According to the Royal Society, after weeks of thorough discussions among the members of the academic committee and compiling the votes from each department member, George Simon Ohm, the electromagnetism professor at the University of London, has been awarded the highest scientific honor in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—the Copley Medal, by an overwhelming majority.
At the award ceremony held last weekend, Michael Faraday, Director of the Royal Society Laboratory and the 1832 Copley Medal recipient, personally awarded this honor to Professor Ohm. Meanwhile, Michael Faraday, Charles Wheatstone, and Charles Darwin jointly recommended George Simon Ohm to be elected as a new foreign fellow of the Royal Society.
