MECHAELIS PRIZE
Award To Mr G. A. M. King
Mr G. A. M. King, superintendent of the Geophysical Observatory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Christchurch, has been awarded the Mechaelis Prize of Otago University. It is awarded alternately for astronomy and physics. The University of Canterbury last week announced that Mr King would receive the degree of doctor of science at the graduation ceremony in May. Both awards are for Mr King’s research on physics of the ionosphere, principally the F region, 120 to 250 miles up. He has also studied changes in the ionosphere during auroras. Mr King was born in Christchurch, attended Mount Albert Grammar School, and graduated B.Sc. at Auckland University. He joined the D.S.I.R. in 1948 and has been principally employed at the Geophysical Observatory in Christchurch. He made a private study tour to Europe in 1955, worked at Cape Hallett in the Antarctic in 1958, and spent a year at the National Bureau of Standards at Boulder, Colorado, in 1959.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31317, 13 March 1967, Page 11
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