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SIR JOHN ANDERSON, the Lord Privy Seal, has appointed a Civil Defence Research Committee, to be constituted as follows: Dr. E. V. Appleton (chairman), formerly Jacksonian professor of natural philosophy at the University of Cambridge, now Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Prof. J. F. Baker, professor of Civil engineering at the University of Bristol; Prof. J. D. Bernal, professor of physics at Birkbeck College, University of London; Dr. C. G. Darwin, director of the National Physical Laboratory; Prof. A. J. S. Pippard, professor of civil engineering in the Imperial College, University of London; Prof. R. V. Southwell, professor of engineering science at the University of Oxford; Prof. G. I. Taylor, Yarrow research professor of the Royal Society at Cambridge; Prof. W. N. Thomas, professor of engineering at University College, Cardiff. The secretary of the committee is Dr. E. N. Fox, Cleland House, Page Street, S.W.I. The committee will advise the Lord Privy Seal on programmes of research and experiment. The aim is to secure the fullest possible co-ordination over the wide field of work now comprised in civil defence.
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Civil Defence Research Committee. Nature 143, 847 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143847c0
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