Talk:Royal Astronomical Society
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Well done, Rob! I've made a few changes to round out the entry a little further and to reflect the work of the RAS in the geophysical sciences. I've removed a slight inaccuracy in the previous version -- the Society's rules for award of medals are rather more complicated than "one medal for astronomy; one medal for geophysics", as implied there, but it certainly isn't worth going into the arcane details in a Wikipedia entry! It might be worth mentioning one or two of the geophysical eminences who have received the Gold Medal (Harold Jeffreys, for sure; Sidney Chapman must surely have received one, too). I'll come back to that later.
I've also inserted entries for one or two of the stubs that this edit has developed.
Russ Evans 26/12/03