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THE inaugural meeting of the new Institute of Physics was held on Wednesday, April 27, in the rooms of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The creation of a new institute was first suggested about four years ago, and in the interim the scheme has been most carefully deliberated over and developed, and it received the sanction of the Board of Trade in November of last year. The object of the institute is specially to look after the professional interests of physicists, to set up and require from its members a high standard of professional conduct, and in other ways to forward the development of physics. It is thus intended to play the same part for physics that the Institute of Chemistry and various engineering bodies do for the cognate subjects. Its founders look forward to the foundation of a central building in which the various societies that participate with it can be housed and their libraries assembled so as to become more accessible than at present. It is not likely that this part of the scheme can come to fruition at any early date; the possibility may, however, rapidly develop now that the public has been called in to inaugurate the institute.
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The Inauguration of the Institute of Physics. Nature 107, 312–313 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107312a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107312a0