Record

RefNoMDA/D/1/5
AltRefNo9E
Previous numbersD1.6
LevelFile
TitleCorrespondence on Hughes Medal awards
Date1936-1952
DescriptionCopies of Secretarial letters announcing the award of the Hughes Medal to recipients, with their replies, usually expressing appreciation. With associated correspondence, on matters such as arrangements for attendance at meetings for medal presentations. The file includes a copy statement in support of the award to Max Born.

The Hughes Medal, in gold, with a copy in silver, 'to such person as the President and Council consider the most worthy recipient, without restriction of sex or nationality, as the reward of original discovery in the Physical Sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications, such discovery or applications having been published not less than one year before the award'.
Extent1 file
FormatTypescript
Typescript copy
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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