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THE Society of Chemical Industry has awarded its Messel Medal this year to Sir Robert Mond. This medal is awarded to those who have attained eminence in applied chemistry, and is given in alternate years. Sir Robert Mond has for many years been associated with prominent concerns in the chemical industry. He is a director of the International Nickel Co., the South Staffordshire Mond Gas Co., and the Mond Staffordshire Refinery Company, Ltd., and his directorships in the past have included those of the Mond Nickel Co., and Brunner Mond and Co. Sir Robert was born in Lancashire. He is the son of the great industrial chemist Dr. Ludwig Mond, and the award of the medal will be felt by many chemists to be not only an acknowledgment of Sir Robert Mond's own services to chemical industry in Great Britain, but also a reminder of the important part taken by the Mond family in the progress of industrial chemistry in Great Britain. Dr. Ludwig Mond, Sir Robert's father, was prominent in the early organisation of the Society of Chemical Industry, having been one of its first secretaries in 1881 and its president in 1888. Sir Robert was educated at Cheltenham, Cambridge, Zurich and Edinburgh, and worked for some time with Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin. He was largely responsible for the planning and equipment of the Davy Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution. Sir Robert is also well known for his interest in Egyptology; and he is also chairman of the Norman Lockyer Observatory Corporation. He was knighted in 1931.
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Sir Robert Mond: Award of Messel Medal. Nature 137, 607 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137607a0
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