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Ahead of the Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture on 26 November, Rupert Baker looks at the history of the WBM Medal and Lecture and its predecessors.

Virginia Mills reviews the career of Stephen Gray FRS, ‘father of electricity’ and first recipient of the Royal Society's Copley Medal.

The 2016 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award winner Professor Jo Dunkley offers an insight into how it all began.

The third part of the countdown of the top 10 Copley Medal winners who have changed the world.

A countdown of Copley Medal winners who have changed the world we live in.

91TV’s Copley Medal was first awarded in 1731 to Stephen Gray for his “electrical experiments”, more than a century before Alfred Nobel’s birth.