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THE Guthrie Lecture of the Physical Society will this year be given by Prof. Arturo Duperier on July 6 at the Royal Institution, his subject being "The Geophysical Aspect of Cosmic Rays". As research professor in the Instituto Nacional de Fisica y Quimica (Rockefeller Foundation), Madrid, Dr. Duperier made experimental studies in magnetism in association with his former teacher, Prof. Cabrera. Later, in 1932, he was appointed professor of geophysics at the University of Madrid. His geophysical researches included studies on meteorology, atmospheric electricity and cosmic radiation; papers on these subjects were published during the Civil War, in the course of which he paid two visits to Great Britain; the victory of Franco occurred during his second visit, and he has since lived and worked here. In association with Prof. P. M. S. Blackett he continued observational work on cosmic rays at Manchester, with the aid of a research grant from the Royal Society; later he transferred his apparatus to the Physics Department of the Imperial College, London, where he has worked for several years. His observational discoveries include remarkable occasional changes of cosmic-ray intensity associated with geomagnetic storms.
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Guthrie Lecture of the Physical Society: Prof. Arturo Duperier. Nature 155, 783 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155783b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155783b0