Copley Synonyms

käplē
American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. John Copley
  2. john singleton copley

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Copley Sentence Examples

  • The Royal Society awarded him the Copley medal in 5892, and selected him as Croonian lecturer in the following year, his subject being the position of pathology among the biological sciences; and in 1898 he delivered the second Huxley memorial lecture at Charing Cross Hospital.

  • The Copley medal was conferred upon him in 1823, and the Lalande prize in 1817 by the Paris Academy, of which he was a corresponding member.

  • In 1831 the Copley medal of the Royal Society was awarded to him for these researches.

  • He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1836, its president in 1871, and received both the Copley and Royal medals.

  • In 1901 the Copley medal of the Royal Society of London was awarded him as being "the first to apply the second law of thermodynamics to the exhaustive discussion of the relation between chemical, electrical and thermal energy and capacity for external work."

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