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IPPS Awards

JUL 01, 1964
Physics Today

The Council of the British Institute of Physics and the Physical Society recently announced the following appointments and awards for 1964:

The Charles Vernon Boys Prize, given annually for research in experimental physics, was awarded to Andrew R. Lang of Bristol University for his development of the technique of x‐ray topography. Dr. Lang was educated at the University College of the South‐West, the University of London, and at Cambridge, receiving his PhD from the last‐named institution in 1953. During the period 1954–59, he served as an assistant professor of physical metallurgy at Harvard University, and since 1960 has been lecturer in physics at Bristol. A member of the American Crystallographic Association, Dr. Lang is a former chairman of the ACA Apparatus and Standards Sub‐Committee.

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