ENGLISH ATOMIC SCIENTIST ARRESTED
CIIARGED UNDER OPFICIAL SECRETS ACT. Received Tuesday 8.50 p.m. LO-wDON, March 5. Police ofiicers aireste'l Dr. A. Nunn--;iy raid iater charged hiin under the -ineiai Secrets Act. Nnnnway, who is ' a leetrrer in physics at King's College, mondoii Dniversity, was arrested when nc finished a lecture. An under ,raauace told the Press Aosoeiation that Niram*ay was regardcd as an authority 011 atomic energy. Hunnway, says the Daily Mail, early .ttracted attention by his work in .tomic science. One of the firsfc iCvent sts seleeted to go to Canada in 1941, he remained as one of the British teain working in close liaison with the Cmadian and American scientists until ti:e atomic bomb was perfected. He returned to London last September to rc::iune his duties as a reader at London Dniversity, acting as head of the Physics Department at King's College. He is even better known at Cambridge, where he took his B.A. and Ph.D. de 1 grees. He is a native of Birmingham and was for a time at St. Andrew's Dniversity.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1946, Page 5
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