TRAVEL AWARD
Royal Socy Grant
The Canterbury branch of the Royal Society has granted a travel award of $3OO to a Ph.D. student in the physics department of the University of Canterbury, Mr P. H. Butler. He will attend a conference of the N.A.T.O. Advanced Study Institute to be held next month in Izmir, Turkey. The award will help Mr Butler attend the conference which will be on new directions in atomic physics. Lecturers and students will at-
tend from many parts of Europe, the United States, Asia and the Near East It will be held from September 8 to September 20. Professor B. G. Wybourne, of the physics department at Canterbury, who has been invited to give a paper at the gathering, said the Royal Society’s award was most valuable as there was little opportunity for advanced students in New Zealand to attend such valuable conferences. The idea behind it was to give young students starting out on research an idea of what was happening now in various fields. While overseas, Mr Butler will visit the United Kingdom, as well as universities in Europe. Another student from the department who is working for his Ph.D., Mr T. G. Haskell, will also attend the conference, and both plan to visit the Lithuanian Academy of Science.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32068, 16 August 1969, Page 12
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