Awards & Winners

1882 Rumford Medal

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Rumford Medal

William de Wiveleslie Abney

(For his photographic researches and his discovery of the method of photographing the less refrangible part of the spectrum, especially the infra-red region; also for his researches on the absorption of various compound bodies in this part of the spectrum.)