Personalia

Foreign scholarly journals report the deaths of a number of outstanding scientists. In 1918 the following died: Georg Cantor, professor of mathematics at the University of Halle; B. Tollens, professor of agronomic chemistry at the University of Göttingen; Pietro Blaserna, professor of physics at the University of Rome; Johann Puluj, former professor of electrical engineering at the German Higher Technical School in Prague; Max Weinstein, professor at the University of Berlin; T. Thiele, professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg; F. Braun, professor of physics at the University of Strasbourg (in America); R. Marc, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Jena (fallen in the war); Dr. Max Ikle, well-known translator and contributor to Phys. ZS; R. Assmann, professor of meteorology at Giessen; B. W. Feddersen, discoverer of electric oscillations; F. P. Treadwell, professor of analytical chemistry at the Higher Technical School in Zurich; P. L. Sylow, professor of mathematics at the University of Christiania; H. Du Bois, professor of physics at Utrecht. In 1919 the following died: H. Th. Simon, professor of applied electricity at Göttingen; E. Ch. Pickering, professor of astronomy and director of the Harvard University Observatory; William Crookes; Baron R. v. Eötvös, professor of physics at the University of Budapest; L. Weber, professor of physics, meteorology, and geomagnetism at the University of Kiel; K. Th. Reye, former professor at the University of Strasbourg; Lord Rayleigh, president of the Royal Society; E. Fischer, professor of chemistry at the University of Berlin; L. Arons, former privat-docent of the University of Berlin; Annibale Ricco, professor of astrophysics at Catania and director of the observatory on Etna; Alfred Werner, professor of chemistry at the University of Zurich; E. Lippmann, professor of chemistry at the University of Vienna; N. Lokyer, the well-known spectroscopist.

Among the distinctions awarded to scientists, the following should be noted first of all:

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1917 to Charles Glover Barcla and in 1918 to Max Planck; in 1919 to J. Stark; the Prize in Chemistry for 1919 was awarded to F. Haber.

J. J. Thomson was appointed president of Trinity College (1918). E. Rutherford was appointed Cavendish professor at the University of Cambridge (1919); F. Soddy—professor of chemistry at Oxford (1919); M. Laue was appointed professor at the University of Berlin (1919); M. Born—professor at the University of Frankfurt (1919); P. P. Koch was appointed professor of experimental physics at the University of Hamburg; D. Berthelot was elected a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences; W. H. Keesom was appointed professor of physics and physical chemistry at the Higher Veterinary School in Utrecht; H. Barkhausen was appointed professor of weak-current engineering and director of the Institute at the Dresden Polytechnic; Manne Siegbahn was appointed professor of physics at the University of Lund; P. I. Walden was appointed ordinary professor of chemistry in Rostock (1919); V. M. Fischer was appointed ordinary professor of chemistry in Posen (1919); I. S. Plotnikov took the position of head of the photochemical laboratory of the Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilin Fabrication in Berlin; A. Angerer, formerly a staff member of the Main Chamber of Weights and Measures, was enrolled as a privat-docent of the Higher Technical School in Karlsruhe.

In Russia

Elected: Professor of the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute A. F. Ioffe as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Deceased: N. G. Egorov, Director of the Chamber of Measures and Weights, and V. A. Rykachev, member of the Academy of Sciences, former Director of the Main Physical Observatory.