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Professor Wheeler, the leader of the expedition was awarded the Dewey Medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences on April 21 of this year for his outstanding work on insects, notably his studies of the comparative psychology of ants." The Medal is bestowed every three years for the best publication, exploration, discovery or research in the natural sciences...
...forces (Einstein). Sir James has the mathematical baggage and creative imagination requisite for joining that group. But he applies himself to descriptions of the universe and its relatively minute stellar components. It was for that work that the Franklin Institute deemed him worthy of U. S. Physics' top medal...
Another figure present was Professor Willis Rodney Whitney, nonresident professor of chemical research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, director of General Electric's research laboratories. Professor Whitney also received a Franklin Medal. The burden of his talk (he is a diffident speaker, Sir James a fluent one) was that there are infinite opportunities for useful and amusing work in industrial laboratories for willing young...
Willard Gibbs Medal. If Professor Whitney had not been busy getting his Franklin Medal in Philadelphia he would have tried to be in Chicago where the Willard Gibbs Medal, which he already has, was being bestowed by the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society upon Dr. Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene. Dr. Levene, 62, Russian-born, has been a member of the Rockefeller Institute since 1907. He began as a doctor of medicine, changed quickly after his emigration to the U. S. (1893) to the chemistry of living material. As a biochemist he ranks with the world's best...
...Samuel Insull, Chicago utilitarian, in 1914 gave the Franklin Institute (of the State of Pennsyvlania for the Promotion of the Mechanical Arts) funds to pay for the Franklin Medal and traveling expenses of the medalists. Sir James's expense check approximated...