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SIR RICHARD GLAZEBROOK reaches his eightieth birthday on September 18, and there must be few men in this or any other generation whose names are associated with such a long career devoted unremittingly to the services of science and the State. “Ease, from this noble miser of his time, no moment seeks” and first as fellow, tutor and bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge, then as principal of University College, Liverpool, and afterwards as firstf director of the National Physical Laboratory, Sir Richard has never wearied in well doing, and has ever brought a single-minded resolution to bear in turn on each of the many problems which came to hand. Of the ‘breadth and diversity of his activities there is no room to speak here’ the Universities Commission, the Museums Commission, the 1851 Commission, the Aeronautical Research Committee, the “Dictionary of Applied Physics”, the Gas Referees, the presidencies of many institutions and societies—he has always revelled in work and thrived on it. As chairman of countless committees, he is not likely to be surpassed for his ability to crystallise discussion into decision and decision into action. But the biggest debt of all which the Nation owes him, and for which he will always be remembered, is for the skill, resource, pertinacity and judgment he brought to bear in creating and moulding the laboratories at Teddington into a great national institution with a standing unquestioned, both at home and abroad. It is a privilege to be able to extend our congratulations to Sir Richard on a great occasion, and to wish him many more years of untiring service.
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Sir Richard Glazebrook, K.C.B., F.R.S. Nature 134, 410 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134410a0
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