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EARLY in 1945 Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade, then president and now foreign secretary of the Physical Society, on behalf of the Council issued to fellows and friends of the Society an appeal for contributions for the foundation of a prize as a mark of their admiration for, and sympathy with, their French colleagues who had worked strenuously under great difficulties during the German occupation, and as a memorial to Dr. Fernand Holweck, the distinguished director of research at the Institut du Radium in Paris, who had died at the hands of the Gestapo, and to other French physicists who met their deaths or suffered privation. The sum collected has enabled the Physical Society to establish a Holweck Prize, to be awarded annually for ten years alternately to a French and British physicist for distinguished work in experimental physics, the presentation to the French winners to be made in London and those to the British winners in Paris. The scheme evoked lively interest and profound gratitude in French circles, and the Societe Francaise de Physique, with which intimate co-operation in the selection for the Prize has been sought, has founded a Holweck Medal which is to be presented to each recipient of the Holweck Prize.
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Physical Society and the Société Francaise de Physique: Holweck Prize and Medal. Nature 157, 618 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157618c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157618c0