Volta price
The Volta Prize (French: Prix Volta ) is a February 1852 by Napoleon III. Science prize donated in honor of Alessandro Volta in the field of electricity .
It was endowed with 50,000 francs each and was awarded by the Académie des sciences .
Award winners
- 1864: Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff (first award)
- 1880: Alexander Graham Bell
- 1888: Zenobe Gramme
See also
literature
- John L. Davis: Artisans and savants: The role of the Academy of Sciences in the process of electrical innovation in France, 1850-1880. In: Annals of Science . Volume 55, number 3, 1998, pp. 291-314 ( doi: 10.1080 / 00033799800200211 ).
- Stéphanie Deprouw: Un héritage des Bonaparte: Le Prix du galvanisme, 1802–1815, et le Prix Volta, 1852–1888. L'Etat et l'encouragement à la recherche sur l'électricité. Dissertation École nationale des chartes, Paris 2008.
- Ernest Maindron: Les fondations de prix à l'Académie des sciences. Les lauréats de l'Académie 1714-1880. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1881, pp. 131-133 ( online ).