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THE Council of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has awarded the 1948 James Clayton Prize of £1,350 to Mr. Karl Baumann, for his contributions to the advancement of mechanical engineerging science by way of invention, design and investigation, communicated, in part, in a lecture delivered to the Institution in 1948. Mr. K. Baumann is the chief mechanical engineer and a director of the Metro-politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Manchester. His professional life has been largely identified with the development of the modern steam power station including steam turbines and boiler plant, and latterly the internal combustion turbine. He received the Institution's premier award, the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal, for a paper published in 1930. The James Clayton Bequest is for the distribution annually, on research, investigation and the enpouragement of mechanical engineering science, of three-quarters of the income of the fund. The remaining quarter of the income is for the award (James Clayton Prize) to a member, associate member, graduate or student of the Institution, who contributes most in the year to modern mechanical engineering science. Previous awards have been made to Sir Frank Whittle (1945), Mr. Hayne Constant (1946), Sir Richard Southwell (1946), Mr. T. E. Beacham (1947), and Mr. J. E. Sears (1947).
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers : James Clayton Prize. Nature 163, 277 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163277c0
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