Medal Awards at the Franklin Institute

Abstract

AT a meeting of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, on May 20, the following medal awards were made: Franklin Medals to Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and president and director of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, for his many important contributions to telephony alone and in collaboration with other workers in the great laboratory of research which he has directed with such signal success, and to Dr. Charles Franklin Ketter-ing, vice-president and director of the General Motors Corporation and general director of the General Motors Research Laboratories, Detroit, for his contributions to the science of automotive engineering; Elliott Cresson Medals to Dr. George O. Curme, jun., of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation, New York City, for his work on synthetic aliphatic compounds based upon the olefines as starting material and their use in industry, and to Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for his development of an electrostatic generator for the production of high-voltage direct currents; Edward Longstreth Medals to Dr. Alfred V. de Forest, president of the Magnaflux Corporation, New York City, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Major William E. Hoke, consulting engineer, Baltimore, for his work on a method of detection of hidden defects, primarily at or near the surface of magnetic materials; Peter P-G. Hall, president of the Hall Planetary Co., Philadelphia, for his invention and development of machine and cutters for planetary milling and threading; Elmer A. Sperry, jun., vice-president of Sperry Products, Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y., for his development of blind-flying instruments employing gyroscopic principles; John Price Wetherill Medal to Albert L. Marsh, president of the Hoskins Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Michigan, makers of electric furnaces, pyrometers and resistance wire; Walton Clark Medal to Dr. Joseph Becker, of the Koppers Construction Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., for his improvements in the art of carbonisation of coal and manufacture of gas in coke ovens, and particularly for his work in the development of the oven known as the ‘Becker Oven’; Louis Edward Levy Medal to Mayo D. Hersey, of Brown University, for his papers on the theory of lubrication, published in the June, July, August and September issues of the Journal of the Institute for 1935; Howard N. Potts Medal to Dr. Felix A. Vening Meinesz, Amersfoort, Holland, professor of geodesy and geophysics at the University of Utrecht, for his work in geodesy, and for the development and use of apparatus for determining gravity at sea.