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Hoyle/Box 38/5/5
Unique identifier
GB 275 Hoyle/Box 38/5/5
Title
Typescript letter, signed, from R. v. d. R. Woolley (Astronomer Royal) to FH
Date(s)
- 11 Jul 1961 (Creation)
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1p paper
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At its recent meeting the National Committee for Astronomy considered the report of the Sub-committee set up to deal with the proposal to establish an Institute of Theoretical Astronomy. The committee would not want to encourage the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex to plan work in the mathematical and physical sciences around such an Institute if a powerful bid to house it were going to come from Cambridge. Encourages FH to campaign for such an institution in Cambridge, and notes that the Grants Committee must be approached by Sep. if anything is to take place in the current quinquennium.