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Social Anthropology at Cambridge - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoJOHN HENRY HUTTON, of St. John's College, Cambridge, who is to succeed Prof. T. C. Hodson, was educated at Chigwell School, and Worcester College, Oxford. Dr. Hutton was appointed lecturer in ...
Expedition to Baffin Bay, 1937 - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoA N expedition, led by J. M. Wordie of St. John's College, Cambridge, has returned from a three months voyage to Davis Strait and Baffin Bay. The party, ten in number, had as its main objectives ...
Prof. W. McFadden Orr, F.R.S - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoWILLIAM McFADDEN ORR was born on May 2, 1866, and died in his sixty-eighth year on August 14, having resigned his professorship of pure and applied mathematics in University College, Dublin, ...
Prof. E. V. Appleton, F.R.S - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoH.M. THE KING has approved the appointment of Prof. E. V. Appleton tosucceed Sir Frank Smith as secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Prof.
Physics at St. Andrews : Prof. J. F. Allen - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoTHE vacancy in the chair of natural philosophy in the United College, St. Andrews, due to the acceptance last year by Prof. J. T. Randall of the Wheat-stone chair of experimental physics at ...
University of Reading: Retirement of Prof. J. A. Crowther - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoJ. A. CROWTHER, who is shortly to retire from the chair of physics in the University of Beading -a post which he has held since 1924-has had a long and distinguished career in the sphere of ...
[News and Views] - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoON Dec. 29 occurs the bicentenary of the death of Brook Taylor, who in his day was considered the most notable British mathematician after Newton, and who counted among his contemporaries Halley ...
Emma Corin: ‘I’m striving to find a sense of challenge. There is real excitement in delving into...
The Irish Times· 5 days agoAll of this puts new sorts of pressure on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The asterisked 2020 aside,...
Mr. C. S. Middlemiss, C.I.E., F.R.S. - Nature
Nature· 6 days agoWITH the death on June 11, 1945, at Tunbridge Wells, at the age of eighty-five, of Mr. Charles Stewart Middlemiss, Indian geology has lost its doyen one who will long be regarded as one of the ...
