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Philosophical Society

The Council of the Philosophical Society give notice that two General Meetings of the Society will be held at 4.45 p.m. on Monday, 12 May, and Monday, 14 July 2003, in the Henslow Room, Scientific Periodicals Library, Arts School, Bene't Street, for the purpose of electing Fellows.

WILLIAM HOPKINS PRIZE

The William Hopkins prize of the Cambridge Philosophical Society has been awarded to Professor Athene Donald, FRS, Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Professor Donald has made major advances in the structure and properties of polymerized materials, particularly for biological materials such as foodstuffs. Her earlier work showed the role of polymer entanglements in crazes in solid polymeric materials, resolving the nature of brittleness and ductility. She has developed the use of electron microscopy for liquid crystal systems, and used the environmental electron microscope, which operates at high vapour pressure, to sort out how the structure of foods behaves at the sub-micron level, making Cambridge an international centre for such work.

The Prize, which was founded in 1867, is awarded every three years for the best original work in mathematico-physical or mathematico-experimental science by a past or present member of the University. The first four prizewinners were Sir George Stokes, J. Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, and Lord Kelvin.

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