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title: "Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal"
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The Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal, named after radio pioneer Valdemar Poulsen, was awarded each year for outstanding research in the field of radio techniques and related fields by the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.  The award was presented on November 23, the anniversary of Poulsen's birth.  The award was discontinued in 1993.


== Recipients ==
1939 Valdemar Poulsen
1946 Robert Watson-Watt
1947 Ernst Alexanderson
1948 Edward Victor Appleton
1953 Balthasar van der Pol
1956 Harald T. Friis
1958 Hidetsugu Yagi
1960 Charles P. Ginsburg
1963 John R. Pierce
1969 Jay Wright Forrester
1973 J. B. Gunn
1976 Andrew Bobeck


== References ==