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:
“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)
“It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 20:3.
“He thought, the madman, it was an honor to be feared.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)