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A TWO-DAY “Conference on Industry and Research”, under the auspices of the Federation of British Industries, will be held at the Kingsway Hall, London, on March 27 and 28. The Conference will take as its leading subject the application of science by industry and the part that research is playing, and can play, in promoting industrial efficiency, exports, full employment and a higher standard of living. It will be divided into four sessions as follows: (1) Science, industry and the community (speakers, Sir William Larke, Sir Edward Appleton, Sir Harold Hartley and Sir Ernest Simon); (2) scientific research and production (speakers, Dr. J. R. Hosking (Paints Div., I.C.L, Ltd.), Mr. A. Healey:(Dunlop and Co., Ltd.) ; Dr. C. C. Paterson (General Electric Co., Ltd.)) ; (3) scientific research and industrial expansion (speakers, Dr. R. E. Slade (lately research controller, I.C.L, Ltd.), Mr. C. H. Davy (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), Mr. A. J. Philpot (British Scientific Instrument Research Association)); (4) application of research in industry (speakers, Dr. P. Dunsheath (Henley's, W. T. Telegraph Works, Ltd.) and Sir Raymond Streat (chairman of the Cotton Board)). Parts of sessions 2, 3 and 4 will be open to discussion; Sir William Larke will sum up at the end of the Conference.
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Conference on Industry and Research. Nature 157, 101 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157101b0
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