1944/03/01 · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.1098/rspa.1944.0001
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Abstract Before proceeding to the presentation of the Medals awarded for this year, it is fitting that, in accordance with custom, we should briefly recall the lives and the achievements of those whom death has removed from our Fellowship and our Foreign Membership since the last Anniversary Meeting of the Society. War conditions have delayed till now the receipt in this country of news of the death, two years ago, of Henri Leon Lebesgue (1875-1941). Lebesgue initiated a new concept of the integral in his work on the theory of functions of a real variable, which has had a revolutionary effect in various branches of mathematical analysis. At one time Professor of Mathematics in the University of Poitiers, he spent all his later life as Professor of Mathematics in the University of Paris. He was elected a Foreign Member in 1934. Edgar Johnson Allen (1866-1942) will long be remembered for his outstanding services to marine biology. For 42 years he was Director of the Marine Biological Association’s Laboratory at Plymouth, and the steady growth of this institution, through years of adversity to its present leading position, is mainly due to his wise guidance and life-long devotion.