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THE following awards of medals have been made by the president and council of the Royal Society: Copley Medal to Prof. T. H. Morgan, For.Mem.R.S., director of the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, for his establishment of the modern science of genetics, which has revolutionized our understanding, not only of heredity, but of the mechanism and nature of evolution; Davy Medal to Prof. J. W. McBain, F.R.S., professor of chemistry in Stanford University, for his distinguished work in the study of colloidal electrolytes, for providing the elements of the guiding theory, and for developing the subject; Hughes Medal to Prof. G. P. Thomson, F.R.S., professor of physics in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, for his important discoveries in connexion with the diffraction of electrons by matter.
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Royal Society Medal Awards. Nature 144, 825 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144825a0
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