Talk:Howard N. Potts Medal

Initial creation and link maintenance

• Article created with 99 entries
• Medal is now defunct (see Franklin Institute)
• Layout tidied up and initial set of redlinks checked
• Twelve (12) redlinks turned blue by creating redirects
• 47 redlinks remain, with 52 blue links
• All blue links clicked to check correct person has been linked (will list errors below)

Other thoughts: tidying on layout still needed, possible a table is better. Any table would need to list "section" of award (e.g. Physics, Engineering, etc). And also the year, as several years have multiple awards. Need more background to the award, including who Howard N. Potts is, how much money (if any) is awarded with the prize, when the award was founded, when and why it ended, and any more details out there. Carcharoth (talk) 09:43, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Errors with blue links

Wrong links:

• Ulric Dahlgren is the wrong one (dates are wrong)
• Richard B. Moore seems to be the wrong one
• William C. Taylor is the wrong one

Successful disambiguation:

• John A. Anderson disambiguated to John August Anderson
• William Cochran disambiguated to William Cochran (physicist)

Failed disambiguation:

• Alexander Gray is a disambiguation page, with no relevant entry

Figures above (47 redlinks remain, with 52 blue links) adjusted accordingly:

• 47 redlinks
• 48 correct blue links
• 3 incorrect blue links
• 1 failed disambiguation link

Next step is to turn the incorrect links red, and/or create articles and disambiguate as needed. Carcharoth (talk) 10:08, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Sources for articles

• The Ulric Dahlgren mentioned here is the professor of biology at Princeton University. Ulric Dahlgren (1870-1946): Selected Papers.
• The Richard B. Moore mentioned here is the dean of science at Purdue University and one-time chief chemist of the US Bureau of Mines, Richard Bishop Moore (1871-1931): obituary on this page.
• The William C. Taylor mentioned here is the US glass scientist William C. Taylor (1886-1958): work described in Corning Glass Works Trademarks Pyrex.
• The Alexander Gray mentioned here is the professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, Alexander Gray (1882-1921): Cornell announcing his Potts Medal, and his obituary.

All four blue-links-that-should-be-redlinks now dabbed to redlinks based on the above, Carcharoth (talk) 12:34, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Here's a bit on William Nelson Goodwin, Jr., who is not the same as the American judge William Nelson Goodwin, but was an engineer at Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation. He invented one of the first photo-electric exposure meters in 1932 as well as what became known as the Weston film speed ratings in the 1930s for measuring film speeds, a pre-cursor to the ASA system. He held various patents on electrical instruments, exposure meters, photo cells, etc. Various articles in journals. Often abbreviated to W.N. Goodwin,(Jr.). --88.77.221.103 (talk) 19:10, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Updated link numbers

• 51 redlinks (including disambiguated one)
• 48 blue links (all verified as correct)

All 51 redlinks listed below to aid tracking. Carcharoth (talk) 12:36, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Redlinks list

List of redlinks to fill in and track when articles created.

• 1912 - William A. Bone (Chemistry)
• 1913 - James A. Bizzell (Earth Science)
• 1913 - T. L. Lyon (Earth Science)
• 1916 - William S. Murray (Unknown)
• 1917 - Ulric Dahlgren (Life Science)
• 1918 - Alexander Gray (Engineering)
• 1918 - Louis Vessot King (Engineering)
• 1919 - Reynold Janney (Engineering)
• 1919 - Clarence P. Landreth (Chemistry)
• 1919 - Harvey D. Williams (Engineering)
• 1920 - Wendell Addison Barker (Invention)
• 1920 - Edward P. Bullard, Jr. (Engineering)
• 1921 - Alfred O. Tate (Engineering)
• 1922 - Ernest G. Coker (Physics)
• 1922 - Charles R. Downs (Chemistry)
• 1922 - Richard B. Moore (Chemistry)
• 1922 - J. M. Weiss (Chemistry)
• 1924 - William Gaertner (Engineering)
• 1926 - Howard W. Matheson (Chemistry)
• 1927 - George E. Beggs (Physics)
• 1927 - Marion Eppley (Engineering)
• 1928 - Eugene C. Sullivan (Chemistry)
• 1928 - William C. Taylor (Chemistry)
• 1928 - Oscar G. Thurow (Engineering)
• 1931 - Benno Strauss (Engineering)
• 1934 - Ernst Georg Fischer (Engineering)
• 1937 - John Clyde Hostetter (Engineering)
• 1938 - Lars Olai Grondahl (Engineering)
• 1939 - Newcomb K. Chaney (Engineering)
• 1939 - H. Jermain Creighton (Engineering)
• 1942 - Harcourt Colborne Drake (Engineering)
• 1943 - Don Francisco Ballen (Life Science)
• 1943 - Paul Renno Heyl (Physics)
• 1948 - Clarence A. Lovell (Engineering)
• 1948 - David Bigelow Parkinson (Engineering)
• 1949 - Clinton Richards Hanna (Engineering)
• 1951 - Basil A. Adams (Engineering)
• 1951 - Clifford Foust (Physics)
• 1951 - Eric Leighton Holmes (Chemistry)
• 1958 - William Nelson Goodwin, Jr. (Engineering)
• 1958 - Emanuel Rosenberg (Engineering)
• 1959 - George W. Morey (Engineering)
• 1962 - Wilbur H. Goss (Engineering)
• 1966 - Robert Kunin (Chemistry)
• 1975 - LeGrand G. Van Uitert (Engineering)
• 1976 - Paul W. Morgan (Engineering)
• 1980 - Stanley G. Mason (Physics)
• 1982 - Charles G. Overberger (Chemistry)
• 1983 - George G. Guilbault (Life Science)
• 1988 - Dudley Dean Fuller (Engineering)
• 1991 - Richard E. Morley (Computer and Cognitive Science)

List consists of 51 redlinks as of 12:38, 1 August 2009 (UTC), Carcharoth (talk)

• Stanley G. Mason (1980) is out-googled heavily by another Stanley Mason, who apparently invented the squeezable ketchup bottle. But here's a tribute from the National Academy of Engineering which could certainly form the basis for an article: [1] --Stormie (talk) 01:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

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