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FEW people in the world of science and engineering have had such a strong sense of order and direction as Alan Faraday Campbell Pollard, who died suddenly at the age of seventy years at Thames Ditton on August 15. He was essentially a crusader, and his sense of mission was such that he spared no amount of trouble and effort to further the objects in which he so optimistically believed. He will perhaps be best remembered both for his efforts to reform methods of instrument design on a sound scientific basis, and not less for his untiring advocacy of comprehensive schemes for indexing scientific literature and, in fact, all serious knowledge. He was fortunate that in these things he seemed, comparatively late in life, to find his true mélier, when the very varied experiences of his earlier days had given him a foundation on which to build.
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MARTIN, L. Prof. Alan F. C. Pollard. Nature 162, 686–687 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162686a0
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