Bragg, Sir William (Henry), (2 July 1862–12 March 1942), President of the Royal Society, 1935–40; Hon. Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain; Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution, and Director of Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, since 1923; Member of Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research since 1937

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Royal Institution

Food research under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

1951 ◽  
Vol 138 (890) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Food Research ◽  
National Importance ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Control Research ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Control ◽  
Research Director

The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (D. S. I. R.) was established in 1916 and, in June 1917, the Cold Storage and Ice Association sent a deputation to the Department’s Advisory Council, stating that thousands of tons of food were lost annually by decay before they could be marketed, and urging the national importance of research by Government on the preservation of foodstuffs. The Council agreed to consider the matter, and in October a report was prepared and presented by the late Sir William Hardy (then Mr W. B. Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and Secretary of the Society’s Food (War) Committee), and three other Fellows of the Society, the late Professors W. M. Bayliss, J. B. Farmer and Gowland Hopkins. A Research Director and a Research Board were recommended and appointed, the terms of reference of the Board being ‘To organize and control research into the preparation and preservation of foods’. The decision thus taken implied that the work to be done was considered to belong broadly to the class of national researches better conducted by the State than by industry with Government assistance. Hardy was the first Director and the members of the Board were Sir Kenneth Anderson, Sir Walter Fletcher, Sir Richard Threlfall, Professor T. B. Wood, Sir Thomas MacKenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) and Sir Joseph Broodbank (Chairman of the Port of London Authority). The Board became known as the Food Investigation Board—or the ‘F. I. B.’. The word ‘investigation’ rather than ‘research’ was used to avoid confusion with the Fuel Research Board—F. R. B.—which had been set up in the previous year. £5000 was allocated for the expenses of the first half-year, and the Board presented its first report in November 1918.

scholarly journals Obituary notices

1930 ◽  
Vol 126 (803) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Mathematical Society ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Senior Member ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society

Dr. Glaisher died on December 7, 1928, at the age of eighty years. At the time of his death he was the senior of the actual Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, was the senior member of the London Mathematical Society, and was almost the senior in standing among the Fellows of the Royal Society and among the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. Throughout all his years he was devoted to astronomy, chiefly in its mathematical developments. In his prime he ranked as one of the recognised English pure mathematicians of his generation, pursuing mainly well-established subjects by methods that were uninfluenced by the current developments of analysis then effected in France and in Germany. Towards the end of his life he had attained high station as an authority on pottery, of which he had diligently amassed a famous collection. Glaisher was the elder son of James Glaisher, F. R. S., himself an astronomer, a mathematician specially occupied with the calculation of numerical tables, and a pioneer in meteorology, not without risk to his life. For the father, one of the founders of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, was an aeronaut of note; with Coxwell, in 1862, he made the famous balloon ascent which reached the greatest height (about seven miles) ever recorded by survivors.

Food research under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

1951 ◽  
Vol 205 (1083) ◽  
pp. 467-483
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Government Assistance ◽  
Food Research ◽  
National Importance ◽  
Control Research ◽  
And Control ◽  
Research Director

The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (D.S.I.R.) was established in 1916 and, in June 1917, the Cold Storage and Ice Association sent a deputation to the Department’s Advisory Council, stating that thousands of tons of food were lost annually by decay before they could be marketed, and urging the national importance of research by Government on the preservation of foodstuffs. The Council agreed to consider the matter, and in October a report was prepared and presented by the late Sir William Hardy (then Mr W. B. Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and Secretary of the Society’s Food (War) Committee), and three other Fellows of the Society, the late Professors W. M. Bayliss, J. B. Farmer and Gowland Hopkins. A Research Director and a Research Board were recommended and appointed, the terms of reference of the Board being `To organize and control research into the preparation and preservation of foods’. The decision thus taken implied that the work to be done was considered to belong broadly to the class of national researches better conducted by the State than by industry with Government assistance.

Origins of the Royal Institution

1962 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Martin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Royal Institution ◽  
Royal Charter

SynopsisThe paper is an attempt to set the social and historical background against which the Royal Institution was founded, and to trace the events in its very early history. The founder of the Institution was Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, that soldier of fortune who took service with the Elector Palatine of Bavaria, and it was in the course of his duties in Munich that his interest in the practical problems of philanthropy was aroused.In London, in the concluding years of the eighteenth century, he was drawn into the group of philanthropists and reformers among whom William Wilberforce was the leading figure, and Sir Thomas Bernard, Treasurer of the Foundling Hospital, one of the most active members. The focus of their activities was the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, and to this Society Rumford submitted his proposals for a new scientific institution in London, designed to improve the lot of the poor and the working classes by the application of science to useful purposes.It was decided to make an appeal for funds, Rumford's proposals were circulated, and the Count succeeded in interesting the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, who took the Chair at the early meetings and allowed them to be held at his house, 32 Soho Square. At a meeting held there on 7 March 1799, the new institution was formed by resolution of the subscribers of 50 guineas each, who became the first Proprietors of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, as it was afterwards named in its Royal Charter.

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