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THE R. W. Paul Instrument Fund was established by a trust created under the will of Mr. R. W. Paul, who died in March 1943. The income from the fund will be administered by a committee composed of representatives of the Royal Society, the Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. The committee will consider and adjudicate upon applications which may be submitted for financial assistance by means of grants for the following purposes: (a) for the design, construction and maintenance of novel and improved types of physical instruments and apparatus for investigations in pure and applied physical science, particularly in cases where a relatively large expenditure may be justified on experimental apparatus. (b) For the assistance of research by provision of equipment, building facilities or financial or other aid in such manner as the committee may determine in each case. Grants from the fund shall not be used to relieve expenditure in any establishment controlled by the Government, or to relieve any university or other educational establishment of its normal financial obligations. When an application is favourably regarded by the committee, an assessor will be appointed to advise in detail on the merits of the application, the feasibility of producing the desired result by means of the proposed instrument or apparatus, the urgency of the need for it and the probable cost of execution of the work.
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The R. W. Paul Instrument Fund. Nature 156, 77 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156077b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156077b0