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Presentation of the first Fritz London Award

MAR 01, 1958
The photograph at right shows N. Kurti of the Clarendon Laboratory receiving the first Fritz London Awari on August 26, 1957, during the 5th International Conference on Low‐Temperature Physics and Chemistry at Madison, Wisc. J. G. Daunt, whose presentation remarks are included here, is dean of chemistry an physics at the Ohio State University.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3062446

J. G. Daunt

IT is my very pleasant duty this afternoon to make the presentation of the First Fritz London Award to Dr. Nicholas Kurti. In doing so, I shall act on behalf of the 1957 Fritz London Award Committee which has the following members: Dean F. G. Brickwedde. Professor W. M. Fairbank, Dr. E. F. Hammel, and Dr. H. O. McMahon, and myself as chairman. I am also acting on behalf of the whole organization of the Fifth International Conference on Low‐Temperature Physics and Chemistry, at which biennial conferences these awards are to be, we hope, a regular feature. I also act on behalf of the sponsors of the award, the Arthur D. Little Foundation.

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J. G. Daunt. Dean of chemistry and physics, the Ohio State University.

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Volume 11, Number 3

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