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DR. DAVID STAEKIE has been appointed director of research by the Hosiery Research Council. The appointment is one of the most important preliminary steps yet taken in the establishment of a research organisation for the hosiery industry. Dr. Starkie, who is forty-four, was educated at Staveley Grammar School and the University of Sheffield, and obtained a degree in physics, with first-class honours, in 1925. He was awarded his M.Sc. in 1926 and Ph.D. in 1927 as a result of work on the band spectra of the alkali compounds. After leaving the University, Dr. Starkie lectured and carried out research on the physical properties of glass. He spent two years on research with the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., and then became chief physicist at Messrs. A. Jobling and Co., Ltd., glass manufacturers. In 1939 Dr. Starkie was appointed head of the physics research department of the Plastics Section of Imperial Chemical Industries. Much of his time was devoted to the investigation of the properties of synthetic yarns and fibres, and he worked in close collaboration with a special fibres development department formed to develop the use of synthetic fibres in the textile industry. When it was decided to create an optical development department in 1944, Dr. Starkie was placed in charge of its formation, and the results of his work have had important effects in the optical field. Dr. Starkie is a member of a number of scientific societies and service committees and is also on the Council of the British Scientific Instrument Research Association. He will be responsible for the plan and organisation of the new Hosiery and Allied Trades Research Association now being formed. The Hosiery Research Council, which has done the preliminary work, already possesses premises equipped for research at Thorneywood House, Nottingham, where there is the nucleus of a trained staff.
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Hosiery Research Council : Dr. D. Starkie. Nature 163, 671 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163671a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163671a0