{"product_id":"greece-republic-an-academy-of-athens-research-award-angel-balevski-1977-eu24829","title":"Greece, Republic. An Academy of Athens Research Award, Angel Balevski 1977","description":"\u003cp\u003eAwarded by the Academy of Athens, the highest research institute in Greece, featuring a 34 link collar each with green and black enamel, with center medallion presenting left facing bust of Athena, representing wisdom and intellectual progress, surrounded by green enameled laurels, reverse with a plain field and engraved and dedicated to Angel Balevski who was the recipient of the rare Soviet Lomonosov Gold Medal, measuring 51 mm (w) x 75 mm (h - inclusive of suspension), with collar a total length of 80 cm, very fine. Angel Balevski's other awards were sold by eMedals via lot number EU10683. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFootnote: Angel Balevski (March 4, 1910 - September 15, 1997) was a famous Bulgarian inventor, engineer, scientist, educator, public figure, politician, and university professor. He was born on March 4, 1910 in the town of Troyan, Bulgaria to Toncho Angelov Balevski and Penka Kaltcheva Balevska. When he was four and a half, his father passed away. He graduated from high school in Sofia in 1929, which was followed by his attending the German Higher Technical School in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1934, which started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer. He was an extraordinary professor at the State Polytechnics (1945), where he established and headed the Department of Mechanical Technology and Factory Organization, which was later transformed into the Department of Metal and Metal Technology at the Technical University. He was a professor from 1945 to 1968 and Director of the Institute of Metal and Metal Technology from 1967 to 1989. Other positions held by Balevski included: Corresponding Member (1952-1966) and Full member (Academician) of the Academy of Sciences (1967), Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technical Progress (1960-1961), Secretary of the Department of Technical Sciences, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1960-1968), Editor of the Magazine \"Technical Thought\" (1964-1973), Vice-President of the Scientific Union (1964-1989) and Rector of the Technical University (1966-1968). Balevski was President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1968-1987), the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy, located in Sofia, is autonomous and has a Society of Academicians, Correspondent Members and Foreign Members. It publishes and circulates different scientific works, encyclopedias, dictionaries and journals, and runs its own publishing house. He was also a Member of the National Assembly (1969-1989) and Member of the State Council of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1971-1989). He was also awarded the honourary title of People’s Scientist and received an Honourary Doctorate from the Technical University of Sofia. He was later a professor at numerous universities across Europe and elected Honourary and Foreign Member of the Academies and Research Societies in many countries. Balevski was Co-President of the International Academy of Science, Munich (1988-1997) and Chairman of the Bulgarian Pugwash Group and was a Member of the Pugwash Movement of Scientists for Peace (1971). The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955. The Manifesto was issued in London on July 9, 1955 by Bertrand Russell in the midst of the Cold War. It highlighted the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to seek peaceful resolutions to international conflict. The signatories included eleven pre-eminent intellectuals and scientists, including Albert Einstein, who signed it just days before his death on April 18, 1955. A few days after the release, philanthropist Cyrus S. Eaton offered to sponsor a conference, which was called for in the manifesto, to be held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Eaton's birthplace. As an inventor, Balevski was successful in designing a hot pressing machine for non-ferrous metals and developed an original method for cast iron production from Bulgarian raw materials in a rotating drum furnace. Together with Ivan Dimov, he developed a counter-pressure casting method of light alloy with high accuracy and high mechanical indicators, which was a pioneer in world foundry technology and was protected by over one hundred patent documents in Bulgaria and abroad. Balevski created a method of casting under pressure for light metal alloys in which, under the action of a pressure difference, the molten metal from a furnace, disposed in a hermetically sealed chamber, is displaced via a feed tube for molten metal and fills the cavity of a casting mold, disposed in another hermetically sealed chamber, wherein before the filling of the cavity of the casting mold with molten metal, the latter is subjected to a temperature and a metallurgical pre-treatment in two furnaces, which are then in succession brought in position of casting and, at the same time or later, the casting mold is brought to the desired temperature parameters, the process of casting is performed, then the cast body is removed from the casting mold and the cycle is repeated. The temperature of the casting mold, before and after its filling with molten metal, is regulated by controlling the powers of the cooling and the heating systems arranged within the casting mold. During the solidification of the cast body until its removal, there is regulated the deformation state of the system cast body mold by controlling the clearance and the force of seizing between the cast body and the walls of the casting mold. It was patented as Inv. No. 187\/1961 effective January 26, 1961. Author and co-author of seven monographs and academic textbooks of the collection \"Science, Man, Society\" (Selected reports, articles, speeches and statements 1985) and books of poems, anecdotes and aphorisms \"Concerns\" (1995), \"Balgariada\" (satire, 1996) and \"Moods\" (poetry, satire, 1997). He was a talented scientist and inventor, as well as a brilliant teacher, violinist and historian. He is remembered as a wise enlightener, humanist, patriot, as well as a gifted and eloquent speaker. Balevski was not only the recipient of the highest international awards for contributions to science and invention, he was an honourary foreign member of several academies and scientific societies in several countries (Hungary, the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Mongolia, Greece, Romania, Germany) and many international organizations. He received the award of the Körber AG of Hamburg, Germany in 1985 (he donated the bonus of 800,000 Deutschmarks to the state for development of metallurgy), received Honourary Doctorates from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1980 and the Technical University of Sofia in 1996, was named an Honourary Member of the \"Trojan End\" in 1995 and was a Board Member of the Paguozhkoto Movement of Scientists for Peace (Russell Einstein Manifesto) in 1971. Balevski married Laura Todorova Kamedulska in 1938 and the couple had two children together: a son and a daughter. In 2003, a book describing the exploits of Balevski was published by Ivan Pejkovski \"With Academician Angel Balevski - Jokingly and Seriously.\" was released. He died on September 15, 1997 in Sofia, Bulgaria. On Thursday, May 13, 2010, a statue to Balevski, the longtime chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), was dedicated in the courtyard of the Institute of Metal in Sofia, as he was the founder and first head of the institute that bears his name. The date chosen for the unveiling was the eve of the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture, May 24th, and the celebrations dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the scientist. 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