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AT the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific held in San Francisco on January 30, it was announced that the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for 1937 has been awarded to Prof. Ejnar Hartzsprung, director of the University Observatory, Leyden, Holland. In announcing the award, the president of the Society for 1936, Prof. A. O. Leuschner, gave an account of Dr. Hertz -sprung's outstanding contributions to astronomy. Announcement has been made by the Director, Dr. W. H. Wright, of provision for an annual appointment to be known as the Alexander F. Morrison Memorial research associateship in the Lick Observatory. Appointments to the research associateship will be made by the regents of the University of California. “The appointee shall be an astronomer, or an authority on some other subject intimately related to astronomy, of wide and admirable repute by virtue of contributions of great value which he has made to the science of astronomy. The holder of the Research Associateship will reside at Mount Hamilton as a guest member of the staff for a certain portion of a year as would be agreed upon.” Prof. Herbzsprung has accepted an invitation to be the first visitor under the new foundation.
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Nature 139, 441 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139441e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139441e0