A RADIO EXPERT

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 5

A RADIO EXPERT

_RESEARCH APPOINTEE A SERVICE TO LISTENERS. ‘The "Radio Record" has pleasure fn announcing that an appointment of outstanding ‘interest to all radio enthusiasts has: been made: that of Dr. Miles A. F. Barnett, M.Se., Ph.D., Ass. I.R.E., as physicist to the Dominion Laboratory. Dr. Barnett, who is now carrying out investigations in fangland for the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, is highly qualified as a radio scientist. ’ The services of Dr. Barnett will be available to radio in the Dominion and his advice on problems in which scientific research is necessary will be invaluable. Dr. Barnett has had a brilliant scientific, career. He isa son of Sir Louis Ederard Barnett, C.M.G., of Dunedin, and took his M.Se. degree at Otago University in 1924, gaining first class honours in electricity, magnetism and mathematics. While attending the Research Station at Clare College, Cambridge, he won the Denham Baynes Research Scholarship, and since then has been engaged as a qualified investigator under the Radio, Research Board in England. He also worked at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, under Sir Ernest Rutherford. | _ Dr. Barnett has had a highly in‘radio career and has: succeeded in, solving a number of problems that were baffling investigators. He was one of the scientists who went with an expedition to Greenland to ¢arry out research work into the question of the fading of radio signals, and has taken prominent part in @ number of other investigations of the scientific side of radio. Dr. Barnett is at present working at the National Physical Laboratory in England on problems associated with New Zealand’s export produce, but will later be returning to New Zealand. .