Reverse of 1935 Nobel Medal

Design shows a goddess resembling Isis, emerging from the clouds
and holding in her arms a cornucopia. The veil which covers her cold
and austere face is held up by the Genius of Science.

The text INVENTAS VITAM IUVAT EXCOLUISSE PER ARTES
is Latin for

"A PLEASURE TO ENNOBLE THE LIFE OF MAN WITH THE HELP OF THE ARTS AND INVENTIONS," a revision of a line from Virgil's Aeneid, 6th song, verse 663.

(Word for word: "inventions enhance life which is beautified through art.")

The text REG. ACAD. SCIENT SUEC stands for "The Royal Swedish Academy of Science".

Medal was designed by Erik Lindberg, 1902 (his name is under SCIENTA, just above "4 o'clock") .

From http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/medal.html

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Erik Lindberg (…1873-1966) … the son of Adolf Lindberg who was a famous sculptor. Erik Lindberg entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Stockholm in 1893 and obtained a scholarship enabling him to spent some years in Paris where he met Roty and Chaplain (1899-1901). In 1901 Lindberg was entrusted with the task of creating the Nobel medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. In 1915 he received a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. His works are to be found in the collection of the Stockholm Museum.

From http://www.finemedals.com/erik_lindberg.htm

Nobel Prize basics

We have passed the centennial year of the Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award almost from its inception, and the first to aim to not discriminate on the basis of nationality; 2001 saw pertinent celebrations and related exhibits around the world. Already completed, or under construction, are Nobel museums in both Stockholm and Athens. In this 100 year period, 719 Prizes were awarded, 162 to physicists. The other categories are peace, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, and chemistry. Each Laureate receives a medal, a diploma, and, today, over $1 million if one person is the sole winner in a category; as many as three persons can split this money if, unlike Chadwick, it is decided to honor more than one person in a category. The results for each category are determined by a separate committee of five persons, subject to ratification by a relevant Swedish institution; in the case of physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, some 300 strong, have this final say.

As Dr. B. Feldman has pointed out, (in his comprehensive critical history, The Nobel Prize: a History of Genius, Controversey, and Prestige) the prestige of the Nobel Prize is in large measure due to its emphasis on science, which, after all, has accomplished so many dramatic results in the last 100 years. Since physics is the science which has had the most stupendous achievements in this period, the Physics Prizes have particularly brought fame to the Nobel institution. Thus the Physics Prizes are the most highly regarded; the decisions as to who should become Literature laureates have received much more criticism by serious students of these issues.

Sources included in Archive:

Brown, Andrew, The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick (Oxford, 1997)

English, James, The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value (Harvard, 2005)

Feldman, Burton, The Nobel Prize: a History of Genius, Controversey, and Prestige (Arcade, 2000)

Marcou, Giorgio, Alfred Nobel: His life and works (Hellenic Nobel Museum, Athens, 2003)

ManadsJournalen, Alfred Nobel (Bonniers Specialtidningsforlag AB, 1998) color illus.

Nobel Foundation, Nobel Foundation Directory, published each year by Sturytreckeriet-AB, Stockholm
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Nobel Prize Annual, 1988- (various publishers)

Ohlmarks, Åke, Nobel-pristagarna (Stureforlaget Aktiebolag, 1969) # 746 of 999, inscr. to Agda Berglund

Royal Coin Cabinet, Nobel Medals (Stockholm, 2001)

Shalev, Baruch H., 100 Years of Nobel Prizes (Americas Group, 2002)

Other books included (about Chadwick and his milieu):

Atomic Heritage Foundation, Symposium on the Manhattan Project: Preliminary Proceedings -- . April 27, 2002 (also incl. is VHS tape of entire C-SPAN coverage)

Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society 22 (1976), including:
Massie, Harrie, & Feather, Norman, "James Chadwick," 66 pages

Brown, Anthony Cave, etc., ed. The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb (Dial Press, 1977), incl. Smyth, Henry DeWolf, Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, (Official U.S. Govt. report, 1945)

Bundy, McGeorge, Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years (Random . House, 1988)

Cathcart, Brian, The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)

Catterall, Mary, and Bewley, David, Fast Neutrons in the Treatment of Cancer (Academic Press, 1979)

Chadwick, James, (with E. Rutherford and C.D. Ellis) Radiations from Radioactive Substances (Cambridge, 1930)

------------------------, Radiativity and Radioactive Substances, 3rd. ed. (Pitman, 1931), inside page inscribed in pencil "A.H. Woodcock 1932". [Alfred H. Woodcock was a U.S. Navy and U. of Hawaii oceonographer whose career culminated in him being a recipient of the American .. Meteor ological .. Society's .. Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, see http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/ua902.028.htm .]

Clark, Ronald W., The Birth of the Bomb: the revealing history of the international race to develop the weapon that changed the world (Horizon, 1961)

Crawford, Elizabeth, The Nobel Population 1901-1937 (U.C. Berkeley, 1987)

Feldman, Anthony, and Ford, Peter, Scientists and Inventors (Facts on File, 1986)

Goldhaber, Maurice, “Reminisces of the Cavendish Lab in the 1930’s”, 16 March 1998 Physics Colloquium, U.C. Berkeley (VHS tape)

Gowing, Margaret, Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945 (Macmillan, 1965) the official history

Groueff, Stefane, The Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb (Little Brown, 1967)

Groves, Gen. Leslie, Now It Can Be Told (Harper, 1962)

Hendry, John, Cambridge Physics in the Thirties (Adam Hilger Ltd., 1984)

Nobel Foundation, Les Prix Nobel en 1935 (P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1937)

Pais, Abraham, Inward Bound: of matter and forces in the physical world (Clarendon, 1986)

Preston, Diana, Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Walker, 2005)

Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb ( Simon & Schuster, 1988)

Schofield, P.(Peter), The neutron and its applications, 1982 : plenary and invited papers from the conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the neutron held at Cambridge, 13-17 September 1982 (Institute of Physics, 1982)

Shamos, Morris H., Great Experiments in Physics (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1959)

Stocker, Mark, Golden Atoms: The Ernest Rutherford Medals (Canterbury U., 1999)

Szasz, Ferenc, British Scientists and the Manhattan Project (St. Martin's, 1992), w/ bookplate indicating it as a donation (to Keele University) from the library of U.K official Atomic Energy historian Margaret Gowing

Weinberg, Steven, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles (Scientific American Library, 1983)

Wilhelm, Peter, The Nobel Prize (Teknowledge, 1983)