The following are the Regulations for the WILLIAM HOPKINS PRIZE founded in memory of WILLIAM HOPKINS (1793-1866).
1. That the Prize be called "THE WILLIAM HOPKINS PRIZE"
2. That this Prize be adjudged once in three years.
3. That it be adjudged for the best original memoir, invention or discovery, in connextion with Mathematico-physical or Mathematico-experimental science that may have been published during the three years immediately preceding, but that the adjudicators be at liberty, if it seem to them advisable in any particular case, to award the Prize for a discovery in Mathematics alone, or in Experimental Physicsalone, or for one which has not been published within theforementioned period.
4. That it be confined to those who are or have been Members of the University of Cambridge.
5. That the fund be vested in the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and the Prize adjudged by three Fellows of the Society, nominated by the Council of the Society for each occasion.
6. That, in the event of any difficulty arising in carrying out the above provisions in any particular instance, either from lack of a prize-subject of sufficient merit, or from anyother cause, the Council be at liberty to carry over the amount of the Prize for that term towards augmenting the fund for future prizes, or to award it to someone not a member of the University.
Award of the William Hopkins Prize
1867 - SIR G. G. STOKES
1870 - J. CLERK MAXWELL
1873 - LORD RAYLEIGH
1876 - LORD KELVIN
1879 - SIR G. H. DARWIN
1882 - SIR R. T. GLAZEBROOK
1885 - W. M. HICKS
1888 - SIR H. LAMB
1891 - SIR J. J. THOMSON
1894 - W. D. NIVEN
1897 - SIR J. LARMOR
1900 - S. S. HOUGH
1903 - J. H. POYNTING
1906 - W. BURNSIDE
1909 - G. H. BRYAN
1912 - C. T. R. WILSON
1915 - R. A. SAMPSON
1918 - SIR F W. DYSON
1921 - SIR A. S. EDDINGTON
1924 - SIR J. H. JEANS
1927 - SIR G. I. TAYLOR
1930 - P. A. M. DIRAC
1933 - P. M. S. BLACKETT
1936 - E. A. MILNE
1939 - SIR J. D. COCKCROFT
1942 - H. J. BHABHA
1945 - C. F. POWELL
1948 - SIR J. LENNARD-JONES
1951 - R. A. LYTTLETON
1954 - M. RYLE
1957 - A. SALAM
1960 - M. J. LIGHTHILL
1963 - J. M. ZIMAN
1966 - A. KELLY
1969 - T. BROOKE BENJAMIN
1972 - A. HEWISH
1975 - S. W. HAWKING
1979 - D.P. McKenzie
1980 - Lord M. J. Rees
1985 - D.O. Gough
1988 - M.B. Green
1991 - S.K. Donaldson
1993 - R.D.E. Saunders
1996 - Sir J.E. Baldwin
1999 - P.K. Townsend
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