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THE twentieth annual report of the National Foundation for Scientific Research, Brussels, for the year 1946–47, gives lists of members of the various commissions, and a note on the Inter-University Institute of Nuclear Physics. It also includes full details of the forty-five research grants made for the year 1947–48, amounting to 2,062,500 francs, and an analysis of the distribution of grants made since the establishment of the Foundation. Special grants for the period 1947–48 have been allotted to M. Biquet for sinking wells in water-bearing strata for the study of the freezing of dead ground at great depths (150,000 francs) ; to Prof. F. Mayence for excavation at Apamèe (100,000 francs) ; to MM. Gratia, Florkin, Massart and Desreux for completing the existing installation of apparatus for electrophoresis by a high-quality optical apparatus of the Klett or Pearson type (100,000 francs) ; and to Prof. Piccard and Prof. Cosyns for submarine investigations at great depths. A list of publications during the year by those receiving grants during 1945–47, arranged under authors' names, is appended.
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National Foundation for Scientific Research, Brussels. Nature 162, 365 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162365f0
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