Kenneth Mees - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

  • Progress Medal, Royal Photographic Society, Great Britain.
  • Henry Draper Medal, National Academy of Sciences, 1936.
  • Franklin Medal.
  • Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, 1939.
  • Inductee, International Photography Hall of Fame, 1972.
  • The C.E.K. Mees Award is the highest research honor given by the Kodak company.
  • The C.E.K. Mees Medal, awarded in odd-numbered years by the Optical Society of America, is named after him and was endowed by the Mees family.
  • The University of Rochester's C.E.K. Mees Observatory is named after him.
  • The crater Mees on the Moon is named after him.
  • Mees Solar Observatory on the summit of Haleakala is named after him.

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