NEW ZEALANDER CHOSEN.
NUFFIELD FELLOWSHIP. (From Our Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Sunday. Advice has been received that Dr. R. R. Niiunto, son of Mr. R. D. Ninimo, of Dunedin, has been elected to the first Nuffield Fellowship, established by Lord Nuffield's munificent donation to Birmingham University last year. Dr. Nimmo will work under the direction of Professor M. L. E. Oliphant, head of the department of physics. Dr. Ninimo is an old boy of the Otago Boys' High School. He studied at the Otago University and there gained the degree of M.Sc. Winning the 1851 exhibition science scholarship, he proceeded to Cambridge and was successful in gaining the degree of Ph.D. Later he lectured in the physics department of the Perth University, West Australia, and has now gone to England to undertake the Nuffield Fellowship.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 160, 10 July 1939, Page 11
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133NEW ZEALANDER CHOSEN. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 160, 10 July 1939, Page 11
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