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{{short description|Scientific award}}
[[File:John Price Wetherill (1844–1906).png|thumb|right|150px|John Price Wetherill]]
The '''John Price Wetherill Medal''' was an award of the Franklin Institute.  It was established with a bequest given by the family of John Price Wetherill (1844–1906) on April 3, 1917.  On June 10, 1925, the Board of Managers voted to create a silver medal, to be awarded for "discovery or invention in the physical sciences" or "new and important combinations of principles or methods already known".  The legend on the first medal read: "for discovery, invention, or development in the physical sciences".<ref name=1921YearBook>{{cite book|title=Year Book - Franklin Institute|date=1921|page=57|publisher=Franklin Institute|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lh4wAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA57|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref> The John Price Wetherill Medal was last awarded in 1997.<ref name=Capasso/>  As of 1998 all of the endowed medals previously awarded by the Franklin Institute were reorganized as the Benjamin Franklin Medals.<ref name=Awards1998>{{cite web|title=Awards Program History|url=https://www.fi.edu/awards-history|website=Franklin Institute|accessdate=5 June 2015}}</ref>

== Recipients ==
* 1926 Frank Twyman, Wagner Electric Corporation<ref name=1919YearBook>{{cite book|title=Year Book - Franklin Institute|date=1919|page=92|publisher=Franklin Institute|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LAVAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA92|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1927 Carl Ethan Akeley, North East Appliances Inc.<ref name=Firth>{{cite book|editor-last1=Firth|editor-first1=Margaret A.|title=Handbook of scientific and technical awards in the United States and Canada, 1900-1952|date=1956|page=292|url=http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/d23d381a-642a-4cb1-bd42-5373f518ed1d/lemur/7318.sgml|place=New York|publisher=Special Libraries Association}}</ref>
* 1928 Albert S. Howell, [[Biography:Frank Elmore Ross|Frank E. Ross]]<ref name=Howell>{{cite book|title=Year Book - Franklin Institute|date=1928|page=78|publisher=Franklin Institute|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LAVAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA7-PA78|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1929 Gustave Fast, William H. Mason, Johannes Ruths
* 1930 Charles S. Chrisman, William N. Jennings<ref name=Jennings>{{cite web|title=The Case Files: William Jennings, Unlike Any Other|url=http://learn.fi.edu/learn/case-files/jennings/other.html|website=The Franklin Institute|accessdate=5 June 2015|date=2014-01-14}}</ref>
* 1931 Thomas Tarvin Gray, Arthur J. Mason, Edwin G. Steele, Walter L. Steele, Henry M. Sutton, Edward C. Wente<ref name=EdwinSteele>{{cite news|title=Edwin G. Steele / Death Claims Manufacturer, Award Winner|url=http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jwheat/biographies/edwin_steele.html|accessdate=5 June 2015|work=The Dallas Morning News|date=September 4, 1938}}</ref>
* 1932 Halvor O. Hem, Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Carl George Munters, Baltzar von Platen, Frank Wenner
* 1933 Henry S. Hulbert, Industrial Brownhoist Corporation, Koppers Company, [[Biography:Francis Charles McMath|Francis C. McMath]], Robert R. McMath
* 1934 E. Newton Harvey, Alfred L. Loomis, Johannes B. Ostermeier
* 1935 F. Hope-Jones,<ref name=Day1998>{{cite book|last1=Day|first1=Lance|last2=McNeil|first2=Ian|title=Biographical dictionary of the history of technology|date=1998|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0415193993|pages=1106–1107|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m8TsygLyfSMC&pg=PA1106|accessdate=5 June 2015}}</ref> Francis Ferdinand Lucas, Robert E. Naumburg,<ref name=Blind1935>{{cite news|title=Boon for the Blind|url=http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=TUC19350613.2.66|accessdate=5 June 2015|work=Urbana Daily Courier|date=13 June 1935}}</ref> William H. Shortt, James Edmond Shrader,<ref name=Inquirer1935>{{cite news|title=Inventor wins medal|url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer%201935/Philadelphia%20PA%20Inquirer%201935%20-%200080.pdf|accessdate=5 June 2015|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=May 3, 1935}}</ref> Louis Bryant Tuckermann, Henry Ellis Warren
