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SIR EDWARD APPLETON, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, has been appointed principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh. It has also been announced that Sir Edward has been awarded the Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, "for outstanding contributions to radio technics and particularly for remarkable achievement in research on the ionosphere". The award was instituted in commemoration of the work of Dr. V. Poulsen, the inventor of the Poulsen arc and a pioneer of radio-telephony, who received the first medal on the occasion of his seventieth birthday on November 23, 1939.
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Announcements. Nature 162, 884 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162884d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162884d0