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H.M. THE KING has approved of the following awards this year by the president and council of the Royal Society: A Royal medal to Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, for his researches on condensation nuclei and atmospheric electricity; and a Royal medal to Mr. J. Barcroft, for his researches in physiology, and especially for his work in connexion with respiration. The following awards have also been made by the president and council: The Copley medal to Sir Ernest Rutherford, for his researches in radioactivity and atomic structure; the Rumford medal to Prof. Pieter Zeeman, for his researches in optics; the Davy medal to Prof. J. F. Thorpe, for his researches in synthetic organic chemistry; the Darwin medal to Prof. R. C. Punnett, for his researches in the science of genetics; the Buchanan medal to Sir David Bruce, for his researches and discoveries in tropical medicine; the Sylvester medal to Prof. T. LeviCivita, for his researches in geometry and mechanics; and the Hughes medal to Dr. F. W. Aston, for his discovery of isotopes of a large number of the elements by the method of positive rays.
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Current Topics and Events. Nature 110, 674–678 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110674b0
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