* 1936 Albert L. Marsh
* 1939 William Albert Hyde
* 1940 Laurens Hammond, Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt, Howard L. Krum
* 1941 [[Biography:Harold Stephen Black|Harold Stephen Black]]
* 1943 Robert Howland Leach<ref name=Leach>{{cite news|title=R. H. Leach, 84, Southport, Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/60127235/|accessdate=5 June 2015|work=The Bridgeport Post|date=January 27, 1963}}</ref>
* 1944 Richard C. DuPont, Willem Fredrik Westendorp
* 1946 [[Biography:Lewis A. Rodert|Lewis A. Rodert]]
* 1947 Kenneth S. M. Davidson
* 1948 Wendell Frederick Hess
* 1949 Edgar Collins Bain, Thomas L. Fawick,<ref name=Cleveland>{{cite web|title=FAWICK, THOMAS L.|url=http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=FTL|website=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|accessdate=5 June 2015}}</ref> [[Biography:Harlan D. Fowler|Harlan D. Fowler]]<ref name="SNAC">{{cite web |title=Fowler, Harlan D., 1895-1982 |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6hb6vw6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher=SNAC |accessdate=16 July 2020}}</ref>
* 1950 [[Biography:Donald William Kerst|Donald William Kerst]], Sigurd Varian, Russell Varian
* 1951 [[Biography:Samuel Collins (physicist)|Samuel C. Collins]], Reid Berry Gray, Gaylord W. Penney
* 1952 Martin E. Nordberg, Harrison P. Hood, Albert J. Williams Junior,
* 1953 Robert H. Dalton,<ref name=Personals>{{cite journal|title=Personals|url=http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/149/1/Personals.pdf|accessdate=5 June 2015|journal=Engineering and Science|volume=17|issue=3|page=40|date=1953}}</ref> Stanley Donald Stookey
* 1954 William D. Buckingham,<ref name=Buckingham>{{cite web|title=William D. Buckingham Papers|url=http://library.case.edu/ksl/collections/special/manuscripts/buckingham/buckingham.html|website=Kelvin Smith Library|publisher=Case Western Reserve University}}</ref> [[Biography:Clarence N. Hickman|Clarence Nichols Hickman]], Edwin T. Lorig
* 1955 Louis M. Moyroud, Rene A. Higonnet, Jacques Yves Pierre SeJournet
* 1957 Warren W. Carpenter, Martin Company,
* 1958 Henry Boot, [[Biography:James Sayers (physicist)|J. Sayers]], John Randall<ref name=DayBoot>{{cite book|last1=Day|first1=Lance|last2=McNeil|first2=Ian|title=Biographical dictionary of the history of technology|date=1998|chapter=Boot, Henry Albert Howard|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0415193993|edition=1st|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmoTeX3aGl4C&pg=PT152|accessdate=5 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1959 Robert B. Aitchison, Archer J. P. Martin, Anthony Trafford James, [[Biography:Clarence Zener|Clarence Zener]], [[Biography:Richard Laurence Millington Synge|R. L. M. Synge]]
* 1960 [[Biography:Raimond Castaing|Raimond Castaing]], Walter Juda, Victor Vacquier
* 1961 Albert E. Hitchcock, Percy W. Zimmerman<ref name=Zimmerman>{{cite journal|title=Wetherill Medals|journal=Chem. Eng. News|date=August 7, 1961|volume=39|issue=32|pages=74–79, 91|doi=10.1021/cen-v039n032.p074|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* 1962 [[Biography:Ernest Ambler|Ernest Ambler]], Raymond Webster Hayward, Dale Dubois Hoppes, Ralph P. Hudson, Stanley Donald Stookey, [[Biography:Chien-Shiung Wu|Chien-Shiung Wu]]<ref name=Parity>{{cite web|title=The Fall of Parity|url=https://www.nist.gov/pml/general/parity/photos.cfm|website=National Institute of Standards and Technology|accessdate=5 June 2015|date=2015-04-28}}</ref>
* 1963 Daryl M. Chapin, Calvin Souther Fuller, [[Biography:Gerald Pearson|Gerald L. Pearson]]
* 1964 Howard Aiken, [[Biography:John Eugene Kunzler|John Eugene Kunzler]], John Kenneth Hulm, Bernd Matthias
