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DE. L. A. SAYCE, who has succeeded Mr. T. Smith as superintendent of the Light Division at the National Physical Laboratory, is fifty years of age. After serving in the Honourable Artillery Company in the First World War, he went to the University of Durham to study chemistry, taking honours in 1922, when he was awarded the Saville Shaw Medal. He remained at Durham carrying out research in inorganic chemistry, was awarded his Ph.D., and in 1927 was appointed University lecturer in chemistry. He remained at Durham until 1940, carrying out during this period considerable fundamental work in inorganic chemistry, instrument design, chemical kinetics and photography.
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The National Physical Laboratory, Light Division : Dr. L. A. Sayce. Nature 162, 987 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162987b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162987b0