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Presentation of the Vermilye Medal

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1958
Tongue: English
Weight: 234 KB
Volume: 266
Category: Article
ISSN: 0016-0032
DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(58)90351-x

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being an extremely busy and active man, it has taken us this time to get our net around him.

"The Franklin Institute, as you know, holds regular meetings at which we bring to you, Members of the Institute and friends, the great scientists and engineers of the age who present to us their accomplishments, lectures on their works and their achievements. One of these meetings, the regular Stated Meeting in October each year, is devoted to the presentation of the great Franklin Institute medals. These cherished awards are given to outstanding scientists and engineers throughout the world for achievement in the mechanical and scientific arts. This day in October is known as Medal Day.

"This evening we have another medal of The Franklin Institute to award, a medal which in the accepted dictionary definition doesn't come under quite the term 'science,' though we are convinced that the practice of the arts in which this evening's medalist is skilled is indeed

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