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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1929, Page 5

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THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S AWARDS. SERVICES TO SCIENCE RECOGNISED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December ,1. A well-known German scientist, Professor Max,Planck, has been presented by the Royal Society with the Coplay Medal, which is the - highest honour tnat the Society can confer. Professor Planck, thirty years ago, discovered the quantum theory, which Sir Ernest Rutherford, described, as “having the effect of n t only making a veritable revolution in physics, but of profoundly changing our methods of thought and concepts of philosophy.”

Professor Planck is also responsible for a new invention which, in Sir Olliver Lodge’s view, will have an important effect upon the future development of X-rays and l-ght generally. The Society has also awarded Royal Medals to Professor Littlewood and i,. t uir, the Davy Medal to Professor G. N. Lewis, and the Hughes Medal to Professor Hans Geiger.

FLOODS IN ENGLAND. MIDLANDS AND SOUTH-EAST SUFFER. / RUGBY, Nov. 30. The upner reaches of the Thames are in, many places iu a state of flood, and the river is steadily rising.

During the past forty-eight hours there has been a rise of sixteen inches near Windsor. Serious floods have developed in the Midlands, and wide areas are uiiuor water.

In South-east England the flood has so altered the countryside, \ as viewed from the air, that the pilot of an air-liner that arrived yesterday from Cologne, failed to pick up familiar marks, and had ,to steer a compass course to Croydon. In London, which has suffered much le c s severely than other parts of the country, the rainfall registered dnrjnrr November was over o indies. The normal November rainfall is 2.22 in.