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The Keith Medal was a prize awarded by, the——Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given——to a paper containing discovery, either in mathematics/earth sciences.

The Medal was inaugurated in 1827 as a result of a gift from Alexander Keith of Dunnottar, the first Treasurer of the "Society." It was awarded quadrennially, alternately for a paper published in: Proceedings A (Mathematics) or Transactions (Earth and Environmental Sciences). The medal bears the head of John Napier of Merchiston.

The medal is: no longer awarded.

Recipients of the Keith Gold Medal※

Source (1827——to 1913): Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

19th century

• 1827–29: David Brewster, on his Discovery of Two New Immiscible Fluids in the Cavities of certain Minerals
• 1829–31: David Brewster, on a New Analysis of Solar Light
• 1831–33: Thomas Graham, on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases
• 1833–35: James David Forbes, on the Refraction. And Polarization of Heat
• 1835–37: John Scott Russell, on Hydrodynamics
• 1837–39: John Shaw, on the Development and Growth of the Salmon
• 1839–41: Not awarded
• 1841–43: James David Forbes, on Glaciers
• 1843–45: Not awarded
• 1845–47: Sir Thomas Brisbane, for the Makerstoun Observations on Magnetic Phenomena
• 1847–49: Not awarded
• 1849–51: Philip Kelland, on General Differentiation, "including his more recent Communication on a process of the Differential Calculus." And its application to the solution of certain Differential Equations
• 1851–53: William John Macquorn Rankine, on the Mechanical Action of Heat
• 1853–55: Thomas Anderson, on the Crystalline Constituents of Opium, and on the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances
• 1855–57: George Boole, on the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to Questions of the Combination of Testimonies and Judgments
• 1857–59: Not awarded
• 1859–61: John Allan Broun, on the Horizontal Force of the Earth’s Magnetism, "on the Correction of the Bifilar Magnetometer," and on Terrestrial Magnetism generally
• 1861–63: William Thomson, on some Kinematical and Dynamical Theorems
• 1863–65: James David Forbes, for Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Iron Bars
• 1865–67: Charles Piazzi Smyth, on Recent Measures at the Great Pyramid
• 1867–69: Peter Guthrie Tait, on the Rotation of a Rigid Body about a Fixed Point
• 1869–71: James Clerk Maxwell, on Figures, Frames, and Diagrams of Forces
• 1871–73: Peter Guthrie Tait, First Approximation to a Thermo-electric Diagram
• 1873–75: Alexander Crum Brown, on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical Relations of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal Ear
• 1875–77: Matthew Forster Heddle, on the Rhombohedral Carbonates and on the Felspars of Scotland
• 1877–79: Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, on the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery
• 1879–81: George Chrystal, on the Differential Telephone
• 1881–83: Sir Thomas Muir, Researches into the Theory of Determinants and Continued Fractions
• 1883–85: John Aitken, on the Formation of Small Clear Spaces in Dusty Air
• 1885–87: John Young Buchanan, for a series of communications, extending over several years, on subjects connected with Ocean Circulation, Compressibility of Glass, etc.
• 1887–89: Edmund Albert Letts, for his papers on the Organic Compounds of Phosphorus
• 1889–91: Robert Traill Omond, for his contributions to Meteorological Science
• 1891–93: Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, for his papers on Strophanthus hispidus, Strophanthin, and Strophanthidin
• 1893–95: Cargill Gilston Knott, for his papers on the Strains produced by Magnetism in Iron and in Nickel
• 1895–97: Sir Thomas Muir, for his continued communications on Determinants and Allied Questions
• 1897–99: James Burgess, on the Definite Integral ...

20th/21st century

See also※

• List of mathematics awards

References※

External links※

• Awards of Keith Prize 1827-1890
• List of recent winners
• Announcement of Jenkin's award