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SIR JOSEPH THOMSON is being entertained to dinner at Cambridge to-day on the attainment of his seventieth birthday. The event is one in which all who are concerned with scientific progress would desire to be associated in congratulatory expression; though only a limited number of friends are participating in the actual celebration. We are therefore devoting the main part of this week's issue of NATURE, as well as the whole of the special Supplement, to articles on the Cavendish Laboratory and its directors, with particular reference to Sir Joseph Thomson's work and influence. It would of course have been easy to obtain hundreds of appreciative messages for publication on this occasion, but in inviting such expressions of congratulation, we limited ourselves to some distinguished men of science abroad who have carried on research in the Cavendish Laboratory or have devoted themselves particularly to investigations along lines which started there. We are proud of the opportunity of publishing the tributes of affection and esteem received in response to our invitation, and we are sure that they represent the feelings of the whole scientific world.
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The New Physics. Nature 118, 865–867 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118865a0
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