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THROUGH the generosity of Signor Luigi Einaudi, President of the Italian Republic, the Lincei Academy at Rome is to award four national prizes of a million lire each at the end of every year of his term of office. The names of the first prize-winners have just been announced, as follows : General Prize (Mathematical and Natural Sciences) : Prof. O. M. Olivo, of the University of Bologna, for researches in bio-electric phenomena of the cardiac cell ; Prize for Physics : Prof. G. P. S. Occhialini, of the University of Brussels, for researches in nuclear physics and in particular for his work on the discovery of the heavy meson ; General Prize (Moral Sciences) : Prof. R. Mondolfo, of Bologna, for work on the history of philosophy ; Prize for Archæology : Prof. C. Anti, of the University of Padua, for researches on ancient Greek theatres.
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Italian National Awards : Einaudi Prizes. Nature 163, 903 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163903c0
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