John Price Wetherill Medal John Price Wetherill MedalFranklin Institute . It was established with a bequest given by the family of John Price Wetherill 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". The John Price Wetherill Medal was last awarded in 1997. As of 1998 all of the endowed medals previously awarded by the Franklin Institute were reorganized as the Benjamin Franklin Medals .Recipients 1926 Frank Twyman , Wagner Electric Corporation 1927 Carl Ethan Akeley , North East Appliances Inc. 1928 Albert S. Howell, Frank E. Ross 1929 Gustave Fast , William H. Mason, Johannes Ruths 1930 Charles S. Chrisman, William N. Jennings 1931 Thomas Tarvin Gray , Arthur J. Mason, Edwin G. Steele, Walter L. Steele, Henry M . Sutton, Edward C. Wente 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, Francis C. McMath, Robert R. McMath 1934 E. Newton Harvey, Alfred L. Loomis, Johannes B. Ostermeier 1935 F. Hope-Jones, Francis Ferdinand Lucas , Robert E. Naumburg, William H. Shortt, James Edmond Shrader , Louis Bryant Tuckermann , Henry Ellis Warren 1936 Albert L. Marsh 1939 William Albert Hyde 1940 Laurens Hammond , Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt , Howard L. Krum 1941 Harold Stephen Black 1943 Robert Howland Leach 1944 Richard C. DuPont, Willem Fredrik Westendorp 1946 Lewis A. Rodert 1947 Kenneth S. M. Davidson 1948 Wendell Frederick Hess 1949 Edgar Collins Bain , Thomas L. Fawick, Harlan D. Fowler 1950 Donald William Kerst , Sigurd Varian , Russell Varian 1951 Samuel C. Collins, Reid Berry Gray , Gaylord W. Penney 1952 Martin E. Nordberg, Harrison P. Hood, Albert J. Williams Junior, 1953 Robert H. Dalton, Stanley Donald Stookey 1954 William D. Buckingham, 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 , J. Sayers, John Randall 1959 Robert B. Aitchison, Archer J. P. Martin, Anthony Trafford James , Clarence Zener , R. L. M. Synge 1960 Raimond Castaing , Walter Juda , Victor Vacquier 1961 Albert E. Hitchcock, Percy W. Zimmerman 1962 Ernest Ambler , Raymond Webster Hayward , Dale Dubois Hoppes , Ralph P. Hudson, Stanley Donald Stookey, Chien-Shiung Wu 1963 Daryl M. Chapin, Calvin Souther Fuller , Gerald L. Pearson 1964 Howard Aiken , John Eugene Gunzler , John Kenneth Hulm , Bernd Matthias 1965 Edward Ching-Te Chao , Wendell F. Moore, John Hamilton Reynolds , Frederick D. Rossini, Eugene Shoemaker , Fred Noel Spiess 1966 Howard G. Rogers, Britton Chance 1967 Ernest Omar Wollan 1968 Nathan Cohn 1969 George R. Cowan, John J. Douglass, Arnold H. Holtzman 1970 Paul D. Bartlett 1971 Felix Wankel 1972 Otto Herbert Schmitt 1973 A. R. Howell 1974 Aage Bohr , Ben Mottelson 1975 Donald Newton Langenberg , William Henry Parker , Barry Norman Taylor 1976 Herbert Blades, James W. Cronin, Val Fitch 1978 William Klemperer 1979 Elias Burstein 1980 Ralph Alpher , Robert Herman 1981 Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, Webster E. Howard, Frank Stern , Philip J. Stiles 1982 Lawrence A. Harris 1984 Eugene Garfield 1985 Lynn A. Conway, Carver A. Mead 1986 Alvin Van Valkenburg 1987 Dennis H. Klatt 1990 Akito Arima 1991 Peter John Twin 1992 Gerald E. Brown 1994 Stirling A. Colgate 1997 Federico Capasso
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