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AT a meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers on May 2, the James Alfred Ewing Medal was presented to Prof. Arnold Hartley Gibson, professor of engineering in the University of Manchester. This is the second award of the medal, which is presented for specially meritorious contributions to the science of engineering. Awards are made by the council of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the recommendation of the presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Royal Society. Prof. Gibson was educated at Rishworth Grammar School and at the University of Manchester. In 1909 he was appointed professor of engineering of the University of St. Andrews, where he stayed until 1920, except that during the Great War he served in the Royal Field Artillery and was seconded in 1916 to the Royal Aircraft Factory, where he afterwards had charge of the investigation and research work on aero engines. He was president of Section G (Engineering) of the British Association in 1921, and was a member of the Board of Trade Committee on water-power of the British Isles; of the Air Ministry Engine Research Committee; and of the Severn Barrage Committee. He has written a number of papers on hydraulic engineering, including such subjects as experiments with tidal models, the resistance to rotation of disks in water at high speeds, formation of standing waves in an open stream, wave impact on engineering structures, etc., and, among other awards, has received a Crampton Prize and a Telford Premium for papers published by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Prof. A. H. Gibson. Nature 143, 753 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143753a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143753a0