SIDEY MEDAL
SECOND AWARD TO SIR LEONARD HILL I Per Press A*-so**ialion| WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. The second award of the T. K. Sidey summertime medal and prize has been made by the Royal Society of New Zealand to Sir Leonard Hill, noted English physiologist. The award, the prize of which is £lOO, is made for the most valuable contrition or contributions to human knowledge by research in the study of light, visible ancl invisible and other solar radiations in relation to human welfare. The first award was made •n 1933 to Lord Rutherford, of Nelson. Sir Leonard Hill has been well known for his philosophical researches fnr over 40 years. He began about 1910 to devote attention to the effects of heat rays on the condition of the air of inhabited rooms. Since then, at various times, he has published results of his experiments on the influence of light waves and ultra violet rays on the circulation in the capillary blood vessels and on the effect of infra red rays in causing congestion of nasal mucosa by reflex from the skin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 8
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