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DR. HARRY MOORE, who has been appointed by the Council of the University of Sheffield to succeed Prof. Turner on his retirement, will bring with him to the task the benefit of a broad academic training and research experience, coupled with exceptionally wide and specialized technological knowledge. After a distinguished student career at the Royal College of Science during 1904–7, followed by a year as a demonstrator in the Physics Department of the College, he was, in 1908, appointed lecturer in physics at King's College, London, a post which he held until 1915. While there he published in the Philosophical Magazine, the Proceedings of the Royal Society and the Proceedings of the Physical Society papers on the influence of X-rays on various substances. Another group of papers on X-rays appeared between 1924 and 1928 in the British Journal of Radiology. During 1915–19 he was busy in connexion with Ministry of Munitions training schemes, finally being transferred to the Ministry of Labour Training Department as chief technical officer for south-west England. In 1919 he was appointed assistant director of research of the British Scientific Instrument Research Association under Sir Herbert Jackson, and when Sir Herbert retired in 1933, Dr. Moore succeeded him. In 1937, Messrs. Pilkington Brothers decided to build and equip extensive research laboratories and invited Dr. Moore to become the first director, a post which he still holds. He has served for some twenty-five years on committees of the British Standards Institution dealing with subjects related to instruments and to glasses for a variety of purposes; and since 1933 on the inter-departmental committee on optical glass set up by the three Service Departments. In April 1944 Dr. Moore was elected to the presidency of the Society of Glass Technology, and has been nominated for a second year of office. Dr. Moore, with his wise and genial personality and his wide experience of glass and its manifold applications, is an excellent choice for the variety of important activities centred in the work of the Department of Glass Technology of the University of Sheffield.
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Glass Technology at Sheffield: Dr. Harry Moore. Nature 155, 420–421 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155420b0
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