Historical Objects / Medals

Collection of Tyler Yates

Erik Edlund

Engraver:
Lea Ahlborn
Year:
1891
Country:
Sweden
Diameter:
31 mm
Obverse:
Erik Edlund facing left.
ER. EDLUND PHYS. PROF. R. АС. SC. SUEC. N. 1819 О. 1888
LEA AHLBORN
Reverse:
A woman stands in a hooded robe. In her right hand is a key, in the left hand, a burning torch. Beside her are a galvanometer and a some kind of electric appliance.
SECRETA NATURÆ RECLUDIT ET ILLUSTRAT.
SOCIO SCRUTATORI RERUM NATURALIUM CELEBERRIMO R. ACAD. SCIENT. SUEC. MDCCCXCI.
L.A.
Numismatiska meddelanden, Volume 17, Part 1 p. 206
Olsen p. 314

This medal was commissioned by the Swedish Academy of Sciences to commemorate Erik Edlund, a physicist who mainly studied electricity.