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THE Council of the Royal Dublin Society, on the unanimous recommendation of the Science Committee, decided at its meeting on February 13 to award the Boyle Medal to Dr. H. H. Poole. Dr. Poole, in his capacity as registrar of the Society, has charge of the Society's scientific publications and of its stock of radium, from which originates almost the whole supply of emanation for the Dublin hospitals. The method of preparation is that originally worked out by Joly and since improved by Dr. Poole, a number of whose papers relate to radium therapy. Dr. Poole's first work, beginning in 1910, was done in the geological field under Joly's inspiration, and a series of papers was published on the thermal conductivity and specific heat of minerals in their relation to the general question of continental displacement. At a later date, Dr. Poole became interested in the measurement of daylight, characteristically because his colleagues in the biological field required help. He has now made the subject of photo-electric cells and light measurement peculiarly his own, and the practical application to the measurement of diurnal and season variation in daylight and the penetration of light waves into woods and especially into the sea have been valuable. The stream of work on this subject is still in full progress, and a total of some twenty-eight papers have appeared in the last ten years, many in collaboration with Dr. W. R. G. Atkins, of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth.
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Dr. H. H. Poole: Award of the Boyle Medal. Nature 137, 524 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137524b0
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