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THE following new members of the Research Boards of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research have been announced. Building Research Board : C. W. D. Rowe, managing director, London Brick Co. (a former member of the Board) ; B. Sandercock, member of executive council, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers; R. M. Wynne Edwards, Messrs. Richard Costain, Ltd. (formerly director of constructional plant, Ministry of Works). Chemistry Research Board : Prof. M. G. Evans, professor of physical chemistry, University of Manchester; Dr. H. W. T. Thompson, lecturer in chemistry, University of Oxford ; Dr. F. Roffey, Distillers Co., Ltd. Forest Products Research Board : Col. A. H. Lloyd, Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford; H. J. Nuttall, director, Thomas White and Son, Ltd.; V. A. M. Robertson, chief civil engineer, Southern Region, British Railways. Fuel Research Board : Dr. R. Holroyd, research manager, Billing-ham Division, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.; Sir Charles Ellis, scientific member of the National Coal Board ; Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, professor of chemistry, University of Oxford. Mechanical Engineering Research Board : Dr. C. Dannatt, chief electrical engineer and director, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co.; Pest Infestation Research Board : Dr. C. B. Williams, chief entomologist, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
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Research Boards of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Nature 163, 560–561 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163560e0
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