biography
| name: |
Copley, Sir Godfrey
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pronunciation:
[koplee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?–1709)
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| biography:
| Philanthropist, born in Yorkshire, N England, UK. He left a fund in trust to the Royal Society which has been applied since 1736 to the provision of the annual Copley Medal for philosophical research. |
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