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THE names of the following scientific men and others associated with scientific work appear in the New Year Honours List: O.M.: Prof. Gilbert Murray, F.B.A., trustee of the British Museum and president of the International Committee for Intellectual Co-operation. Baronets: Sir Kenneth Lee, lately director general and secretary of the Ministry of Information, formerly chairman of the Industrial Grants Committee of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Mr. Hugh Lett, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. K.C.B.: Dr. E. V. Appleton, F.R.S., secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. K.B.E.: Mr. D. E. Vandepeer, second secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Knights Bachelor: Khan Bahadur Maulvi Azizul Haque, Vice-Chancellor, University of Calcutta; Dr. S. S. Bhatnagar, director of industrial development, Advisory Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, and lately director of the University Chemical Laboratories, Lahore; Prof. W. L. Bragg, F.R.S., Cavendish professor of experimental physics in the University of Cambridge (who is taking the style Sir Lawrence Bragg); Brevet Colonel R. N. Chopra, professor of pharmacology and director of the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta; Mr. R. B. Ewbank, lately Commissioner for Natural Resources, Newfoundland; Dr. James Weir French, chairman of Messrs. Barr and Stroud, Ltd.; Mr. P. R. Laird, secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland; Brigadier C. G. Lewis, surveyor-general of India; Prof. J. S. E. Townsend, F.R.S., Wykeham professor of physics in the University of Oxford; Prof. R. S. Wallace, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sydney.
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New Year Honours List. Nature 147, 52–53 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147052b0
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