MELBOURNE SCIENTIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1930, Page 22

MELBOURNE SCIENTIST.

RETURNING FROM EUROPE.

CO-OPERATION IN EMPIRE

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Professor T. H. Laby, of Melbourne University, who left Melbourne last February on a visit to England and the Continent, arrived at Wellington by the Rangitiki from Southampton to-day. Professor Laby's chief mission was to familiarise himself with recent progress in physical science and to arrange for publication of the research work carried out at Melbourne University. One impression gained by Professor Laby during his stay in England was that there was a possibility of a considerably greater co-operation in scientific research Carried on in different parts of the Empire. He said ho saw a good deal of the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge, which he considered was the greatest research laboratory in the world. The institution was in charge of Sir Ernest Rutherford. Much work was being done there on the constitution of the atom, and the structure of the nucleus was being attacked from every angle. Sir Ernest Rutherford, Professor Laby said, was retiring from the position of president of the Royal Society and taking over the chairmanship of committees of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.