BRITISH SCIENTISTS THE WORLD’S BEST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 February 1932, Page 8

BRITISH SCIENTISTS THE WORLD’S BEST.

TRIBUTE BY AN AMERICAN. A tribute to British research workers and to the British working man was paid recently by Dr. G. L. Kelley, of Harvard University. He is engaged on research at Oxford. He said: “British' research workers are the finest in the world. We have no one in America to compare with such people as Lord Rutherford or Sir _ William Bragge. If America excels it is in the application of pure research, such as is carried out by these men, to industry. “For example an American scientist', Dr. Langmuir has evolved manjr patents in wireless valves and electric bulbs, winch have been made possible by the research of British scientists. Of course, he would be tue first to acknowledge* hi; indebtedness. “When British scientists like the two I have mentioned come to America, we take off our hats to them. “So far as your working men are concerned, 1 find they are more intelligent and in some ways harder workers than our own. In America we have a large proportion of working men from the non-Anglo-Saxon countries of Europe and they do not make such good workmen.”