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AT a recent meeting of the Royal Society the following were elected to the foreign membership of the Society: Prof. Walter Bradford Cannon, professor of physiology in Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A., distinguished for (a) his X-ray investigations of the movements of the alimentary canal, (6) his analysis of the mechanism and conditions of excitation of the suprarenal gland, and (c) his work on the chemical transmission of impulses in peripheral nerves as shown by the sympathetic system; Prof. George von Hevesy, research professor in the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, distinguished for (a) his work in experimental chemical physics, particularly the use, for the solution of biological and chemical problems, of radioactive and isotopic substances as indicators, (b) for his discovery of hafnium, and (c) for his geochemical researches and for his work on isotopes and their separation; Prof. Herbert Freund-lich, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A., distinguished for his researches in colloid chemistry and colloid physics.
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The Royal Society: New Foreign Members. Nature 143, 846 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143846b0
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