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AT the annual meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society on Friday, Feb. 14, the president, Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin, delivered an address on the work of Dr. J, S. Plaskett, director of the Dominion Astro-physical Observatory, Victoria, B.C., to whom the Gold Medal of the Society has this year been awarded “for his valuable observations of stellar radial velocities and the important conclusions derived from them”. The award, said Dr. Crommelin, was made “not for any single outstanding result, but in recognition of the high merit of a long series of researches, extending over a quarter of a century, and marked throughout by a painstaking striving after the highest accuracy attainable, combined with an alertness in discerning problems of stellar motion and stellar physics to which the powerful observational means available might most suitably be applied”.
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Stellar Velocities and Stellar Physics. Nature 125, 333–334 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125333b0
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