DISPUTE SETTLED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 81, 17 January 1936, Page 6

DISPUTE SETTLED.

APPARATUS FOR MOSCOW.

LONDON, January 1. Apparatus used by Professor Kapitza the brilliant Russian physicist, at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, is to be transferred to Moscow. This apparatus, for the production of intense magnetic fields, will be erected by experts from Cambridge who will go to Moscow to work for it while in the Institute of Physical Problems. The sale of the costly equipment to the Soviet Government was agreed to by Cambridge University following a report of the Council of the Senate. This decision ends a discussion over the Soviet's recall to Russia of Professor Kapitza, while he was at work on experiments at Cambridge. The laboratory being built for Dr. Kapitza in Moscow, will be four times as larcre as the ono he left at Cambridge. To equip it, the Russian Government wanted the plant winch he left in England, so that his work might be continued where it had been left off At the University discussion, Lord Rutherford, who was Professor Kapitza,'s chief and sponsor, and who Kapitza described as "his father in science " gave full information as to the position. Now the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has agreed that Cambridge University shall buy the apparatus supplied by the British Government in order to resell it to the Soviet. The terms of purchase are to be arranged bv the financial board of the senate, and part of the money is to be spent 'on the installation of a large electro-magnetic plant, to produce temperatures within one-thousandth degree of absolute zero, the temperature at which the particles in an atom stop moving.