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THE appointment of Prof. F. J. M. Stratton to the post of deputy scientific adviser to the Army Council has been announced. Prof. Stratton‘s retirement from the chair of astrophysics at Cambridge last October was announced in Nature (159, 463 ; 1947), and the record of his scientific work was noted. His was a retirement dictated by the rules of superannuation, and not by any loss of activity ; so that his choice for and acceptance of this further post will be no more a surprise to his friends than his own preference for further service to merited retirement. The War Office is fortunate in securing the services of so able a man of science, particularly one who has given proof, through ten years service in the Army in two wars and a long association with the Cambridge O.T.C. and the Territorial Army, of his aptitude and interest in military affairs. While his appointment will be a temporary one for a limited period, the acquisition to the Scientific Civil Service, even for a short time, of such men as Prof. Stratton will be a source of strength to the Service, and the experience and leadership he can give to some of the younger men of science employed by the Army, in operational research and other tasks, will obviously be of the greatest value to them.
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Deputy Scientific Adviser to Army Council : Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, O.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 161, 388 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161388a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161388a0