Copley Medal
Award given by the Royal Society of London
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| 2025 | Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. |
| June 25 2023 | Passed away at the age of 100, concluding a remarkable scientific career. |
| June 25 2023 | Passed away at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, one month before his 101st birthday. |
| July 25 2022 | Celebrated his 100th birthday. |
| August 27 2021 | Became the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate, a status he maintained until his death. |
| 2020 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. |
| April 2020 | A patent was filed for the glass battery on behalf of Portugal's National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG), the University of Porto, and the University of Texas. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, making history as the oldest Nobel laureate at 97 years old. |
| 2018 | Won the Fray International Sustainability Award from FLOGEN Star Outreach at SIPS 2018. |
| 2018 | Geim was acknowledged with the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Creativity Prize for Water for part of his water research work. |
| 2018 | Wrote foreword for 'The Map and the Territory: Exploring the foundations of science, thought and reality' by Shyam Wuppuluri and Francisco Antonio Doria, published by Springer. |
| 2018 |
Stephen Hawking
Published posthumously 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions', his final book addressing fundamental scientific and philosophical questions.
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| March 14 2018 |
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge at the age of 76, with his family present.
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| 2017 | Received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. |
| 2017 | Awarded the Welch Award in Chemistry and the C.K. Prahalad Award. |
| 2017 | Awarded the Commandino Medal at Urbino University (Italy) for contributions to the history of science. Received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree (DSc) from the University of Edinburgh. |
| February 28 2017 | Goodenough and his University of Texas team published a groundbreaking paper in Energy and Environmental Science about a glass battery with a low-cost, all-solid-state design that is noncombustible and has high energy density, though the research was met with significant scientific skepticism. |
| 2016 | Received the Carbon Medal. |
| 2016 | Published 'Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe', examining contemporary physics theories. |
| 2015 | Awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa (Dr.h.c.) by CINVESTAV (Mexico). |
| 2015 |
David Brewster
A street within the Kings Buildings complex at Edinburgh University was named in memory of David Brewster.
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| 2015 |
David Brewster
Brewster appears as a character in the video game Assassin's Creed Syndicate, where he is portrayed as a scientist working for an opposing faction and is assassinated by the protagonist Evie Frye.
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| 2014 | Received the Draper Prize in engineering. |
| 2014 |
Stephen Hawking
Biographical feature film 'The Theory of Everything' was released, starring Eddie Redmayne and documenting Hawking's life and scientific career.
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| 2013 | Awarded the Copley Medal. |
| 2013 | Awarded the National Medal of Science, presented by U.S. President Barack Obama. |
| 2013 |
Stephen Hawking
Hawking was featured in the documentary 'Hawking'.
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| June 2013 | Wrote foreword for 'Beating the Odds: The Life and Times of E. A. Milne' by Meg Weston Smith, published by World Scientific Publishing Co. |
| 2012 | Made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours for services to science and elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. |
| 2012 | Geim began studying low-dimensional water research after his Nobel Prize achievements. |
| 2012 | Awarded the Richard R. Ernst Medal by ETH Zürich (Switzerland). Received honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) degrees from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine). |
| December 2012 | Wrote foreword for 'A Computable Universe' by Hector Zenil, published by World Scientific Publishing Co. |
| 2011 | Became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| 2011 | Elected to the American Philosophical Society and awarded the Fonseca Prize by the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). |
| 2010 | Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion for his contribution to Dutch Science. |
| 2010 | Received the US National Academy of Sciences John J. Carty Award, awarded a Royal Society Anniversary Research Professorship, and received the Royal Society Hughes Medal. |
| 2010 | Elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. |
| 2010 | Published 'Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe', presenting a novel perspective on cosmological theories. |
| December 8 2010 | Delivered the Nobel Prize lecture at Stockholm University. |
| October 5 2010 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Novoselov 'for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene'. |
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