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AT the general monthly meeting on May 9, Prof. W. L. Bragg was elected professor of natural philosophy in the Royal Institution, in succession to the late Lord Rutherford. Prof. Bragg, who is the son of Sir William Bragg, the Fullerian professor of chemistry and director of the Royal Institution, was recently appointed Cavendish professor of experimental physics in the University of Cambridge. He is thus the fourth Cavendish professor, following Lord Rayleigh, Sir Joseph Thomson and Lord Rutherford, who has also held the London professorship. At the same meeting Sir J. J. Thomson was re-elected honorary professor of natural philosophy and Sir James Jeans was re-elected professor of astronomy.
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Announcements. Nature 141, 935 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141935a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141935a0