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THE French Sociéte d'encouragement have awarded to Sir Charles Wheatstone, F.R. S., the Ampère medal for hi-remarkable works in theoretic and applied physics. The grand prize of 12,000 francs for the discovery most useful to French industry has teen awarded to M. Pasteur, for the improvements he has introduced into the manufacture of silk, of wines, of vinegar, and of beer. A piize of 3,000 francs has been awarded to M. Gramme for the construction of an apparatus giving an electric current constant in direction and in intensity, whose electromotive force and conductibility are equal to those of an azotic acid pile of 60 or 80 elements of ordinary size, and superior both in economy and solubility to the apparatus which are at present in use.
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Notes . Nature 7, 451–453 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007451a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/007451a0
