Gold Medal

Fig. 1-12 Gold medal with picture of Robert J. Kuhn. The medal was established by the Technical Committee of Cathodic Protection and first awarded in 1970 by the DVGW in Wurzburg.

While detailed discussion of the merits of PEN fibres is largely outside the scope of this book mention may be made of the success in preliminary trials of (yacht) sailcloths made from PEN fibre. PEN fibres have a modulus roughly 2.5 X that of PET, exhibit excellent flex life and also show very good UV resistance. It is understood that the one yacht fitted with PEN sailcloth in the 1996 Olympics won the gold medal in its event. 

Professor Pankaj is a graduate and Ph.D. from Lucknow University, India (1982) with specialization in Inorganic Chemistry and a victor of M Raman Nayer Gold Medal. 

The swimmer s back injury his prospects for a gold medal... 

Story of the Gold Medal and Nazis, as well as other Nobel laureate stories. http //nobelprize.org/nobel prizes/medals/... 

In the end, the Academy divided the prize between three people, one of whom was Lavoisier, who was presented with a medal on August 9,1766. The presentation was described by the Avant-Coureur (which misspelled Lavoisier s name) as follows There was a paper full of curious research and the best physics, done by M. Ravoisier [sic] whom the Academy of Sciences praised. The king awarded him a gold medal, which was publicly presented by the president of the Academy. ... 

After the publication of his atomic theory, Dalton s fame increased steadily, and he began to receive numerous honors. He was elected to membership in the French Academy of Sciences in 1816, and he became president of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society the following year. When George IV announced in 1825 that he would be giving two gold medals annually, the Royal Society, which administered the awards, gave one of them to Dalton. And in 1832 Oxford University awarded Dalton an honorary doctor of civil law degree. 

Mendeleev studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the Institute. Shortly after he was admitted, his mother died. A year later his sister Liza, who had accompanied them to St. Petersburg, died also. But Mendeleev continued to work hard at his studies, graduated first in his class in 1855, and was awarded a gold medal. However, as was the custom, the examiners praised not Mendeleev but his chemistry professor A. A.Voskresenski, for having produced such a fine pupil. 

Eugene Houdry was born in Domont, France, near Paris, on April 18, 1892. His father owned a successful steel factory, and Eugene enrolled in mechanical engineering at the Ecole des Arts et Metiers in Paris to prepare totakeoverthefamily business. He graduated in 1911 with a gold medal for the best grades of any student in his class. 

Singer has received numerous awards for his research, including a Special Commendation from the White House for achievements in artificial earth satellites, a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, and the first Science Medal from the British Interplanetary Society. He has served on state and federal advisory panels, including five years as vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres. He frequently testifies before Congress. 

The storage of cold neutrons (the idea and the experiment) was registered officially as a discovery in 1958. Ya.B. was awarded the Kurchatov gold medal for this work. 

The yield of glutamic acid hydrochloride varies somewhat with the brand of flour. The results described in this procedure were obtained with Gold Medal flour. 

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was bom in Milton, Massachusetts. He received many architectural awards including the Gold Medals of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He received 47 honorary doctorates, was awarded 27 U.S. patents, and wrote 25 books. He is best known for his introduction of the geodesic dome for buildings. There are now over 300,000 geodesic domes in the world. 

Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson (1961- ) tests positive for anabolic-androgenic steroids (AASs) at the Seoul Olympic games and forfeits his gold medal to the second-place finisher, American Carl Lewis (1961-). 

Creatine was thrust into the global athletic scene in 1992 when British sprinter Linford Christie won a gold medal after reportedly training with the aid of... 

Kochetkov was awarded the Gold Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1986 and the Haworth Memorial Medal of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry for achievements in carbohydrate chemistry in 1989. He was a member of the Chemical Society of Trance (since 1973) and a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1988). 

N. K. Kochetkov, Structure and synthesis of polysaccharides (Lomonosov Great Gold Medal winner lecture), Vestnik Ross. Akad. Nauk, 65 (1995) 730-738. 

In recognition of his numerous accomplishments, he received international acclaim. He became a member of the Kaiserlich Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher zu Halle and a correspondent of the Schlesische Gesell-schaft fur Yaterlandische Kultur. Finally, in 1940, he was awarded the A. W. Hofmann Gold Medal. 

In world-class competitions such as the Olympics, the difference between winning a gold medal and watching on the sidelines often depends on a hundredth of a second. For skiers, it boils down to what type of ski wax they use to reduce the friction of skis on snow. 

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