SCIENTISTS DEPARTURE
Two Positions Overseas (N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 10. New Zealand is losing another of its scientisti—a top man in, his field—because he says there is no encouragement to continue his work in New Zeeland. He is Mr R. B. Thomson, of New Plymouth, a geophysicist and an expert in the study of the ionosphere. Mr Thomson recently spent more than two years in the Antarctic, including 18 months as leader of the joint New Zealand-United States scientific base at Cape Hallett
He left New Plymouth today for Auckland, from where he will fly to Melbourne tomorrow to study the first of two overseas jobs offered to him.
The Melbourne job. at two and a half times the salary he received from the D.S.I.R. in New Zealand, is with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation studying ionised gases. The other job is in Colorado, with the United States National Bureau of Standards.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29510, 11 May 1961, Page 6
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