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SIR CHARLES VEBNON BOYS has been awarded the Elliot Cresson Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, in recognition of his scientific achievements, “which have furnished scientists with new and remarkably precise methods for making measurements in gravitation, in sound, in heat, in radiation, in current and static electricity, so refined as to render possible the weighing of the earth, the determination of the radiant energy coming to us from the stars, the photography of the speeding bullet and theimmobilization, even, of the lightning flash itself”. The medal will be presented on May 17.
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Announcements. Nature 143, 818 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143818d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143818d0