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ROYAL SOCIETY AWARDS COPLEY MEDAL
QUANTUM THEORY FINDER British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. A former recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Professor Max Planck, of Berlin, has been presented by the Royal Society with the Copley Medal, which is the highest honour the society can confer. Professor Planck 30 years ago discovered the quantum theory, which Sir Ernest Rutherford, president of the Royal Society, describes as “having the effect not only of a veritable revolution in physics, but of profoundly changing our methods cf thoughts and the concepts of philosophy.”
Professor Planck is also responsible for a new invention, which, i?T Sir Oliver Lodge’s view, will have an important effect upon the future development. of X-rays and light generally. The Royal Society has also awarded Royal medals to Professor J. E. Littlewood, of Cambridge, the Muir Davy Medal to Professor G. N. Lewis and the Hughes Medal to Professor Hans Geiger, of Zurich.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 9
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156HIGHEST HONOUR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 9
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