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A SERIES of public lectures on the "Background to Present-Day Problems" has been arranged in the University of Birmingham. The second lecture in this series was given by Prof. M. L. E. Oliphant, Poynting professor of physics in the University. His subject was "Physics in War". Prof. Oliphant stressed the value of academic science, which in present circumstances can be turned to practical use. Future development of industry depends on the academic development of science, which in Great Britain is conducted only in the universities. It is therefore essential that the country should encourage academic research in science if we are to keep any sort of supremacy in industry. So far, the War has been almost entirely a physicists' war, waged with weapons depending for their operation on knowledge gained by physicists.
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Physics in War. Nature 145, 299–300 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145299d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145299d0