LONDON ARREST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 5

LONDON ARREST

ATOM!C_EXPERT ‘VERY SERIOUS CHARGE’ SECRET DATA INVOLVED (11 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. Dr. Alan Nunnmay, after a brief appearance at the Bow Street Magistrate’s Court, was remanded until March 19. The prosecutor said he was facing a very serious charge. "The defendant is a scientist employed by the Ministry of Supply on research work into atomic energy,” he added. “His work lay in Canada."He is charged, on his own admission, with having communicated information relating to atomic energy to anotfier person, but he refuses to disclose the person’s name and nationality.” Dr. Nunnmay, says the Daily Mail, early attracted attention by his work in. atomic science. One of the first scientists selected to go to Canada in 1941. he remained as one of the British team working in close liaison with Canadian and American scientists until the atomic bomb was perfected. He returned to London last September to resume duties as a reader at the London University acting as head of the physics department of King’s College. He was even better known at Cambridge where he took his B.A. and P.D. degrees. Pie is a native of Birmingham and was for a time at St. Andrew’s University.