1837 Recipient of the Copley Medal, 1853 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1861 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Dove Bay in Greenland is named after him. The crater Dove on the Moon is named after him. In Optics, the Dove prism is named for him. References External links An 1857 photographic portrait of H. W. Dove as a middle-aged man A photographic portrait of H. W. Dove as an older man (photograph credit: Loescher & Petsch) 1803 births 1879 deaths 19th-century German physicists German meteorologists German climatologists Recipients of the Copley Medal Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin University of Breslau alumni Academic staff of the University of Königsberg People from Legnica People from the Province of Silesia Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)