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IT is a well-established axiom to-day that progress in all branches of scientific knowledge can only be maintained by the conduct of intensive fundamental research, as well as by the continued developments in the application of the particular field of science under consideration. In many fields this type of research can be carried out within the confines of the ordinary scientific laboratory. Research into the fundamental problems of radio communication, however, can scarcely be limited in this way, since many of the investigations require to be conducted in a laboratory of world-wide dimensions, and considerable resources and much co-operation are necessary in order to stage the experimental work on an adequate basis. Such considerations as these have led to the establishment of national radio research boards, the first of which was formed in Great Britain in 1920, while others have followed in Australia and Canada. The time would now appear to be very opportune for considering the establishment of a similar Radio Research Board in India, where fundamental research in radio communication has so far been limited to the activities of quite small bands of workers in different universities, notably those under Prof. S. K. Mitra at Calcutta and under Prof. M. N. Saha at Allahabad.
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Organisation of Radio Research in India. Nature 137, 841–842 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137841a0
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