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NEW PHYSICS LABORATORY. THE University of Bristol not only oves its foundation to a member of the family of Wills, but also has since received a series of princely gifts from his two sons, Sir George and the late Mr. Henry Herbert Wills. Of these none is more striking than the Henry Herbert Wills Physics Laboratory, formally opened on Oct. 21 by Sir Ernest Rutherford before a distinguished company of physicists and of supporters of the University in Bristol and the surrounding coimties. The laboratory throughwhich Bristol may be expected to become increasingly important as a centre of physical research and teaching has arisen as the result of a gift of £200,000 presented in the years 1919–20. Mr. Wills desired that this gift should be used mainly in the erection of the building and that the interest accruing in the meantime should provide for its scientific equipment and go towards the establishment of an endowment fund for its maintenance.
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The University of Bristol. Nature 120, 601–602 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120601a0
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