...he soon became interested in electrical engineering, and was led to many important investigations. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1878, and in 1890 was awarded by it a royal medal for researches in electricity and magnetism. He was...

...1878 he married the eldest daughter of Mr. Justice Gale, of Montreal; but he had no children. In 1859 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London; in 1882 he became a charter member of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1884 he was its president. He...

...has remained a classic. Morgagni became known wherever the art of medicine was known and practiced. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1724; of the French Academy of Science in 1731 ; of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg in 1735;...

...visited Europe and America several times to deliver lectures with demonstrations on his own discoveries. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1920, General President of the Indian Science Congress in 1927, Corresponding Member of the Vienna...

...Experiments and Observations on Electricity. This work brought him international recognition, and in 1756 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In his scientific work Franklin combined theoretical originality with practical applications, as in the...

...life was one protracted campaign, — and that was a war of posts, and not a succession of brillimit charges. He prized the recognition of academies and...that he received from the Royal Society of London the Ruraford, Copley, and Royal medals ; that his simple life was made independent by a pension of £300,...