The Royal Society Medallists
1878; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 19; Issue: 472 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/019039a0
ISSN1476-4687
Tópico(s)Marine and coastal ecosystems
ResumoTHE following are the awards of medals by the Council of the Royal Society for the present year. The medals will be given away at the Society's anniversary meeting on the 30th inst.:—The Copley Medal to M. Jean Baptiste Boussingault for his long-continued and important researches and discoveries in agricultural chemistry; a Royal Medal to Mr. John Allan Broun, F.R.S., for his investigations during thirty-five years in magnetism and meteorology, and for his improvements in methods of observation; a Royal Medal to Dr. Albert Günther, F.R.S., for his numerous and valuable contributions to the zoology and anatomy of fishes and reptiles; the Rumford Medal to M. Alfred Cornu, for his various optical researches, and especially for his recent re-determination of the velocity of propagation of light; the Davy Medal to MM. Louis Paul Cailletet and Raoul Pictet, for their researches, conducted independently but contemporaneously, on the condensation of the so-called permanent gases.
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