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DR. L. F. BATES, Lancashire-Spencer professor of physics in the University of Nottingham, has been awarded the Holweck Prize and Medal by the Société Francaise de Physique. The Holweck Prize was founded by the Physical Society as a memorial to Fernand Holweck, director of the Curie Laboratory of of the Radium Institute in Paris, and to other French phyreicists who were killed by the Germans during the occupation. The Société Frangaise de Physique founded the Holweck Medal in bronze for presentation to the prizewinner. The award is made annually, alternately to a French and to a British physicist, for distinguished work in experimental physics. Prof. Bates is a leading authority on experimental magnetism. His book "Modern Magnetism", which appeared in 1939, has achieved an international reputation, and a second revised and enlarged edition appeared last year. His original work in an experimental field known for its difficulty is distinguished by a technique which he has built up since 1924 entirely by independent effort. In particular, his work on the heat liberated in step-by-step magnetism in the hysteresis cycle has advanced knowledge in a field where progress has long been retarded by the experimental difficulties. His work on the changes of specific heat at the ferromagnetic Curie point and his investigations of other properties of ferromagnetic substances are outstanding. His investigations in magnetism constitute a solid body of successful achievement which commands attention and admiration both at home and abroad. Magnetism is a subject in which there is now much interest in France, as instanced by the work of Neel and his school, and Prof. Bates will be warmly welcomed when he delivers his lecture in Paris in the early summer.
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Holweck Prize and Medal : Prof. L. F. Bates. Nature 163, 475 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163475b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163475b0