• Elliott Cresson (March 2, 1796 – February 20, 1854) was an American philanthropist who gave money to a number of causes after a brief career in the mercantile...
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    The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established...
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    The population of Cresson at the 2010 census was 1,711. The location was named in 1854 as a memorial to philanthropist Elliott Cresson. Railroads, beginning...
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    rescinded 8 days later. Warder Cresson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Quaker parents John Elliott Cresson (1773–1814) and Mary Warder (1776-1863)...
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    Society of the Pacific (1962) Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1962) Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (physics, 1963) Jackson-Gwilt Medal...
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    American people. In 1928, Ford was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. In 1928, Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the...
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    Americans 1967, appeared as himself in the film In Like Flint 1972, Elliott Cresson Medal 1972, Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement...
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    associate professor in 1934 (staying there until 1960). He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1936. During World War II, Van de Graaff was director of the...
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    Marie Curie (1903): 185  Matteucci Medal, with Marie Curie (1904) Elliott Cresson Medal (1909) awarded posthumously during Marie Curie's award ceremony...
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    States (AMSUS). In 1973 Stapp was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. In 1979 Stapp was inducted into the International Space Hall...
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    1896: Matteucci Medal of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze 1897: Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute 1900: Barnard Medal for Meritorious...
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    Pierre) Matteucci Medal (1904, with Pierre) Actonian Prize (1907) Elliott Cresson Medal (1909) Legion of Honour (1909, rejected) Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
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  • fluorides of xenon: XeF2, XeF4, and XeF6. In 1968 he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal. In 1973, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (United Kingdom)...
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    work with the 1922 IEEE Medal of Honor, the 1923 Franklin Institute Elliott Cresson Medal and the 1946 American Institute of Electrical Engineers Edison...
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    thermionics, erosion of metals, and contact physics. He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1931. A former fighter pilot in World War I, Germer subsequently...
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    accelerator, thus paving the way for many important discoveries.: 64–65  Elliott Cresson Medal (1961) Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1962) Golden...
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    Recognized as one of the fathers of hydroelectric power, he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal during his lifetime and is an inductee of the National Inventors...
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    Bavaria, granted him a PhD, and he was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1912. He was one of the founders of the American Institute...
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    1 GeV beam. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Lawrence received the Elliott Cresson Medal and the Hughes Medal in 1937, the Comstock Prize in Physics in...
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    Elected Honorary Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society in 1949 Elliott Cresson Medal in 1962 Inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame...
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    currently in the public domain. Jenkins was awarded the prestigious Elliott Cresson Gold Medal for scientific achievement in 1897 and the Scott Medal in...
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    Sulzer Linde MAN AG Krupp Known for Diesel engine Diesel fuel Spouse Martha Flasche ​ (m. 1883)​ Children 3 Awards Elliott Cresson Medal (1901) Signature...
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  • Cresson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Elliott Cresson (1796 – 1854), American philanthropist Warder Cresson (1798 – 1860), later...
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    They include: Grand Officer of the Order of St. Sava (Serbia, 1892) Elliott Cresson Medal (Franklin Institute, USA, 1894) Grand Cross of the Order of Prince...
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    Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1991: The Elliott Cresson Medal – The Franklin Institute 1992: Honorary Doctor of Science, Technion...
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  • National Medal of Science (1970) Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1972) Elliott Cresson Medal (1973) Fellow of the Royal Society Bruce Medal (1975) Golden...
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    Humphry Davy, by the Royal Society of London in 1907. He also won the Elliott Cresson Medal, awarded by the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, in 1912,...
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    of the American Philosophical Society. In 1910 he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute. Wiley was born on October 18, 1844...
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    Career Service Award from the National Civil Service League, 1958. Elliott Cresson Medal from The Franklin Institute, 1960. Langley Gold Medal from the...
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    Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1919), the Elliott Cresson Medal (1932) from the Franklin Institute, the Gold Medal from Bakhuys...
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