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The Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Lectureship is a quadrennial award made by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to recognise original work done by scientists resident in or connected with Scotland.
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The award was founded in 1887 by Dr Robert Halliday Gunning, a Scottish surgeon, entrepreneur and philanthropist who spent much of his life in Brazil.
Awards by a similar name have also been awarded by the University of Edinburgh.
Source: Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1887: Sir William Thomson, for a series of papers on Hydrokinetics
- 1887–1890: Peter Guthrie Tait, for work done on the Challenger Expedition
- 1890–1893: Alexander Buchan, for his contributions on meteorology
- 1893–1896: John Aitken, for his work on the formation and condensation of aqueous vapour
- 1896–1899: Rev. Thomas David Anderson, for his discoveries of new and variable stars
- 1900–1904: Sir James Dewar, for his researches on the liquefaction of gases
- 1904–1908: George Chrystal, for a series of papers on Seiches
- 1908–1912: John Norman Collie, for his contributions to organic and inorganic chemistry
- 1912–1916: Thomas Muir, for his memoirs on the theory and history of determinants
- 1916–1920: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, for his studies in connection with condensation nuclei, ionisation of gases and atmospheric electricity
- 1920–1924: Sir Joseph John Thomson, for his discoveries in physics
- 1924–1928: E.T. Whittaker, for his contributions to mathematics
- 1928–1932: Sir James Walker, for contributions to physical and general chemistry
- 1932–1936: Charles Galton Darwin, for his contributions to mathematical physics
- 1936–1940: James Colquhoun Irvine, for contributions to organic chemistry
- 1940–1944: Herbert Westren Turnbull, for his contributions to mathematical science
- 1944–1948: Max Born, for contributions to theoretical physics
- 1948–1952: Alexander Craig Aitken, for his contributions to pure mathematics
- 1952–1956: Harry Melville, for contributions to reaction kinetics and physics and chemistry of high polymers
- 1956–1960: Sir Edward Victor Appleton, contributions to ionospheric and radio physics
- 1960–1964: Sir Edmund Hirst, for contributions to the chemistry of carbohydrates
- 1964–1968: Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge, for contributions to geometry
- 1968–1972: Philip Ivor Dee, for contributions to nuclear physics
- 1972–1976: Arthur Erdelyi, for contributions to mathematics especially the theory of special functions
- 1976–1980: Charles Kemball, for contributions to the study of analysis
- 1984: Nicholas Kemmer, for his contributions to the theory of elementary particles
- 1988: Sir Michael Atiyah, for his contribution to mathematics
- 1992: Peter Ludwig Pauson, for his contributions to the chemistry of diene- and triene-metal carbonyl complexes
- 1996: Kathryn A Whaler, for her contribution to the development of mathematical models on the long wave length component of the geomagnetic field
- 2000: Angus Macintyre, for his contributions to logic, model theory, algebra, analysis and computer science
- 2004: Peter George Bruce,[1] for contributions to solid state chemistry
- 2008: James Hough, for his work on gravitational waves
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