other awards to Chadwick

Contents of formal dossier on other Awards presented to Sir JAMES CHADWICK, and other Nobel Prize Medals struck by Royal Swedish Mint (Contents of formal dossier ):
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The Mackenzie-Davidson Medal of the British Institute of Radiology, 7th December 1932
1 - Photos of medal, case; info. on dimensions etc.
2 - British Institute of Radiology web pages: on the Mackenzie-Davidson Memorial Lecture, on Sir James Mackenzie-Davidson, & on the history of the Institute
3 - Mackenzie-Davidson Medal recipients 1920-2004, from an Institute web page
Bronze medal instituted in 1920, to honor Sir James Mackenzie Davidson (1856-1919), awarded annually. Chadwick always hoped that the neutron would have medical-radiological applications.

Medal commemorating the first Chain Reaction research, 1939 (inscriptions struck in French)
4 - Photos of medal, case; info. on dimensions etc.
5 - Quotes from Lev Kowarski on the first Chain Reaction research, 1939, from the American Institute of Physics web site
6 - "Liberation of Neutrons in the Nuclear Explosion of Uranium", and "Number of Neutrons Liberated in the Nuclear Fission of Uranium", by H. VON HALBAN, F. JOLIOT & L. KOWARSKI, Nature magazine, 1939
7 - Excerpts from a U. of British Columbia web page on 20th century physics' "loss of innocence", on the 1939 chain reaction research as showing way to the A-bomb
8 - 9 Articles on Chadwick's hoard of papers by Halban and Kowarski (sent by Chadwick to the Royal Society in 1940, with a note of explanation that he considered them "inadvisable to publish at the present time"); incl. is photo of "an impression of the great man's own thumb in red wax" with which the papers were sealed 10 - Biog. entries on honored chain-reaction pioneers Jean Frederic Joliot, Lev Kowarski, and Hans von Halban, from various web sites and the New York Times
To celebrate "75 years of the neutron", the Royal Society's summer 2002 Library exhibition featured secret papers sent by Chadwick to the Royal Society in 1940, with a note of explanation that he considered them 'inadvisable to publish at the present time.' These papers, the work of French scientists von Halban and Kowarski, contained detailed instructions on the creation of plutonium and the building of a nuclear reactor.
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A specimen of this medal, unboxed, is in the Fermi archive (of seventeen medals, incl. his Nobel Prize) at the University of Chicago Regenstein library.

Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Fine Arts of Belgium, Associate-member's diploma , 1945
11 - Photos of envelope in which diploma was sent to Chadwick, and excerpts from articles, describing the role of Belgian-held uranium in the 1940's (the context of his being honored by Belgium) from arms-control and book-review web sites
12 - Diploma translation from French; Royal Academy of Sciences etc., intro. web page
13 - Photo, and larger photocopy, of diploma (dated 15 December 1945)
The Academy consists of 90 members, 60 correspondent members and 150 associate members (foreign members).

The Trasenster Medal of the Association of Engineers of the Universite of Liege, Belgium, 1946
14 - Medal Regulations, (translated from French) from 19/09/2006 email from Claudine Voisin, Association of Engineers of the Universite de Liege; photos of Medal and case; info. on: dimensions etc.
15 - Biog. info. on G. Trasenster, and history of U. of Liege, from U. of Liege web site
16 - Letters from the U.K. Foreign Office Undersecretary of State, pertaining to Chadwick's receipt of the Trasenster Medal, 18 March, 21 March, and 8 April 1946
Silver medal instituted in 1932, honoring M. Gustav Trasenster, (1855-1931) industrialist and university teacher of applied sciences; awarded annually.

The Melchett Medal of the (U.K.) Energy Institute (formerly the Institute of Fuel), 1946
17 - Wikipedia essay on Alfred Mond, 1st Lord Melchett
18 - Photo of diploma (dated 9 October 1946)
19 - 21 Introductory info. on Energy Institute, and on Melchett Medal, and list of Melchett Medal recipients, 1930-2003, all from Energy Institute web site
22 - Biog. essay on Lord Melchett, from website of the Weizmann Institute of Science
23 - Photos of medal, case, diploma; info. on dimensions etc.
24 - 31 The Melchett Lecture, 1946, by Chadwick, 8 October 1946, in London (from Journal of the Institute of Fuel, December 1946) .
32 - T.S. Elliot's famous poem "A Cooking Egg", with verse about Lord Melchett; Excerpts from essays, from various web sites, on: maker of Melchett . Medal; maker of Mackenzie Davidson Medal
33 - Royal Horticultural Society Medallion, awarded 1925 to wife Lady Violet Melchett, D.B.E. (photo); original photo of Lady Melchett
Melchett Medal (bronze) instituted in 1930; awarded annually, to honor Alfred Mond (1868-1930), politician and industrialist, who became Lord Melchett in 1928. He first visited Palestine in 1921 with Chaim Weizmann and subsequently became an enthusiastic Zionist, contributing money to the Jewish Colonization Corporation for Palestine and writing for Zionist publications. He became President of the British Zionist Foundation and made financial contributions to Zionist causes. He was the first President of the Technion in 1925, and founded the town of Tel Mond , now in Israel.

34 - The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Anniversary Medal 1808-1958 : photos, and Wikipedia article on Academy structure, history etc.

