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RefNoNLB/72/454
AltRefNoNLB/72 p241
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint
Date31 October 1929
DescriptionAsks 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.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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