Honor
Scheel and his wife Melida left an endowment which is used by the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (PGzB, Physical Society in Berlin), a regional association of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society), to yearly award the Karl-Scheel-Preis (Karl Scheel Prize), for outstanding scientific work.
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Famous quotes containing the word honor:
“We honor founders of these starving cities,
Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“But why should honor outlive honesty?
Let it all go.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)