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THE Charles Chree Medal and Prize, founded by Miss Jessie Chree in memory of her brother, the late Dr. Charles Chree, is to be awarded biennially to men of science who have contributed to the advancement of knowledge in those subjects in which Dr. Chree was particularly interested, and to which he had made signal contributions. The responsibility for, and the administration of, the award has been placed by Miss Chree in the hands of the Physical Society, and the Council of the Society has made the first award of the Medal and Prize to Prof. Sydney Chapman. Many minds in many countries have contributed to the advancement of the science of geomagnetism, and there are few branches of physics in which international co-operation is more desirable. British physicists have played a full part in the development of the science—Norman, Gilbert, Halley, Sabine (may we claim Lamont?), and Chree himself, are outstanding names.
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Charles Chree Medal and Prize. Nature 147, 261 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147261a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147261a0