A WW1 RAF / R.E.T.V.F. Group of O.B.E. (Mil 2nd Type), War M...

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£360

A WW1 RAF / R.E.T.V.F. Group of O.B.E. (Mil 2nd Type), War Medal, (missing Victory Medal), Geo. V Silver Jubilee medal, Geo. VI Coronation Medal, George V Territorial Decoration, together with the full corresponding set of miniature medals, swing mounted for wearing, FIVE boxed medallions awarded for contributions to science including The silver-gilt Stanley Melville Medel of Society of Radiographers (engraved), Mackenzie-Davidson Medal 1922 (named), Antoine Beclere medal, Silvanus Thompson Medal 1935 (named), Pierre-et-Marie Curie medal, (named), all large medals and medallions unmounted and with original issue/presentation boxes. George William Clarkson Kaye (8 April 1880 – 16 April 1941) was an English physicist best known as one of the authors, together with Thomas Laby, of the authoritative scientific reference work Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants and Some Mathematical Functions, first published in 1911 and better known as Kaye and Laby. He was a driving force behind the formation and early years of the ‘International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee’ (IXRPC), the world's first international radiological protection body, created in 1928. Kaye was born in Honley in West Yorkshire, and attended Huddersfield Technical School. He was made 2nd lieutenant in the Electrical Engineers (volunteer corps) on 5 December 1903, and lieutenant-colonel in 1908. Kaye studied at University College, Liverpool and the Royal College of Science, gaining a Bachelor of Science first class degree in experimental physics in 1903. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge from 1905. He gained his Bachelor of Arts (advanced studies) on 18 June 1908. Major G.W.C. Kaye, O.B.E. T.D. D.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., R.A.F. / Royal Engineers Territorial Volunteers, London Battalion, No.6 Signal Company, R.A.F. Graduation List 5th Sep 1918, Kite Balloon Officer, Inter-Services X-Ray Advisory Committee Army Lists 1939, The War List of The University of Cambridge, Trinity College 1921, Maj G.W.C. Kaye (1905), R.A.F. (Aircraft Production Dept.).