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SCHOLARSHIPS have been granted by the National Research Council of Canada to 165 graduates to enable them to pursue postgraduate studies during the apaaemic year 1949–50. There are nineteen fellowships at 900 dollars, sixty-four studentships at 7£0 dollars and seventy-eight bursaries at 450 dollars tenable at 'Canadian universities, and four special scholarships at 750 dollars awarded for study outside Canada. The nominal value of all scholarships for the year is 103·200 dollars as compared with the total for last year of 148 scholarships worth 97·050 dollars. Physics is represented by 65, and chemistry, in its several branches, by 59. The remainder are distributed in the other sciences as follows : bacteriology, 1 ; biology, 4 ; communications engineering, 1 ; cytogenetics, 1 ; electrical engineering, 2 ; geology, 3 ; histology, 2 ; mathematics, 3 ; medical research, 2 ; microwave studies, 1 ; metallurgy, 2 ; mineralogy, 2 ; nutrition, 1 ; physical metallurgy, 2 ; physiology, 1 ; radiation studies, 2; spectroscopy, 3 ; zoology, 8.
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Canadian Scholarship Awards. Nature 163, 905 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163905b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163905b0