 | Alexander Agassiz - 1913 - 530 pages
...in London he was pleasantly surprised to hear that he had been elected, by a very handsome majority, one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences. This is generally considered the greatest honor the scientific world has to bestow, an honor also conferred... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 pages
...brought him election to the Royal Academy of London and their Copley gold medal, an appointment as one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences, and medals and diplomas from other societies in St. Petersburg, Madrid, Edinburgh, Padua, and Turin. As... | |
 | Mickey S. Eisenberg - 1997 - 326 pages
...He was invited to appear before Napoleon, who presented him with an annual pension, and was elected one of the eight "foreign associates" of the French Academy of Sciences. A similar honor was bestowed on Benjamin Franklin. The principles behind this chemical battery are... | |
 | 1899 - 644 pages
...credited also with having discovered the metals thalium, caesium, and rubidium. In 1883 he was elected one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences. THE PLAGUE. THE consternation in Europe caused by the continued spread of the plague has not abated.... | |
 | 1874 - 424 pages
...conferred upon him the honorary degree of DCL He was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and in 1864 he was nominated one of the eight Foreign Associates of the French Acadifmie des Sciences. <£ItrtritaI n |oninals. Comptet RendtuJJebdomadaires des Stances de VAcadtmie... | |
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In 1 855 he was nominated one of the eight Foreign Associates of the French Academy of Sciences, and was a member of almost every Philosophical or Literary Society of Europe. 
