Word: medalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Maurice Zoll '32, of Roxbury, were admitted as associate members at a meeting last night. Both are members of the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa from their class of 1932. Birkhoff is concentrating in Mathematics, while Zoll is specializing in Psychology. Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, Draper medalist in Astronomy this year, was among the new members...
...Geographical Review. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Meteorological Society of London, he served, in 1917 and in 1920-21 respectively, as president of the Association of American Geographers and of the American Meteorological Society. In 1926 he was gold medalist of the Harvard Travelers Club...
This year Jacob Fred Schoellkopf, Buffalo power and dye tycoon, contributed a gold medal, named for his late father, to honor important industrial research. First Schoellkopf medalist, named last week, is President Frank Jerome Tone, 63, of Carborundum Co., who helped develop that and other synthetic abrasives, who originated the first commercial process for producing silicon metal (used in electrical transformers, alloys, hydrogen manufacture), who possesses "to an unusual degree the rare combination of the qualities of the pure scientist, the plant engineer, and the successful business administrator." Graduates of Hill School and Cornell of six or seven years...
...James, prominent as a mathematician as well as an astronomer, has been elected the Medalist of the Franklin Institute for the present year. "The Mysterious Universe," "The Universe Around. Us," and "The Stars in Their Courses" are the best known of the books which the eminent scientist has written on the field which he is to treat in his lecture tonight. From 1919 to 1928, he was the secretary of the Royal Society, and has been since 1923 Research Associate of the Mount Wilson Observatory, of which he has been the guest during the first part of the present year...
...American Philosophical Society, which is tycoonish and social as well as scientific, this year elected among 25 new members Walter Sherman Gifford, Frank Billings Kellogg, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Adolph Simon Ochs, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. But no women. Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928. Before her was Annie Jump Cannon, 67, Harvard's patient star recorder...