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DR. H. S. HOULDSWORTH, K.C., who from January 1, 1944, becomes controller-general of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, graduated in science at the University of Leeds in 1911, taking first-class honours in physics as a student of the late Sir William Bragg. After some years of school-teaching and after the outbreak of war, he entered the Fuel Department of the University on the staff of Prof. J. W. Cobb, the regional deputy inspector of high explosives, visiting works for the sampling and testing of their products. In 1918 with the coming of peace he remained with Prof. Cobb in a newly created post as research assistant on refractory materials, working, and later lecturing, on that subject. In a period of seven years he was joint (or Sole) author of a series of papers, mainly for the Ceramic Society, dealing with such matters as the thermal expansion of refractories and the transformations of silica, and although he entered on this work with no special knowledge of the subject, then little studied, he grappled with it effectively and in 1925 was awarded the D.Sc.
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Controller-General of the Ministry of Fuel and Power: Dr. H. S. Houldsworth, K.C. Nature 152, 718 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152718a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152718a0