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:
“I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn’t know what the thing was. It’s the honor what I loved.”
—Elizabeth Cotten (1892–1987)
“Give truth, and your gift will be paid in kind,
And honor will honor meet;”
—Madeline Bridges (fl. C. 1840)
“Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)