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His MAJESTY THE KING has approved of the awards this year by the president and council of the Royal Society in respect of the two Royal Medals to Prof. C. G. Darwin, Tait professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, for his researches in mathematical physics, especially in the quantum mechanics of the electron and in optics, and to Dr. A. Harker, emeritus reader in petrology in the University of Cambridge, in recognition of his distinguished work and influence as a petrologist. The following awards of medals have also been made by the president and council: Copley Medal to Prof. C. T. R. Wilson, emeritus professor of natural philosophy in the University of Cambridge, for his work on the use of clouds in advancing our knowledge of atoms and their properties; Davy Medal to Prof. A. Harden, formerly head of the Department of Biochemistry of the Lister Institute, for his distinguished work in biochemistry arid especially for his fundamental discoveries in the chemistry of alcoholic fermentation; Hughes Medal to Dr. C. J. Davisson, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, for research resulting in the discovery of the physical existence of electron waves through long-continued investigations on the reflection of electrons from the crystal planes of nickel and other metals.
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Medal Awards of the Royal Society. Nature 136, 824 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136824c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136824c0