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AWARDS OF ROYAL MEDALS. British Official Wireless (Received November 7, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, November 6. The King has approved the award of two royal medals of the Royal Society to Professor G. I. Taylor for mathematical work, physics, geophysics and dynamics, and to Dr P. P. Laidlaw for work on disease due to viruses including that on the cause and prevention of distemper in dogs. Many of Professor Taylor’s experiments have been applied to practical engineering. He for many years worked on experimental aeronautics and took an air pilot’s eertificate in 1915. Dr Laidlaw Is one of the three scientists who tracked the virus of the influenza germ. It is so small that it can pass through a porcelain filter. He is pathologist to the Medical Research Council.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19641, 8 November 1933, Page 7
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