FELLOWSHIP FOB RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26671, 4 March 1952, Page 6

FELLOWSHIP FOB RESEARCH

CANTERBURY COLLEGI X RAY WORK ELECTRODELESS TUB! CONSTRUCTED The tradition of research it beW expanded rapidly at Canterbury University College where the physics partment has been particularly gcu • in the last few years. Three students are now completing work w. doctorates in philosophy and twn awards of research fellowships by J" University of New Zealand will two more to' undertake similar The professorial staff of the cwU believes that overseas experienee w beneficial but they are gratified tna facilities 'are improving for aavancre research to be done in Christchurco a desired. X-ray research, under the ffi* -6 . 1 : 4 of Professor F. C. Chalklih, Will “ done by both the new fellows. Mr H. R. Moore, who come* tram Greymouth, will continue e x P ftr ®rL. h with an electrodeless X-ray tube » he has constructed. When Mr Mot took first-class honours in physicy » his master of science degree two ye ago, he wrote his thesis oti this cot struction. The device was invented France and few. if any, such tuDw have since been built. Mr Moot# - ceeded and made some injprovemc" in design. ; The advantage of an electrodeß* tube is that X-rays are prodtrCd m • gas and not on the solid electro®!* permitting study of the X-rays ot which has hitherto been Mr Moore Was awarded Research Scholarship to ebntinue »■. work and the Research Fellowship’ enable him to advance it for a y"-j degree. He plans to built a curve crystal spectrograph which wiU perm examination of tne behaviottf ot ’ - electrodeless X-ray tube and the produced. , . Mr A. H. Mcllraith also took honours in physics for his master of scrogg degree with a thesis on the relaKan times of polar molecules in high-iv quency fields. He has been on staff of the physics department I® some time and will continue work i ■ the Ph.D. degree on the soft * spectra of solid compounds, which sno by their forms how the atoms in com pounds are bound together. j Both fellowships have a tenure two years.