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The Edison Volta Prize is awarded biennially by the European Physical Society (EPS) to individuals or groups of up to three people in recognition of outstanding...

The Volta Prize (French: prix Volta) was originally established by Napoleon III during the Second French Empire in 1852 to honor Alessandro Volta, an...

electricity Edison Volta Prize, a biannual award by the European Physical Society (EPS) Volta Conference, an interwar cycle of cultural meetings Villa Volta, an...

The Volta Laboratory (also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, the Bell Carriage House and the Bell Laboratory) and the Volta Bureau were created...

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (/ˈvoʊltə, ˈvɒltə/, Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist...

Academy of Sciences 2010 Harkins Lecturer, Chicago, USA 2016 Edison Volta Prize 2017 Spinoza Prize 2018 Honorary Professorof the Moscow State Pedagogical University...

the University of Glasgow. On 12 November 2012, he was awarded an Edison Volta Prize. On 5 December 2013, he was awarded the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal. In...

CERN directors he was jointly awarded the EPS Edison Volta Prize in 2012 and the Prince of Asturias Prize of Spain in 2013. He became an Officer of the...

awards a number of prizes, including the Edison Volta Prize, the EPS Europhysics Prize, the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prizes, the High Energy...

technology awards Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-01-24 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics...

Fondation Alexander von Humboldt (2012) European Physical Society Edison-Volta prize (2014) Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur Officer of the Ordre des Palmes...

January 2017. Cheney 2011, p. 312. Anand Kumar Sethi (2016). The European Edisons: Volta, Tesla, and Tigerstedt, Springer. pp. 53–54 Carlson 2013, p. 353. Gilliams...

This, in part, led to the rejection of Volta's contact tension theory in favor of the electrochemical theory. Volta's illustrations of his Crown of Cups and...

Volta Prize was conceived by Napoleon III in 1852, and named in honor of Alessandro Volta, with Bell becoming the second recipient of the grand prize...

In 1880, when the French government awarded Alexander Graham Bell the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs for the invention of the telephone (equivalent to about...

declined. In 1880, Bell was awarded the French Volta Prize for his invention and with the money, founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington,[which?] where he...

French Academy, representing the French government, awarded Bell the Volta Prize with a purse of 50,000 francs (approximately $10,000) for the invention...

the Sun's surface to be 5700 K 1880 – Edison discovers thermionic emission or the Edison effect. 1882 – Edison switches on the world's first electrical...

brother-in-law, Joseph Priestley, investigated gases, leading Alessandro Volta to invent "bad air" (marsh gas) detectors and ignitors. Meanwhile, Edwin...