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IT may fairly be said of Lord Balfour that no statesman ever did so much to promote the development of science or kept in closer touch with its progress. He was First Lord of the Treasury during the initial stages which led to the foundation of the National Physical Laboratory, and it was his sympathy and support which made the Laboratory possible. He was instrumental in founding the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and was, as Lord President of the Council, for many-years its official head. Everyone who has been connected with the Department knows the keen interest he took in its work and development and how much it owes to his advice and sympathy, on which they felt they could rely in any case of difficulty: help was never given more gracefully or more tactfully. The same is true of the Medical Research Council, in which he took deep interest.
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From Sir J. J. THOMSON, O.M., F.R.S., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Nature 125, 499–500 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125499a0
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