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THE celebration of the centenary of the birth of James Clerk Maxwell is to be held in Cambridge on Oct. 1 and 2, following immediately on the Faraday celebrations and the British Association meeting. About ninety delegates have been nominated by the principal academies and learned societies of the world and by the home universities. Amongst the delegates are Profs. Kennelly and Millikan from the United States; Profs. Cotton and Brillouin from France; Prof. Max Planck, Prof. Debye, Prof. Bohr, Prof. Siegbahn, His Excellency the Marchese Marconi, General Smuts, Prof. Zeeman, and Prof. Nagaoka. The University of Cambridge has also invited a number of guests and will have the pleasure of welcoming at the celebration many of those who worked in the Cavendish Laboratory in its first years under Maxwell—Dr. William Garnett, Sir Ambrose Fleming, Sir Richard Glazebrook, Sir Napier Shaw, Sir Arthur Schuster, Prof. W. M. Hicks, and others. Before the opening of the celebration in Cambridge, it is expected that many of the delegates will attend the unveiling of memorial tablets to Faraday and Maxwell in Westminster Abbey. The Royal Institution and the University of Cambridge have obtained the permission of the Dean and Chapter for the placing of these memorials, and it has been considered appropriate that they should lie, with the Kelvin tablet, in close proximity to the Newton tomb. The Master of Trinity, Sir J. J. Thomson, will unveil the tablets at noon on Sept. 30.
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[News and Views]. Nature 128, 487–490 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128487a0
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