VISIT OF SCIENTIST

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

VISIT OF SCIENTIST

Professor T. 11. La by. of Melbourne University, who left Melbourne last February on a visit- to England and the continent, arrived at Wellington by the Rangitiki from Soiitlihniptpn this week. Professor Laby’s chief ' mission was to familiarise himself with "recent progress in physical science and to .arrange for publication of the research work carried out at Melbourne ' tfriiyersity. One impression gained ’by Mr. Laby during bis stay in England was that there was a possibility of a considerably greater co-operation ip scientific research carried on in different partis of '.-he Empire. He said he saw'a good deal rf the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge, which he considered was'the greatest research laboratory iii the world. The institution was in charge of Sir Ernest Rutherford. ' Much work was being done, there on the constitution of the atom, and the structure of the nucleus was being attacked from every angle. Sir Ernest Rutherford, said Mr. Laby, was retiring from the position of president of the Royal Society’ and taking over the chairmanship'"of 4dmmrttees of the Department of Sclmitiliir and Lulus* trial Research.