Gaston Plante Medal to be awarded June 1937

The first award of the Gaston Plante Medal, recently established by the Societe Francaise des Electriciens, is to be made in June 1937. As announced previously in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (February 1936 issue, page 213), the award will consist of a silver-gilt medal accompanied by a sum in cash of 4,000 francs. The award will be made triennially to a person, regardless of nationality, who makes an important contribution in the field of electric storage batteries, voltaic cells, or electrochemistry in general.