Word: charlier
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Gold medals of the Academy for 'distinguished scientific achievement were awarded to: Otto Sven Petterson, Sweden, for studies in the chemistry and physics of the sea; Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge, Eng land, for his interpretation of the Einstein theory applied to astronomical problems; C. V. Ludwig Charlier, Sweden, for contributions to astronomy; Bashford Dean, Columbia, for his Biography of Fishes; William Morton Wheeler, Harvard, for his Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition; Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, for his study of the North American Bryozoa (small marine animals). The medals to foreign scientists were received by their respective embassies...
...Charlier, astronomer and mathematican, of Lund, Sweden, who is on his way to deliver a series of lectures during the spring and summer at the University of California, is coming to the Harvard Observatory today to spend a few days conferring with members of the Observatory staff...
...Charlier is Sweden's most famous astronomer, and is widely known as an authority on the mathematical theory of statistics...