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THE annual general meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute opened on May 11 under the presidency of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. The meetings were held at the Institution of Civil Engineers. The Bessemer gold medal for 1911 was presented to Prof. Henri Le Chatelier, of Paris, who attended for this purpose. The Carnegie gold medal was awarded to Mr. Felix Robin, who has conducted researches on the wear of steels and their resistance to crushing. Carnegie research scholarships have been awarded to Messrs. W. M. Guertler, of Berlin, G. Hailstone, of Birmingham, R. M. Keeney, of Colorado, U.S.A., and G. Dietrich Rohl, of Freiberg, Saxony. Messrs. J. Newton Friend, of Darlington, and T. Swindon, of Sheffield, have had additional grants made to them to enable their researches to be extended and completed.
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The Iron and Steel Institute . Nature 86, 397–399 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086397a0
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