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THE Croonian Lecture for 1949 will be delivered on June 30 by Dr. D. W. Bronk, foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the National Research Council of the United States. As director of the Johnson Institute for Medical Physics in the University of Pennsylvania, he has greatly influenced the development of biophysics, his special field of work being the physiology of the nervous system ; his recent work has been on the oxygen consumption of the brain. The Croonian Lecture was founded by Dr. William Croone, one of the original fellows of the Royal Society, "for a lecture and illustrative experiment for the advancement of natural knowledge on local motion" ; the first lecture was delivered in 1738.
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Royal Society Lectures for 1949. Nature 163, 317 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163317d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163317d0