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THE following awards of medals have been made by the president and council of the Royal Society: Copley Medal to Prof. Niels Bohr, For. Mem. R.S., in recognition of his distinguished work in theoretical physics and particularly in the development of the quantum theory of atomic structure ; Rumford Medal to Prof. R. W. Wood, For. Mem. R.S., in recognition of his distinguished work and discoveries in many branches of physical optics ; Davy Medal to Prof. G. Barger, F.R.S., in recognition of his distinguished researches on alkaloids and other natural products ; Darwin Medal to Prof. F. O. Bower, F.R.S., in recognition of his work of acknowledged distinction in the field in which Darwin himself laboured ; Hughes Medal, awarded jointly to Dr. J. D. Cockcroft, F.R.S., and Dr. E. T. S. Walton, in recognition of their discovery that nuclei could be disintegrated by artificially produced bombarding particles.
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Royal Society Awards. Nature 142, 865 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142865b0
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