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AT the annual meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society on January 15, the Symons Gold Medal was presented to Prof. Wilhelm Schmidt, director of the Zentralanstalt fur Meteorologie und Geodynamik at Vienna. In presenting the Medal, the president, Lieut.-Col. E. Gold, said that Prof. Schmidt has written important papers in many branches of meteorology. In 1925 he published his book “Der Massenaustausch in freier Luft und verwandte Erscheinungen” which dealt comprehensively with the mechanics of the exchange of air, especially the part played by turbulence, and did much to open up a new chapter in meteorology. In recent years he has devoted great attention to the new subject of ‘micro-climatology5, which deals with the finer details of climatology, and is especially important for agriculture. In 1934 he lectured on this subject before the Royal Meteorological Society, choosing as his title “Observations on Local Climatology in Austrian Mountains”. He has also carried out detailed investigations on the distribution of temperature in Alpine lakes. In 1935 Prof. Schmidt succeeded the late Prof. A. Wallen as president of the International Commission for Agricultural Meteorology, a subject which he has done much to foster. Prof. Schmidt was unable to be present to receive the Medal in person, and Herr von Blass, of the Austrian Embassy, attended on his behalf.
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Prof. Wilhelm Schmidt. Nature 137, 142 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137142a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137142a0