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A REPORT of the National Academy of Peiping covering the years 1937-42 has been issued by the Kunming Office of the Academy. On the outbreak of the present war with Japan, Peiping was immediately taken over by the invader, and the Academy, which at its foundation in 1929 consisted of nine separate research institutes with a staff of more than two hundred, succeeded in transferring part of the books and equipment of each of its institutes to the south ; within a few months most of its work was resumed at Kunming, Yunnan, with a staff now consisting of 120 members. In addition to Chinese Government grants amounting to 620,000 dollars, grants are received from the Sino-American, Sino-British and Sino-French Foundation Funds. The Institute of Physics has been increasingly concerned with problems of industry and national defence. A laboratory for spectroscopy has been established to meet the needs of the new metallurgical industry, and the Institute has also standardized more than a thousand radio transmitters with its own quartz oscillators. Its other efforts have been confined mainly to the development of applied optics and geophysical prospecting. The Institute of Radium consists of laboratories for chemistry and radioactivity, in which many Chinese minerals have been examined, and for X-rays, where the work has been mainly on crystal analysis and X-ray studies of alloys of tungsten and antimony.
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National Academy of Pelping. Nature 152, 16–17 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152016c0
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