Abstract
SHORTLY before his unexpected death, Dr. Hatfield, whose name is closely associated with the development of special steels, had completed some reflexions on people and things, inspired by the sight of the great conflagration in Sheffield during the air raids of 1940. Dr. Hatfield was a devoted son of Sheffield, and his aim in writing was to help in its restoration. The little book contains reminiscences of the author's contacts with scientific men and other notable people at home and abroad, brief accounts of visits to industrial centres in other countries, and expressions of personal opinion on matters of public interest. His views on economic questions, based on experience in large-scale industry, lean strongly to the side of private enterprise, while his remarks on scientific and industrial research and its organization gain weight from his own marked success in stimulating co-operative research in the iron and steel industry, and from his earnest advocacy of a similar policy for industry in general. Any profits from the sale of the little book are to be devoted to St. Dunstan's.
Sheffield Burns
Dr.
W. H.
Hatfield
By. Pp. 213. (Sheffield: J. W. Northend, Ltd., 1943.) 7s. 6d.
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Sheffield Burns. Nature 154, 382 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154382c0
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