Chancellor's Lectures: Famous physicist for this year

Council Reporter

Professor P. M. S. Blackett, FRS, Professor of Physics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, will deliver the Chancellor's lectures next September.

These lectures, instituted in honour of the Chancellor of the University, Sir Duncan Stout, are delivered annually by an outstanding overseas scholar as an extension of the university's normal curricular activities for the students, staff and general public of Wellington.

Previous lecturers have been Sir Herbert Read, Sir Basil Spence and C. P. Fitzgerald.

Professor Blackett, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948, has recently been elected president of the Royal Society. He has taken an active interest in the political aspects of science and is a member of the British Government's advisory committee on technology.

His publications include "Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy" (1948), "Atomic Weapons and East-West Relations" (1956) and "Studies of War" (1962).