Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar, Yao made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism Yao was offered a copper medal and later a reward of 1,000 taels. An ardent Christian, he thought that figure too high, gladly accepted the medal and 500 taels. From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most of his time with...
Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 74, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime assistant to Thomas A. Edison, codiscoverer of the radio-reflecting region of electrified air called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer; the Mascart Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal...
Edward Ray Weidlein, 48, director of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research; the presidency of the American Chemical Society for 1937. William Frederick Durand, 76, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Stanford University; the John Fritz medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: for contributions to hydrodynamic and aerodynamic science...
Warren Kendall Lewis, 53, professor of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wartime director of U. S. research on gas defense; the Perkin Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry: for "creative activities as the father of modern chemical engineering...
...William Mansfield Clark, 51, professor of physiological chemistry at Johns Hopkins; the Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society: for researches ''of incalculable value" to medicine (explanation of oxidation and deoxidation processes in the body; methods of determining the acid-alkali balance in water purification and sewage disposal). Dr. Owen Harding Wangensteen, 37, surgery professor at University of Minnesota's medical school; the Samuel D. Gross Prize in surgery ($1,500) of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery: for innovations in the treatment of intestinal obstructions. Percy White Zimmerman, 51, and Albert Edwin Hitchcock, 38, plant physiologists...