• The James Smithson Medal, established in 1965, is awarded to those who have made "exceptional contributions to art, science, history, education and technology...
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    recordings, 70 books, and 400 articles to his credit. He received the James Smithson Medal from the Smithsonian Institution, an American Jazz Masters Award...
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    The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. It was originally organized as the United States National Museum, but...
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    with Alumni Medal". The University of Chicago Chronicle. June 11, 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2015. "Robert McCormick Adams— 2002 Gold Medal Award for Distinguished...
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    Howard Florey (category Medal for Merit recipients)
    1946 and was awarded the American Medal for Merit in 1948 and the James Smithson Medal in 1965. Florey was elected to the United States National Academy...
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    visitors saw the 850-work inaugural show in the first six months. In 1984, James T. Demetrion, who had served as director of the Des Moines Art Center in...
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    world's largest and most diverse collections of coins, paper currency, medals, commodity currencies, financial instruments, exonumia, and related items...
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    Smithsonian's Natural History Museum." Associated Press. March 30, 2007. Grimaldi, James V. and Trescott, Jacqueline. "Scientists Fault Climate Exhibit Changes."...
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    v t e James Smithson Medal recipients 1965: Howard Florey 1968: Edgar Preston Richardson 1976: Elizabeth II 1979: Pope John Paul II 1986: Warren E. Burger...
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  • the Fine Arts from 1968 to 1970. In 1968, Richardson received the James Smithson Medal, the Smithsonian Institution's self-described "most prestigious and...
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    Contributions and Studies Series Awards James Smithson Medal Charles Lang Freer Medal Hodgkins Medal Langley Gold Medal National Design Awards Smithsonian...
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    Warren E. Burger (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    the Civil War, resulting in the loss of his right arm and was awarded the Medal of Honor at the age of 14. At age 16, Joseph Burger became one of the youngest...
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    1975, the National Institute of Social Sciences awarded her their Gold Medal in honor of her service to humanity. An act of the United States Congress...
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    awards and honors, including the title of President Emeritus, two Norman Medals, eight honorary degrees, and membership in the National Science Board. Clough...
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    The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science". It alternates...
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  • 1930s expedition. The donation led to the couple being awarded the James Smithson Medal, the Smithsonian's highest honor. Beatty suffered a stroke on his...
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  • (died 2006) September 18 – Peter Smithson, English New Brutalist architect, husband and partner of Alison Smithson (died 2003) September 25 – Leonardo...
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  • 2018-07-10 Griffith, Paul (2016-03-16), The SR-71 Blackbird, Buz Carpenter, James David, Layne Karafantis, retrieved 2018-07-10 Griffith, Paul (2016-03-30)...
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    Pope John Paul II (category Congressional Gold Medal recipients)
    proposed by a head of Italy's Jewish community, Emmanuele Pacifici was the medal of the Righteous Among the Nations. In Wojtyła's last book, Memory and Identity...
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    desert, Turrell does not consider himself an earthworks artist like Robert Smithson or Michael Heizer. "You could say I'm a mound builder," he said. "I make...
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    Contemporary Blues Album for Live from the Fox Oakland 2022 James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for “her embodiment of the American Experience through music;...
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  • late 1970s. In nine seasons, Smithson won 155 games, placing him second in school history behind Ralph Miller. Smithson was the first coach to guide WSU...
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  • S2CID 91623116. Clack, Jennifer Alice; Challands, Thomas James; Smithson, Timothy Richard; Smithson, Keturah Zoe (2 November 2018). "Newly recognized Famennian...
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  • Frances Sheridan – novelist Richard Brinsley Sheridan – playwright Annie P. Smithson – novelist Charles Villiers Stanford – composer Robert Prescott Stewart...
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  • is invented by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Copley Medal: John Canton Early – James Smithson, British mineralogist...
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    tenure with the Wizards after learning from Wizards optometrist Keith Smithson that he could lose sight in his left eye if he was hit. In his short tenure...
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    1829, British scientist James Smithson died, and he left his fortune for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge". In Smithson's will, he stated that should...
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    Denys Lasdun (category Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal)
    Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson, Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...
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    DNA (Sir John Randall), HPV vaccine (Ian Frazer), Iridium and Osmium (Smithson Tennant), Nitrogen (Daniel Rutherford), Strontium (Thomas Charles Hope)...
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    retailer H. Samuel Harriet Anne Scott (1819–1894), English novelist Harriet Smithson (1800–1854), Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz Harriet Mabel Spalding...
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