| Reference number | NLB/72/454 |
| Alternative reference number | NLB/72 p241 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint |
| Date | 31 October 1929 |
| Description | Asks for the striking of the Royal Society's Copley, Royal, Davy, and Huges Medals. States that the Copley, Davy and Hughes Medals are to be struck in gold and should be accompanied by silver replicas. Requests cases for the medals. Lists the recipients:
For the Copley Medal: Professor Max Planck, ForMemRS
For the Royal Medals: Professor John Edensor Littlewood FRS, and Professor Robert Muir FRS
For the Davy Medal: Professor Gilbert Newton Lewis
For the Hughes Medal: Professor Hans Geiger. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Carbon |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |