SCIENTIFIC LIAISON IN U.S.
DR. ARMSTRONG APPOINTED “The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON. May 21. Dr V. Armstrong, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, has been appointed scientific liaison officer in America for the department. and expects to leave New Zealand during July. The extensive scientific research experience of the American federal organisations, the universities, and the industrial research laboratories will be studied ’ Armstiong. At his office in Washington he will be. closely associated with the scientific officers of Britain. Australia, and Canada tn 1946 Dr. Armstrong was appointed fuel technologist in the department, to investigate coal wastage in .Zealand—estimated at 150,000 to jOO.OOO tons a year. During the war Dr. Armstrong left the department tc manage the Ford Motor Comoanv’s munitions plant for filling 2-inch and 3-inch mortar bombs, the only plant of its kind in New Zealand. D r - Armstrong took his doctorate at tbe Imperial College of Science and Technology under Sir Alfred Egerton secretary of the Royal Society. Fuel technology was his major subject, and chemical engineering his minor subject.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25810, 23 May 1949, Page 6
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