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[[underlined]] Award of the Hodgkins Medal
 to Dr. Luigi Giuseppe Jacchia, Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [[/underlined]]

Mr. Ripley introduced the following proposal to award the Hodgkins Medal and Prize to Dr. Luigi Jacchia.

The Hodgkins Medal, established in 1893 in memory of Thomas George Hodgkins who willed his fortune to the Smithsonian, is awarded "for important contributions to the knowledge of the physical environment bearing upon the welfare of man."  Recipients have been:

James Dewar, Royal Institution, London; University of Cambridge, England, 1899

J.J. Thompson, University of Cambridge, England, 1902

Sydney Chapman, University of Alaska, 1965

Marcel Nicolet, Centre National de Recherche de l'Espace, Brussels, Belgium, 1965

Joseph Kaplan, University of California at Berkeley, 1965

John Grahame Douglas Clark, University of Cambridge, England, 1967

Fritz W. Went, University of Nevada Desert Research Institute, 1967

Jule Gregory Charney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969

Arie Haagen-Smith, California Institute of Technology, 1969

Lewis Mumford, Edinburgh University, University of Rome, 1971

Walter Orr Roberts, Harvard University, 1973

E. Cuyler Hammond, 1976

Alexander Dalgarno, 1978

This nomination of Dr. Luigi Jacchia for the Hodgkins Medal was presented by the Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Dr. George Field.

Dr. Luigi Jacchia was born on June 4, 1910 at Trieste, Italy and received his Ph.D. from the University of Bologna, 1932.  Before coming to Cambridge, he was an astronomer at the University of Bologna Observatory and a Lecturer in the Course of Astronomy, University of Bologna.  Dr. Jacchia held a Fellowship of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning for Research, University of London Observatory.