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Auction 172  11 Mar 2020
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Lot 488

Estimate: 30 GBP
Price realized: 20 GBP
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A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, STONEY MEMORIAL Medal, a matt silver award medal for Anatomy by West & Son, bust of Richard Stoney left, rev. legend, un-named, 40mm. Extremely fine £30-£40

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Provenance: Baldwin Auction 37, 5 May 2004, lot 1740 (part).

Dr George Johnstone Stoney, FRS (1826-1911) who introduced the term 'electron' to science, was awarded the first Boyle Medal in 1899 to in recognition of his many important contributions to science, particularly in molecular physics and the kinetic theory of gases
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