Talk:Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Gold medals
Does the academy list the winners of its gold medals on-line? Doing so would make verification of claims simple. Many organizations list winners of their prizes on-line, and in doing so increase the profile of the competitions. For example, can the gold medal that MacTutor says Alexander Wilson (astronomer) won in 1771 be verified. Perhaps the Olaf Pederson book Lovers of Learning gives a list, but that book is not in my library.Rgdboer (talk) 23:50, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Their homepage does not seem to contain anything but the bare essentials. I have the Lovers of Learning book and I just checked, there is no list in that one either. However in its sources it lists a 5 volume Danish work on the history of the society, A. Lomholt (ed.), Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 1742-1942 - Samlinger til Selskabets historie (Collections in the history of the society), 1942-1973, which probably contains the information you are looking for. According to the information given in Lovers of Learning Volume III of the above work contains information about "special publications, scientific and scholarly projects, list of Prize Essays". --Saddhiyama (talk) 07:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't have volume III of that work but volume I pp. 69-73 has a list of gold medal recipients and Alexander Wilson is listed under 1772. (18 February 1772 to be precise, according to p. 67.) So it seems MacTutor is only almost right. Peter Alberti (talk) 15:37, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you Peter Alberti for fishing out a primary source to confirm Alexander Wilson's prize. The reach back to 1772 was a stretch.Rgdboer (talk) 22:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Real credit goes to Saddhiyama for finding the right book, and to Peter Alberti for correctly putting it as reference in Alexander Wilson's article. The question of what merit brought forth this award has been put at Talk:Alexander Wilson (astronomer). Thank you all around.Rgdboer (talk) 22:20, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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