EXTENSIVE RESEARCH

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4234, 22 January 1940, Page 2

EXTENSIVE RESEARCH

SCIENCE AND THE WAR. “Seventeen eminent scientists, with fourteen personal assistants, have given up their normal occupations for the duration of the war to devote their abilities to the acceleration of researches already begun and the starting of new ones. In addition, twenty-seven special teams, each headed by a ‘key scientist,’ and including in their ranks one hundred and twelve assistants, have been organised to take on at once particular problems, or groups of problems,

with every prospect of affording a spedy solution. These teams cover the fields of organic and inorganic chemistry, of pure and applied physics, of ballistic and other branches of applied mathematics, of physiology, pharmacology, metallurgy, explosives. and others. Some urgent new problems have already arisen and are being tackled by some of these teams. In addition, the services of thirty-five distinguished scientists have been earmarked for special service as ana when required. This is perhaps the most comprehensive mobilisation of scientific and technical talent in the national service that has ever been attempted. At any rate, we feel that ah much has been done as possible to meet unseen requirements.”—The Director of the British Scientific Research Department of the Ministry of Supply.