Sir George Beilby Memorial Awards

Abstract

THE administrators of the Beilby Memorial Fund—the presidents, treasurers and secretaries of the Institute of Chemistry, the Society of Chemical Industry and the Institute of Metals respectively—have awarded one hundred guineas each to Dr. F. P. Bowden and Dr. Brynmor Jones. Dr. Bowden was educated at the Hutchins School, Hobart, and at the University of Tasmania. He went to Cambridge in 1927, entered Gonville and Caius College and continued electrochemical work in the laboratory of physical chemistry with Prof. F. K. Rideal and Prof. T. M. Lowry. In 1931 he was elected to a research fellowship at Caius College and was appointed University demonstrator in chemistry. In 1937 he was appointed to the Humphrey Owen Jones lectureship in physical chemistry. His electrochemical work has been mainly on over-potential and the mechanism of electro-deposition. His other work on the physical properties of surfaces has an important bearing on the problems of friction, lubrication and wear. Dr. B. Jones studied metallurgy during 1919-22 at University College, Cardiff, under Prof. A. E. Read. From 1927 until 1929 he was attached to the Metallurgical Branch of the Research Department of Woolwich Arsenal, and afterwards was appointed lecturer in metallurgy at University College, Cardiff. Dr. Jones has devised many methods in metallurgical analyses. His outstanding published work has been on the subject of the nitrogen-hardening and on the heat-treatment of steels, which has been appearing in the Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute.