Abstract
A CHARLES L. MAYER AWARD of 2,000 dollars, offered by the National Science Fund of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for an essay on the nature of light, has been allocated to Dr. C. Jayaratnam Eliezer, for a paper on “The Interaction of Particles and an Electromagnetic Field”. Dr. Eliezer, who is twenty-eight years old, is a native of Ceylon. After a distinguished career at the Ceylon University College, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, and read for the Mathematical Tripos. He began Research studies in quantum mechanics under the supervision of Prof. P. A. M. Dirac, and won an Isaac Newton Studentship and a Smith's Prize. During 1943-46 he was lecturing at the University of Ceylon, returning to Cambridge in 1946 as a research fellow of Christ's College. A second Charles L. Mayer Award was offered but was not awarded, no other essay received being considered suitable.
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