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W. G. Grot, Discovey and Development ofNafion PefluorinatedMembranes, The Castner Medal Lecture, 3rd London International Chlorine Symposium, June, 1985. 

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.

In 1862 the Great International Exhibition was held in London and was visited by six million people. At this exhibition a bronze medal was awarded to Parkes for his exhibit Ptu kesine. This was obtained by first preparing a suitable cellulose nitrate and dissolving it in a minimum of solvent. The mixture was then put on a heated rolling machine, from which some of the solvent was then removed. While still in the plastic state the material was then shaped by dies or pressure . In 1866 the Parkesine Co., Ltd was formed but it failed in 1868. This appears in part due to the fact that in trying to reduce production costs products inferior to... 

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. 

Figure 4,2, Medal struck in Austria to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the critical shear stress law by Erich Schmid. The image represents a stereographic triangle with "isobars showing crystal orientations of constant resolved shear stress (courtesy H.P. Stiiwe).

The Snoek pendulum, which in the most general sense is a device to measure relaxations, has also been used to measure relaxation caused by tangential displacements at grain boundaries. This application has been the central concern of a distinguished Chinese physicist, Tingsui Ke, for all of the past 55 years. He was stimulated to this study by Clarence Zener, in 1945, and pursued the approach, first in Chicago and then in China. This exceptional fidelity to a powerful quantitative technique was recognised by a medal and an invitation to deliver an overview lecture in America, recently published shortly before his death (Ke 1999). 

Figure 5.4. Poilrail of A.A. Gritiilli on a silver medal sponsored by Rolls-Royce, his erslwhilc...

Bronze (alloy of eopper and tin) used for eoins, medals, statues, ehureh bells. 

Milos Hudlicky, a native of Czechoslovakia, obtained his Ph D from the Technical University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After spending 1948 at the Ohio State University as a UNESCO postdoctoral fellow, he taught as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor at the Technical University in Prague until 1958. He then worked as a research associate at the Research Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry in Prague. After the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he moved to the United States, where he was offered a professorship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University He has been Professor Emeritus since 1989. He received the Votocek Medal in Prague in 1992 for his work in chemistry. 

Denk-mal, n. monument memorial, -mtinze /. commemorative medal, -schrift, /. memoir memorandum memorial. denkwUrdig, a. memorable, notable, denn, conj. for, because, then, dennocb, coni, yet, however. 

Mechanisierung,/. mechanization. Mechamsmus, m. mechanism machinery. Meconsaure, /. meconic acid, med., abbrev. (mediziniach) medical, medicinal. Medaille, /. medal. 

Miiiize,/, coin mon medal mint (for coining) mint (the herb),... 

Ipatieff never received the honor he coveted the most, the Nobel Prize. However, he continued to publish voluminously and, ever the practical scientist, he obtained numerous patents. He continued to receive honors in the United States and internationally. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the prestigious Gibbs medal for his many achievements. Ipatieff lived long enough to see the petroleum industry transformed with process technologies that he created and that were rooted in his early scientific research. The first platforming plant, the cuhniiiation of his life s work in catalytic research, came on line just shortly before his death in 1952. 

Physicists around the world gradually came to appreciate Mayer s scientific work, but by this time they were unsure whether he was still alive and, if so, what his mental condition was. In his later years he finally reaped some fruit from his scientific labors. In 1859 he received an honorai y doctorate from the University of Tiibmgen. This was followed in 1871 by his reception of the Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London, and then the Prix Poncelet from the Paris Academy of Sciences. It is unknown how appreciative Mayer was of this belated notoriety when he died of tuberculosis in 1878. 

Oersted was named a fellow of several learned societies, presented with medals, and awarded cash prizes. At home, Oersted became Denmark s leading citizen. He continued his research, but as an international figure he traveled extensively, became fluent in many languages, and met with the leading scientists of the time. He gave frequent public lectures and became a director of the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Copenhagen. He also had a lifelong interest in literature and, in 1829, he founded a literary journal to which he frequently contributed articles about sci-... 

Sakharov received many honors. He was elected as a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1953 (at only age thirty-two) he was awarded three Hero of Socialist Labor Medals he received a Stalin Prize and he was given a counti y cottage. Sakharov s anti-Soviet activism cost him these rewards. 

Successful theories typically both accommodate and predict. Most people, however, are more impressed by predictions than by accommodations. When Mendeleev produced a theory of the periodic table that accounted for all sixty [really sixty-two] known elements, the scientific community was only mildly impressed. When he went on to use his theory to predict the existence of two unknown elements that were then independently detected, the Royal Society awarded him its Davy Medal, . , Sixty accommodations paled next to two predictions, (Lipton, 1991, p, 134)... 

No one could deny, of course, that it is one thing for a theory to make predictions of the existence of hitherto unknown elements and quite another for it to make successful, empirically verified predictions. But neither Maher nor Lipton—nor, so far as we can see, anyone else—cites any substantial evidence for the sceptical attitude of Mendeleev s fellow scientists in 1869 or 1871 and the only evidence they cite for the increased confidence in the theory as a result of the successful predictions is the award to Mendeleev of the Davy Medal in 1882-— and this, as we show in the next sub-section, turns out to be (worse than) unconvincing. 

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