Abstract

DR. DAVED A. KEYS, Macdonald professor of physics at McGill University, has been appointed vice-president of the National Research Council, Canada, in charge of the atomic energy establishment at Chalk River, Ontario. The National Research Council has now taken complete responsibility for the operation of this undertaking. Hitherto, the National Research Council was responsible for the Research Division on Atomic Energy, of which Dr. W. B. Lewis is director, but Defence Industries Ltd. was in charge of the construction and operation of the industrial, pilot plant facilities and the village of Deep River. Dr. Keys has had a long and impressive experience in research, scientific education and administration. Born in Toronto, he attended Upper Canada College and had a brilliant record at the Universities of Toronto and Cambridge and Harvard University. He joined the staff of McGill University in 1922.

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