Catalogue description Science and Engineering Research Council and predecessors: Research Grants Committee: Minutes and Papers

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Title: Science and Engineering Research Council and predecessors: Research Grants Committee: Minutes and Papers
Description:

Minutes and papers of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research's Research Grants Committee and its sub-committees for the period 1956-1968. These relate to applications from research workers for support for pure scientific research.

The files in this series were formerly part of the series now in DSIR 17 which were handed over to the Science Research Council and then to the Science and Engineering Research Council and re-registered.
Date: 1956-1968
Related material:

Pre-1956 papers of the DSIR's Scientific Grants Committee are in:

DSIR 1

DSIR 2
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Grants Committee, 1956-1965

Science and Engineering Research Council, Research Grants Committee, 1981-1981

Science Research Council, Research Grants Committee, 1965-1981
Physical description: 96 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Research Grants Committee invited applications from the research worker to support pure research on a potentially exciting and promising line of enquiry without specifying any particular sciences or scientific objectives. The Committee had a member of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research as chairman and included among its members many distinguished British scientists and, as assessors, the Chairman of the University Grants Committee and the Physical and Biological secretaries of the Royal Society.

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