Award of the Franklin medal

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1915
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 479 KB
• Volume: 180
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(15)90273-9

✦ Synopsis

HEIKE KAMERLINGH ONNES, of Leiden, Holland, in recognition of his "long-continued and indefatigable labors in low-temperature research, which have enriched physical science not only with a great number of new methods and ingenious devices, but also with achievements and discoveries of the first magnitude."

THOMAS ALVA EDISON, of Orange, N. J., in recognition of the value of "numerous basic inventions and discoveries forming the foundation of world-wide industries, signally contributing to the well-being, comfort, and pleasure of the human race.