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A SUPPLEMENTARY number of the Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1937) contains an account of the formal annual meeting held in Rome on June 6, 1937, in the presence of H.M. the King of Italy, to whom tribute was also paid for the first time as Emperor of Abyssinia. Among the chief awards announced by the President, V. Rossi, are those of the Bocconi Prize for cancer research to Prof. F. Pentimalli and the Cannizzaro Prize in chemistry to Prof. L. Ruzicka, Zurich. The following were elected as members during the preceding year: A. Ghigi, D. de Blasi, P. G. Goidanich, L. Castiglioni, P. Ducati, A. Maiuri, P. de Francisci, F. Flora, as national members, and A. Carrelli, G. Polvani, F. Ercole, as corresponding members. The centenary of the death of the Italian poet, Giacomo Leopardi, was commemorated by an address given by G. Gentile.
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National Academy of the Lincei. Nature 141, 640–641 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141640f0
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