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THE following awards have been made by the Iron and Steel Institute: the Andrew Carnegie Gold Medal for 1938 to Dr. James White, of Glasgow, in respect of his paper on “Equilibrium at High Temperatures in Systems Containing Iron Oxides”; an Andrew Carnegie Gold Medal also to Dr. W. Ruff, of Wetzlar-Lahn, Germany, in respect of his paper on “The Running Quality of Liquid Malleable Iron and Steel”, published in 1936; the Williams Prize for 1938 for a paper of practical interest to Mr. D. V. Krishna Rao of Bhadravati, India, in respect of his paper on “The New Steel Plant of the Mysore Iron and Steel Works, Bhadravati, India”; the Ablett Prize for 1939, for a paper by a junior engineer, to Mr. H. Escher of Wollongong, Australia, for his paper on “Ten Years Development in Steam Engineering at the Port Kembla Steel Works, N.S.W., Australia”. The following Andrew Carnegie research scholarships have been awarded: O. Gessner (Breslau, Germany), £100 in aid of a research on the viscosity of cast-iron alloys, steel, metals and alloys and slags; B. Ljunggren (Stockholm, Sweden), £100 for a microsclerometric investigation of grain boundaries; G. Parker (University, Leeds), £100 in aid of a research on oxidation and scaling of steel.
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Iron and Steel Institute Awards. Nature 143, 851 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143851a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143851a0