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BRITISH applied science suffered a grievous loss in the death of the director of the National Physical Laboratory, Sir Joseph Petavel, on March 31. Sir Joseph, who was sixty-two years of age, was second director of the Laboratory, succeeding Sir Richard Glazebrook in 1919 and surviving him by only a few months.
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KAYE, G. Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E., F.R.S.. Nature 137, 646–647 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137646a0
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