* 1965 [[Biography:Edward C. T. Chao|Edward Ching-Te Chao]], Wendell F. Moore, [[Biography:John Reynolds (physicist)|John Hamilton Reynolds]], [[Biography:Frederick Rossini|Frederick D. Rossini]], [[Biography:Eugene Merle Shoemaker|Eugene Shoemaker]], Fred Noel Spiess<ref name=Spiess>{{cite web|title=Obituary Notice Pioneer in Ocean Technology: Fred N. Spiess|url=https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/2591|website=Scripps Institution of Oceanography|publisher=UC San Diego|accessdate=September 11, 2006|archive-date=April 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413190245/https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/2591|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1966 Howard G. Rogers, Britton Chance<ref>{{cite web|url=https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/britton-chance-1913-2010/|title=Britton Chance, 1913-2010|publisher=The Pauling Blog|accessdate= 6 June 2017|date=2010-12-16}}</ref>
* 1967 [[Biography:Ernest O. Wollan|Ernest Omar Wollan]]
* 1968 [[Biography:Nathan Cohn|Nathan Cohn]]
* 1969 [[Biography:George Cowan|George R. Cowan]], John J. Douglass, Arnold H. Holtzman<ref name=Douglass>{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Stacy V.|title=Explosives used to join metals|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/20/explosives-used-to-join-metals.html?_r=0|accessdate=5 June 2015|work=The New York Times|date=June 20, 1964}}</ref>
* 1970 Paul D. Bartlett
* 1971 Felix Wankel
* 1972 [[Biography:Otto Schmitt|Otto Herbert Schmitt]]
* 1973 A. R. Howell
* 1974 [[Biography:Aage Bohr|Aage Bohr]], [[Biography:Ben Roy Mottelson|Ben Mottelson]]
* 1975 [[Biography:Donald N. Langenberg|Donald Newton Langenberg]], [[Biography:William H. Parker (physicist)|William Henry Parker]], Barry Norman Taylor<ref name=Adventures>{{cite book|last1=Langenberg|first1=Donald|chapter=One Researcher’s Personal Account|title=Adventures in Physics|date=1972 |place= Princeton, NJ | publisher= World Science Communications |chapter-url=http://physics111.lib.berkeley.edu/Physics111/Reprints/JOS/09-Observation_of_Josephson_Effect.pdf}}</ref>
* 1976 Herbert Blades, James W. Cronin, Val Fitch
* 1978 [[Biography:William Klemperer|William Klemperer]]
* 1979 [[Biography:Elias Burstein|Elias Burstein]]
* 1980 Ralph Alpher, [[Biography:Robert Herman|Robert Herman]]
* 1981 Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, Webster E. Howard, Frank Stern, Philip J. Stiles<ref name=Classic>{{cite journal|last1=Stern|first1=F.|title=Citation Classic - PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACE INVERSION-LAYERS IN THE ELECTRIC QUANTUM LIMIT CC/PHYS CHEM EARTH|journal=Citation Classic Commentaries|date=April 4, 1983|volume=14|page=22|url=http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1983/A1983QG78600001.pdf|accessdate=5 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1982 Lawrence A. Harris<ref name=Secondary>{{cite journal|title=Secondary electron spectroscopy pinpoints surface impurities|journal=Chem. Eng. News|date=August 21, 1967|volume=45|issue=35|page=14|doi=10.1021/cen-v045n035.p014a}}</ref>
* 1984 Eugene Garfield
* 1985 [[Biography:Lynn Conway|Lynn A. Conway]], Carver A. Mead<ref name=Franklin>{{cite journal|title=Franklin Institute Honors Eight Physicists|journal=Physics Today|date=1985|volume=38|issue=7|page=84|doi=10.1063/1.2814644}}</ref>
* 1986 [[Biography:Alvin Van Valkenburg|Alvin Van Valkenburg]]<ref name=Benson>{{cite journal|last1=Benson|first1=William E.|last2=Sclar|first2=Charles B.|title=Memorial of Alvin Van Valkenburg, Jr. 1913-1991|journal=American Mineralogist|date=1995|volume=80|pages=191–193|url=http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/toc/Articles_Free/1995/Benson_p191-193_95.pdf|accessdate=5 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1987 Dennis H. Klatt
* 1990 [[Biography:Akito Arima|Akito Arima]]
* 1991 Peter John Twin
* 1992 [[Biography:Gerald E. Brown|Gerald E. Brown]]
* 1994 [[Biography:Stirling Colgate|Stirling A. Colgate]]
* 1997 [[Biography:Federico Capasso|Federico Capasso]]<ref name=Capasso>{{cite web|title=Federico Capasso|url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/federico-capasso|website=The Franklin Institute|accessdate=5 June 2015|date=2014-01-15}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Engineering:List of engineering awards|List of engineering awards]]
* [[Physics:List of physics awards|List of physics awards]]

==References==
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