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THE recent announcement that Mr. E. F. Relf, superintendent of the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory, has been appointed principal of the newly founded College of Aeronautics, will interest all those who are concerned with the well-being of British aeronautics. The purpose of the College, as defined in a recent report published by H.M. Stationery Office, is to provide a high-grade engineering, technical and scientific training in aeronautics for selected students to fit them for leadership in industry and civil aviation, in the Services and in education and research. The College has a governing body of its own, representative of all the interests concerned. Nevertheless, the principal and his staff must bear the responsibility for setting the standards and establishing tradition, especially in the early days. Mr. Relf served an apprenticeship for five years in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard. In 1909 he was awarded an open Royal Exhibition tenable at the Royal College of Science, where he won the Tyndall Prize for physics in 1910 and obtained the diploma of the College in 1912. He was appointed to the staff of the National Physical Laboratory in 1912, and thirteen years later was made superintendent of the Aerodynamics Department.
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College of Aeronautics: Appointment of Mr. E. F. Relf, C.B.E., F.R.S.. Nature 156, 623–624 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156623c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156623c0