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:
“Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
Use them after your own honor and dignity—the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)