Citation on the Award of the Leonard Medal of The Meteoritical Society

Abstract

In recent years The Meteoritical Society has attracted so many new members, including large numbers from Europe and Asia as well as North America, that on these occasions one sometimes hears the query, "Who was Leonard?" Indeed, that question was raised this evening by one of our vice presidents. It seems appropriate, therefore, to recall that it was Frederick C. Leonard who conceived the idea of forming the world's first international society devoted to the study of meteorites.

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