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THE Royal Meteorological Society has awarded the Symons Gold medal for 1934 to Sir Gilbert T. Walker. The medal is awarded biennially for distinguished work in connexion with meteorological science and will be presented at the annual general meeting of the Society on January 17, 1934. Sir Gilbert was senior wrangler (1889), fellow and lecturer in mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Adams prizeman in 1900. He is author of many works on dynamical aspects of physics, including problems relating to the electromagnetic field and similar subjects, and meteorology. He has published numerous pioneer papers through many years on correlation as a means of dealing with seasonal variations of weather, and for forecasting the Indian rains. These papers have culminated with contributions on “World Weather” in Memoirs of the Royal Meteorological Society. Extracts from his presidential address before Section A (Mathematical and Physical Sciences) of the British Association meeting at Leicester on September 8, appears in this issue of NATURE (p. 805).
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Sir Gilbert Walker, C.S.I., F.R.S. Nature 132, 812 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132812a0
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