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Nobel Medal, Prize for Physics
- artist:
- Erik Lindberg
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Medal, the Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to Joseph John Thomson, 1906. Gold; 66mm diameter, 5mm ht, in red leather gilt trim case 13.5x13.5x2.2cm. Weight 205.97g. obverse: relief profile of Alfred Nobel, designed and signed by Erik Lindberg 1902. reverse: muses of nature and science, plaque to J.J. Thomson MCMVI [1906]. The prize was awarded by the Nobel Institute, Stockholm "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"
Details
- Category:
- Coins, Medals & Tokens
- Object Number:
- 2003-216
- Materials:
- gold
- Measurements:
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height/diameter: 5 mm x x , 66 mm,
- type:
- medal
- credit:
- Thomson, David