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PROF. ARTHUR N. TALBOT, emeritus professor of engineering in the University of Illinois, has been awarded the John Fritz Gold Medal, the highest of American engineering honours. Prof. Talbot, who is seventy-nine years of age, was cited as “moulder of men, eminent consultant on engineering projects, leader of research, and outstanding educator in civil engineering”. The award is made annually by a board composed of sixteen past-presidents of the four national societies of civil, mining and metallurgical, mechanical and electrical engineers. Prof. Talbot was born in Cortland, 111., on October 21, 1857. He has been engaged in engineering work since 1881, his activities embracing railroads, roads, bridges, buildings and municipal public works. Prof. Talbot aided in the development of the testing laboratories and the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois. He has been active in the formation and development of the Illinois Engineering Experiment Station, in connexion with which he has made numerous investigations in the properties of steel, brick, concrete and reinforced concrete, and in water purification, sewage treatment and hydraulics. Among previous recipients of the John Fritz Gold Medal have been Lord Kelvin, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Elihu Thomson and Sir Robert Hadfield.
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Prof. A. N. Talbot. Nature 138, 1002 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381002a0
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