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Founded in 1937 by the late William N/I. Vermilye, the award of the Vermilye
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This evening, it happens that the Edward G. Budd Lecture will be given by the recipient of the Vermilye Medal. So, in order to expedite matters, I am going to present to you
and a great friend of the The Franklin Institute. He was a descendant of Johannes Vermilye, an early Manhattan settler. It was his idea to endow a medal for industry to be awarded no more frequently than biennually by The Franklin Institute, this medal to require the same
At the end of the dinner, attended by a distinguished gathering of industrialists, bankers, and men prominent in civic affairs, Mr. Staples outlined briefly the policy of The Franklin Institute in awarding its medals and enumerated some of the outstanding scientists who had been honored in the past.
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 accomplishm