The Guthrie Medal and Prize of the (U.K.) Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, 1967
35 - Photos of medal, case; info. on dimensions etc.
36 - 37 History of the Guthrie Medal and Prize, and of the Institute of Physics, from the Institute's web site; biog. info. on . Frederick Guthrie, from Wikipedia
38 - List of previous winners of the Guthrie Medal and Prize, 1914-2006

39 - Excerpts from Brock, William H., "The Chemical Origins of Practical Physics", on Guthrie's major contribution to the teaching of physics as we know it today
Bronze medal first awarded in 1966; Prize had been instituted in 1914, awarded annually, honoring Frederick Guthrie (1833-1886) scientific writer and professor, and also a linguist, playwright, and poet. Under the name Frederick Cerny, he wrote the poems The Jew (1863) and Logrono (1877); of them it has been written:

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"Guthrie's two poetic attempts are not without interest, for their subject matter on both occasions was the outsider: the Jew and the Gypsy. The Jew (1863), a Miltonesque and Dante-esque meditation on the problem of evil, seen through the eyes of a Jew who offered no solace to Christ on the march to Calvary, is not without fine moments, and may be interpreted as a defense of 'seeking knowledge' in order to improve a sinful and intransigent world."

The Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) Radioactivity Medal 1896
40 - Photos of medal and box; info. on dimensions etc.; historical info. on Royal Begeer, (maker of Becquerel Medal) from Grove Art Online and other websites
41 - Biog. essay on Becquerel, from Nobel Foundation web site
A specimen of this medal, unboxed, is in the Fermi archive (of seventeen medals, incl. his Nobel Prize) at the University of Chicago Regenstein library.
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Miscellaneous
42 - 43 Other Nobel Prize Medals struck by Royal Swedish Mint: . Silver Nobel Prize in Literature Medal, same size etc. as the awarded gold medals, issued c. 1902 to only a few museums and collectors; "Hollow" bronze plaques , ea. 65 mm., of reverses of Nobel medals for Literature, Medicine, and Science; Gold and silver medals, 27 mm. diameter, given to members of Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences or the Royal Academy of Medicine, for having attended meetings where they voted on ratification of those nominated by the Nobel Committees to become Laureates

44 - Image of Alfred Nobel, gold relief on leather, for impression onto front interior of Nobel Prize Medical diploma; list of books about and by the Institutions presenting, and persons depicted upon, these Medals presented to Chadwick

45 - Letter from Anders Barany to J. Schramek , (on official Nobel Museum stationary) 05-03-2001, thanking Schramek for sending a book about medals awarded to E. Rutherford, and indicating enclosure of the book Nobel Medals as a gift from its author Lars O. Lagerqvist.
Anders Barany is Professor of Physics at Stockholm University and Senior Curator at the Nobel Museum. He has acted as Scientific Secretary to the Nobel Committee for Physics since 1990 .

46 - List of the 75+ physicists (throughout all of human history) deemed worthy of inclusion by readers of the Yahoo! Directory (as of April 2009 ); Chadwick is ranked 20th in the popularity of physicists listed, behind such living ones as Michio Kaku & Hawking, and major Nobel Laureates Einstein, Rutherford, and Bohr.
The other 18 Manhattan Project Nobel Laureates do not appear on that Yahoo list.

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BOOKS on:

MACKENZIE DAVIDSON Medal
Some Applications of Nuclear Physics to Medicine, by W.V. Mayneord (British Institute of Radiology, 1950)

Chain Reaction Medal:
Atomic Rivals, by Bertrand Goldschmidt (Rutgers, 1990)
Scientists in Power, by Spencer R. Weart (Harvard, 1979): mostly on Joliot, Halban, & Kowarski
40 Jahre Kernspaltung. Eine Einfhrung in die Originalliteratur , by Horst Wolfforth (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1979)

MELCHETT Medal:
Alfred Mond, First Lord Melchett, by Hector Bolitho (Martin Secker, 1933)
Industry and Politics, by Sir Alfred Mond (Macmillan, 1927)
Imperial Economic Unity, by Sir Alfred Mond (G.G. Harrap, 1930)
The Institute of Fuel: The First Fifty Years, by Roy Hayman (The Institute of Fuel, 1977)
The Mond Legacy: A Family Saga, by Jean Goodman (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982)
Reports of the Experts, Submitted to the Joint Palestine Survey Commission, to Commissioners: The Right Honorable Lord Melchett, P.C. LL.D., 3 others (Daniels Printing, October 1, 1928)
Thy Neighbor, by [2nd] Lord Melchett [son of Alfred Mond] (H.C. Kinsey & Co., 1937)
Why the Crisis, by [2nd] Lord Melchett [son of Alfred Mond] (Camelot Press, 1931)

Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Anniversary Medal:
De leden van de akademie 1808-2000, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

GUTHRIE Medal:
125 Years of the Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, ed. by John L. Lewis, OBE, FInstP (Taylor & Francis, 1999)
Magnetism and Electricity, by Fred. Guthrie (Collins Advanced Science Series) inscribed 1921 by Francis Peacock, Montreal 1921
The Neutron and its Applications, 1982, ed. by P. Schofield (The Institute of Physics, 1983)