antonino Lo Surdo
1918 Robert W. Wood
1919 Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley
1921 Albert Einstein
1923 Niels Bohr
1924 Arnold Sommerfeld
1925 Robert Andrews Millikan
1926 Enrico Fermi
1927 Erwin Schrödinger
1928 Venkata Raman Chandrasekhara
1929 Werner Heisenberg
1930 Arthur Compton
1931 Franco Rasetti
1932 Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie
1956 Wolfgang Pauli
1975 Bruno Touschek
1978 Abdus Salam
1979 Luciano Maiani
1980 Giancarlo Wick
1982 Rudolf Peierls
1985 Hendrik Casimir
1987 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
1988 Lev B. Okun
1989 Freeman Dyson
1990 Jack Steinberger
1991 Bruno Rossi
1992 Anatole Abragam
1993 John Archibald Wheeler
1994 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1995 Tsung Dao Lee
1996 Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky
1998 Oreste Piccioni
2001 Theodor W. Hänsch
2002 Nicola Cabibbo
2003 Manuel Cardona
2004 David Ruelle
2006 Giorgio Bellettini
External links
Matteucci Medal, at the Italian National Academy of Sciences
