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THE committee of judges for the award of the Eugenio Rignano prize for the best essay on “The Evolution of the Notion of Time” has recently announced its decision in a “Rapport de la Commission du Jury” dated October 1933. The prize, having a value of 10,000 lire, was established in 1930 as a memorial to E. Rignano, director of Scientia, who died in Milan on February 9 of that year. Competing essays were submitted by the end of 1932. No limitations were imposed as to mode of treatment, so that equal scope was afforded to scientific and philosophical aspects of time. A total of 35 essays were submitted, from the following countries: Italy (7), France (6), Germany (6), India (4), Great Britain (2), United States (2), Hungary (2), and one each from Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Luxembourg, South America and Australia. As a preliminary selection of essays of outstanding merit, the committee chose the papers of the following authors: E. Klein, W. Gent, G. Giorgi, H. Mehlberg, K. Sapper, J. Sivadjan, L. von Strauss, G. Windred and S. Zawirski. Of these, Prof. G. Giorgi of the University of Palermo and Prof. S. Zawirski of the University of Pozna`n were finally selected as ex œquo recipients of the prize.
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Award of the Eugenio Rignano Prize. Nature 133, 411 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133411a0
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