In 1945, the Royal Society awarded Avery the Copley Medal, in part for his work on bacterial transformation.
In 1889 Salmon received the Copley Medal of the society, the highest honorary award in British science, but by 1889 had long ago quit mathematics and science.
In 1757 the Royal Society (of which he was vice-president) awarded him the Copley Medal for his work in the development of thermometers which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures they had reached.
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A couple of months later, on Thursday 16 November 1972, the official opening took place, performed by Professor Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1970 till 1988, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1976.