Radiation Protection Medal

At the closing of the Tenth International Congress of Radiology at Montreal in September, the first Radiation Protection Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science was presented jointly to K. Z. Morgan, director of the Health Physics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Walter Binks, director of the Radiological Protection Service of the (British) Ministry of Health and Medical Research Council. The medal has been established to recognize valuable contributions to the work of international radiation protection which have been made during the ten‐year period preceding the award.