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THE Charles Chree Medal and Prize are provided by the income from a fund given to the Physical Society in 1939 by Miss Jessie S. Chree, of Edinburgh, in memory of her brother, Dr. Charles Chree, a former president of the Society and superintendent of the Kew Magnetic Observatory. The Prize and Medal are awarded biennially in recognition of distinguished research in terrestrial magnetism, atmospheric electricity or cognate subjects, in which Dr. Chree was specially interested. The Council of the Society made the first award to Prof. Sydney Chapman in 1941 for his work in the first of these fields. The Medal and Prize for 1943 have been awarded to Prof, (now Brigadier) Basil F. J. Schonland, director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics, Johannesburg, in recognition of his valuable researches in the second field (see NATURE, February 20, p. 218). The presentation will be made at a meeting of the Society at the Royal Institution on July 16, when Brigadier Schonland will deliver the second Charles Chree Lecture, taking as his subject “Thunderstorms and their Electrical Effects”.
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Physical Society: Charles Chree Medallist. Nature 152, 46 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152046c0
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