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...Teddington, 13 miles from London, is Britain's National Physical Laboratory, which, like the Bureau of Standards in the U.S., checks weights and measures, tests and develops materials for industry. N.P.L.'s director-an important post in British science-lives in the palace where William IV lived as a prince with his mistress, as a king with his queen. Three weeks ago Professor William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, distinguished son of a distinguished father, moved out of the palace to become boss of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory (TIME...
Last week it became known in England that Dr. Charles Galton Darwin, mathematical physicist, distinguished grandson of Charles Darwin, would move into the Teddington palace, having been appointed N.P.L.'s new director...
William's palace is today the nucleus of Britain's National Physical Laboratories, an analogue of the Bureau of Standards in the U. S. Comprising nearly 30 buildings scattered over 50 acres, the Teddington laboratories check weights and measures, test and develop new materials for industry. It was there that the best shape for the Queen Mary's hull was worked out. On the lower floor of the palace, technicians are busy in their workrooms. In 30 rooms on the upper two floors, recently refurbished, lives one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg...
...Third son of George III, he had no great expectation during his youth of becoming England's monarch. As the Duke of Clarence, he bestowed his ardors on a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, to whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess Charlotte, moved him up to second place as a regal candidate, he kicked Mrs. Jordan out. After ascending the throne, he lived in the Teddington...
Last week there was an unwonted scurry and bustle on the top floors of King William's palace. The reason was not the war panic swirling over Europe, but the fact that William Lawrence Bragg, having hardly settled down at Teddington, had been appointed to a newer and loftier post: Cavendish Professor at Cambridge University. "Cavendish Professor" means director of the Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics. This post, which Bragg takes over this week, is regarded- in England at least-as the world's top scientific...