Proceedings of the stated meeting held Wednesday, May 20, 1914

✍ Scribed by R.B. Owens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1914
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 43 KB
• Volume: 177
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(14)91001-8

✦ Synopsis

Additions to membership, ii. The chairman announced that the first business of the meeting would be the presentation of Elliott Cresson Medals to the distinguished scientists who had recently been recommended for this recognition by the Committee on Science and the Arts, and recognized Dr. Harry F. Keller, who then introduced Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Dr. Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio.

The chairman presented the medal and diploma to each of these gentlemen.

Mr. Louis E. Levy was then recognized and described briefly the work of Dr. Carl Paul Gottfried Linde, of Munich, Germany, in the field of low temperature production and commercial refrigeration, and the researches of Dr. Josef Maria Eder, of Vienna, Austria, in the science of photochemistry, the foreign medalists who were unable to be present and to whom the medals would be forwarded.