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DR. ARTHUR D. MERRIMAN has been appointed to the full-time post of registrar-secretary of the Institution of Metallurgists. Dr. Merriman‘s initial training was in physics, mathematics and chemistry, and he has had some twenty years experience in academic fields, including the post of principal of the County Technical School, Wallsend-on-Tyne, 1926–38. During the early part of the Second World War, he served with the Directorate of Scientific Research, Ministry of Supply, and was the senior member of a group of scientific men and engineers dealing with bomb disposal problems ; for his personal courage in emergency situations he was awarded the George Cross. From 1941 until 1944 he was scientific adviser to the Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, and in 1944 was appointed to a special intelligence assignment in the U.S.S.R., followed by similar work in north-west Europe and Germany. Since then he has been a principal scientific officer (technical intelligence) at the Armaments Design Department, Ministry of Supply. Dr. Merriman succeeds Dr. Harold Moore, the Institution‘s first president, who has been serving as registrar, and Mr. K. Headlam-Morley, secretary of the Iron and Steel Institute, who has acted as secretary of the Institution. Office accommodation will continue to be provided for the Institution at 4 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1.
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Institution of Metallurgists : Dr. A. D. Merriman. Nature 161, 674 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161674c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161674c0