SCIENTISTS TOUR

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 20

SCIENTISTS TOUR

Conferences Overseas Mr G. A. M. King, a scientist at the Geophysics Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Christchu.-h, will leave New Zealand on August 2 to attend conferences in Britain, Jugoslavia and Germany, and to visit research centres in India, France and the United States. Dr. E. I. Robertson, an assistant director-general of the D.5.1.R., announced this recently. Mr King will visit research institutions in India before attending the NA.T.O. advanced study institute in aurora and air glow at Staffordshire, England, from August 15 to 19. “Particularly interesting to the Geophysics Division will be Mr King’s visit to the British radio and space research station at Slough, where a method of analysis developed by the geophysical observatory is forming the basis for a regional research programme,” said Dr. Robertson. Mr King would also attend the symposium on solar terrestrial relations, at Belgrade from August 29 to September 2, and the fifteenth general assembly of the International Union of Radio Sciences, at Munich from September 5 to 9. Mr King will visit research centres in Paris and the United States before returning to Christchurch on October 11.