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THE Kelvin Gold Medal for 1938 was presented to Sir Joseph Thomson, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in recognition of the eminent services he has rendered to engineering science, by Lord Rayleigh, in the Great Hall of the Institution of Civil Engineers on May 3. The executive committee of the memorial fund to Lord Kelvin, representative of nineteen British and American Institutions, decided that the balance of the Fund, after defraying the cost of a window unveiled in Westminster Abbey to the memory of Lord Kelvin in July 1913, should be applied to the establishment of a Kelvin Gold Medal to be awarded triennially as a mark of distinction in engineering work or investigation of the kinds with which Lord Kelvin was especially identified. The award of the first Kelvin Medal was delayed by-reason of the War, and it was not until 1920 that the first award was made to the late Dr. W. C. Unwin (Great Britain). The following awards have since been made: Dr. Elihu Thompson (United States) ; Sir Charles Parsons (Great Britain) ; M. Andre Blondel (France) ; Marchese Marconi (Italy) ; Sir Ambrose Fleming (Great Britain).
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Presentation of Kelvin Gold Medal. Nature 141, 825 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141825d0
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