Other Citations, Honours and Awards
- Bell received numerous other awards and honorary degrees during his life. Among them were:
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- Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) from Illinois College in recognition for his work for the deaf. Note that this may be an erroneous item, as the College's website only lists a single degree to Bell ––his LL.D in 1896. ;
- Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D.) from Amherst College;
- Bell additionally received the Karl Koenig von Württemberg gold medal;
- At the age of eighteen, Bell was nominated for membership in the scholarly London Philological Society, by linguist and mathematician Alexander Ellis, on the basis of a study Bell had written on overtones. Ellis also lent him a work by German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, with Bell's incorrect translation of that work becoming the basis of his enduring research into transmitting speech telephonically (1865);
- Bell was also nominated as a Resident Member of the Boston Society of Natural History (1876).
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