Award
date: label: date made
content: 1887
notes: label: Description
content: Leo Baekeland (1863-1944) earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Ghent when he was just 21 years old. A few years later, he won a competition open to recent graduates from Belgian universities. This silver frond is part of his prize. The inscriptions on the stem read “HOMME DE LA VILLE DE GAND” and “LEO BAEKELAND” and “PREMIER EN SCIENCES CHIMIQUES” and “COURS DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Bakelite
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Karraker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0034.33g
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0034.33g
label: accession number
content: 1982.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hommage de la ville de Gand
label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 cm x 6.5 cm; 13 in x 2 9/16 in