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SIR RICHARD GLAZEBROOK, the occupant of the Zaharoff chair of aeronautics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, completed on March 24 the series of five lectures which initiate the new course of study. It will be remembered that Sir Basil Zaharoff founded similar chairs in Paris and in Petrograd. The London chair has been chosen by the Government as the nucleus around which to organise a central school of aeronautics—a scheme in which the new professor's long experience as Director of the National Physical Laboratory, chairman of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and, latterly, chairman of the Government Committee on Education and Research in Aeronautics, will be of immense help. In the years to come the courses of instruction so provided will doubtless prove of service to officers of the Royal Air Force selected by the Air Ministry for higher technical training, in addition to such numbers of other students as the then position of civil aviation may inspire to join this new and adventurous profession.
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Aeronautics at the imperial college. Nature 105, 214–215 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105214a0
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