The well-known German scientist, Professor Max Planck, has been presented by the Royal Society with the Copley Medal, which is the highest honour the Society can confer. Professor Planck, 20 yeara ago, discovered the Quantum Theory which Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society, describes is "having effected not. only a veritable revolution in Physics but as having profoundly changed our methods of thought and concepts of philosophy." The Professor is also responsible for an invention which, in Sir Oliver Lodge's view, will have an important effect upon the future development of X-rays and light generally.
The Society has also awarded Royal medals to Professors Little-wood and Muir Davy, medals to Professors Lewis and Hughes and a medal to Professor Hans Qieger.
'The nobel prize for Physics for 1928 has been awarded to Professor O.R. Richardson, director of research in Physics' at Kingla College, London—British Wireless through Reuter,
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