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THE following announcements have been recently made in the University of Birmingham. The title of reader in astrophysics has been conferred on Dr. M. C. Johnson, lecturer in physics. Appointments : Prof. F. W. Shotton, of Sheffield, to the chair of geology in succession to Prof. L. J. Wills ; W. I. B. Smith to be Nuffield Foundation Fellow in the Department of Physics ; Dr. D. H. Whiffen, to be lecturer in physical chemistry ; W. R. Cheetham, to be lecturer in mining ; J. G. Jackson, to be lecturer in pathology ; Miss V. Norris, research fellow in the Department of Medical Statistics, to be senior statistical officer. Resignations : Dr. C. H. Westcott, Nuffield Research Fellow, on appointment as associate professor in the Department of Physics, McGill University ; and Dr. R. Padley, senior statistical officer in the Department of Medical Statistics, on appointment as deputy statistical officer to the City of Birmingham Corporation. G. de Q. Robin, lecturer in physics, has been given leave of absence tor join the Anglo-Norwegian expedition to Queen Maud Land. G. T. Warwick is leading an expedition to Lyngen Fjord, Northern Norway, this summer ; the party will consist of seven final-year geography students and a Norwegian student from the Civil Engineering Department. The objects of the expedition will be to make a study of the geomorph-ology, human geography and microclimatology of the region. H. Thorpe is visiting Denmark and Sweden during the summer vacation to continue research into forms of rural settlement, with particular reference to Green Villages.
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University of Birmingham : Appointments. Nature 163, 988 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163988a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163988a0