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- 58 - Post-war Fundamental Research in Physics Committee

RefNo	CMB/58/1
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the Post-war fundamental research in Physics Committee
Date	11 January 1944
Description	Present at the meeting: Sir Thomas Merton, Chairman; Professor P M S Blackett; Sir Alfred Egerton; Sir Ralph Fowler; Professor H R Robinson 1. ' The committee agreed, in general, with the views expressed in the memorandum prepared by Professor P M S Blackett and Professor J D Cockcroft. 2. The committee made the following recommendations, after having considered the statement prepared by Professor Blackett on the post-war needs of the Physics Department Research School in the University of Manchester 2i That there should be a distinction between ordinary and extraordinary expenditure, the former being met by a specific alloction of an increased grant from the University Grants Comittee 2ii That allocation for extraordinary expenditure should be made on the advice of the Royal Society 2iii That the iincrease in senior personnel doing pure research in the universities should be effected by an increase in the number of teaching and research posts. 2iv That the maintenance of an adequate supply of research students should be, for the time being, the responsibility of the DSIR, a flat rate of remuneration of, say, £220 plus fees a year, for a period of three years, being applicable to all universitites. 2v That there should be an increase in the number of research asssistants and workshop staff, a ratio of 1 to every 3 engaged in research being regarded as a reasonable establishment. 2vi That money should be made available, particularly in the period immediately following the end of the war, for the maintenance of foreign research workers in British laboratories. 3. The committee recommended that enquiries should be made of those Fellows of the Society in charge of physics departments, on the basis of the survey made by Professor Blackett for his own department at Manchester, in order to ascertain post-war needs in other universities. 4. The committee recommended that Sir Lawrence Bragg should be invited to attend the next meeting of the committee. Attached; the memorandum by Professor Blackett and Professor Cockcroft
Extent	1 p
Format	Typescript
AccessStatus	Open

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