Volta Prize

[1][2] This international prize awarded 50,000 French francs[1][2][3] to extraordinary scientific discoveries related to electricity.

One of its most notable awards was made in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell received the fourth edition of the Volta Prize for the invention of the telephone.

[5] Only four recipients received a secondary reward of 30,000 francs from the Galvanism Prize: Additionally, the founder of the Volta prize and next Emperor of the French, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III), nephew of Bonaparte, was himself very invested in the development of electric science.

He presented his own voltaic pile at the French Academy of Sciences in 1843, made out of a single metal and two acid solutions.

[7] The rules of the Volta Prize were decreed by Napoleon III in Paris, on 23 February 1852.