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A REPORT published on November 19 in the Cambridge University Reporter gives an account of a proposed arrangement for the transfer of apparatus from the Royal Society Mond Laboratory at Cambridge to a new laboratory which is being built for Dr. P. Kapitza in the U.S.S.R. It will be remembered that Dr. Kapitza was refused leave to return to England after his visit to Russia in September 1934. In the report of the Committee for the Laboratory, it is pointed out that much of Dr. Kapitza's work in Cambridge had been preliminary to the experiments with strong magnetic fields at the temperature of liquid helium which he was on the point of beginning before he left for Russia, and that members of the Laboratory would not care to take up these experiments if Dr. Kapitza wished to resume work at once in this field. It is therefore suggested that the large generator for the production of strong magnetic fields, together with its associated apparatus, should be sold to the Government of the U.S.S.R. for the use of Dr. Kapitza. The remainder of the apparatus in the Laboratory, including the apparatus for the production of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, would not be transferred since it is in constant use and will be required for the future work of the laboratory. It is proposed, however, to supply duplicates of this apparatus for transfer to Russia, so that Dr. Kapitza will have equipment identical with that he had developed in Cambridge. With the sum received for this apparatus it is proposed to buy new equipment suitable for the future work of the Laboratory. Such equipment might include a large electromagnet which could be used for nuclear research or for the production of low temperatures by the method of adiabatic demagnetisation.
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Dr. P. Kapitza's Apparatus and the U.S.S.R.. Nature 136, 825 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136825a0
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