MARCONI'S DECORATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 19

MARCONI'S DECORATIONS

The Empcioi of Japan lccontlv con < fencd upon Mai chose Maicom, on \tlle occasion of lus visit to Japan, the Grand Cordon of the Order of the I Rising Sun. In boetowing this honoui the Emperor made a/ notable depai ture fiom the general precedent in acconl ance with which this «lass of the. Order is reserved for Boy«l Princes oi ' the highest ranks of the diplomatic | corps in Japan. Among past honoui s confoired upon Maichcso Marconi are the honoian knighthood of the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, bestowed upon him m 1914, his Italian Marquisate, and numerous foreign orders and awards. He is president of the Italian Royal Academy, and b member of tho council of the Fascist Party and of the Italian Senate, and has been pro sented with the freedom of numerous cities, including Borne. Among the many scientific awards granted to him die the Nobel Pmo for Physics in 1909, the Franklin Medal and the John Frit* Medal awarded to him in the United States "for tho invention of wuoloss" telegraphy," the Kelvin Medal of the British Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Goethe Medal and Diploma presented to him by Piesident -yon Hindenburg last year Ho also holds honorary degieos ofmanj unrv ersitips, including Oxford, Cam bridge, Bologna, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana /