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33-422: Lockspeiser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ben Lockspeiser (1891–1990), British scientific administrator Edward Lockspeiser (1905–1973), English musicologist, composer, art critic, and radio broadcaster [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Lockspeiser . If an internal link intending to refer to

66-466: A white paper urging that a permanent organisation for the promotion of scientific and industrial research should be set up. By order in council of 28 July 1915 authority for such an organisation was vested in a committee of the Privy Council consisting at first of six ministers and three other privy councillors in their personal capacities. This new Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research

99-528: A first in part one of the natural sciences tripos , and a second in the mechanical sciences tripos. When the First World War began Lockspeiser immediately enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), and sailed for Gallipoli as a private in 1915. He was soon invalided out with amoebic dysentery Amoebiasis to Egypt. He stayed on and worked for a time on a treatment for the disease. He

132-601: A number of small governmental bodies with a specialised scientific interest, but little organised effort towards the application of discoveries made in fundamental research and no organisation concerned with the application of science to industry. The impetus to the establishment of the department was provided by the needs of the war effort. The initiative was taken by the President of the Board of Education who, in May 1915, presented to Parliament

165-439: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lockspeiser&oldid=997235539 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ben Lockspeiser Lockspeiser

198-680: A test pilot and aircraft designer. Elsie died on 2 January 1964. Two years later he married the widow of an old friend from the RAE, Mary Alice Heywood, who died on 1 December 1983. Lockspeiser was “at the age of seventeen, already a gifted pianist and cellist”. In 1922 he founded the RAE Orchestral Society, which later became the Farnborough Symphony Orchestra. He was also a keen gardener. His pre-war interest in Communism made him

231-577: The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). He was to have a big influence on major projects, including the Festival of Britain in 1951; the National Lending Library for Science and Technology in 1952; Bernard Lovell 's Jodrell Bank radio telescope in 1954; and the creation of CERN , of which he was the first president in 1955–7. Each of these is described in some detail in

264-992: The National Physical Laboratory from the Royal Society in 1918, the Geological Survey and Geological Museum from the Board of Education in 1919, the Road Experimental Station from the Ministry of Transport in 1933, the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (previously the Government Chemist's Department) in 1959, and the Tropical Products Institute from the Colonial Office in the same year. Some research organisations founded by

297-686: The Torry Research Station and the Water Pollution Research Laboratory. The British Museum Laboratory, established by the department in 1919, was transferred to the museum in 1930. Three food research establishments, the Pest Infestation Laboratory , Low Temperature Research Station and Ditton Laboratory , passed to the Agricultural Research Council in 1959. From 1941 to 1945 the department

330-447: The 1950s, Lockspeiser's name had appeared quite often in the press, as his views on a wide range of topics were publicised. They ranged from prevention of waste to the future of airfields and from a cross between a car and a helicopter-like plane to forecasting that offices would be equipped with infallible electronic machines, which would foreshadow “the redundancy of much of our present day clerical labour”. He also joined an appeal to

363-461: The 1950s. The department was responsible for the organisation, development and encouragement of scientific and industrial research and the dissemination of its results. It worked by encouraging and supporting scientific research in universities, technical colleges and other institutions, establishing and developing its own research organisations for investigation and research relative to the advancement of trade and industry, and taking steps to further

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396-620: The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Act 1956, which abolished the advisory council and the Imperial Trust and vested executive power in a new Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The council, set up on 7 November 1956, was appointed by and responsible to the Lord President of the Council and was required to comply with any directions it might receive from a committee of

429-567: The Home Secretary ( Gwilym Lloyd George ), with Benjamin Britten , John Masefield and others, to abolish hanging. It was eventually abolished ten years later. An honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford was conferred on Lockspeiser by the vice-chancellor Sir Maurice Bowra on 1 September 1954. He had earlier received an honorary Doctor of Science in engineering from the University of

462-560: The President of the Board of Education was nominated as vice-president of the committee of the Privy Council, and the committee's staff and accommodation were at first provided by the board. With the increasing importance of the industrial side of research, these initial arrangements soon became inadequate. Consequently, in December 1916 a separate Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

495-468: The Privy Council for scientific and industrial research. In 1959 these functions of the lord president were transferred to the newly created Minister for Science. The department was abolished by the Science and Technology Act 1965 , which dispersed its functions over a number of government departments and other bodies. Those primarily concerned were the new Ministry of Technology , which became responsible for

528-491: The Royal Society's biography. Lockspeiser retired in 1956, and then joined the boards of several companies, including Tube Investments , Staveley , H R Ricardo & Warburg's Bank ; in each case he was a scientific consultant, “a pleasant role after the stresses of his official career, especially in the war years, and he enjoyed encouraging his new business colleagues in matters concerning research and development.” In

561-575: The Witwatersrand in 1949 and a Doctor of Science in technology from Haifa Technion in 1952. Lockspeiser was also FEng (1976), FIMechE (1946), and FRAeS (1944). He was an honorary fellow of Sidney Sussex College (1953) and a life fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and he was awarded the American medal of freedom (silver palms) in 1946. Lockspeiser married Elsie Shuttleworth, a botanist, in 1920. They had three children: Judith, Frida and David, who became

594-429: The application of scientific knowledge to industry and for the majority of the department's research establishments; the Department of Education and Science, which took over responsibility for overseas scientific liaison and the general advancement of scientific knowledge; and the new Science Research Council , which was now to deal with grants for university research and awards for postgraduate students. Administered by

627-970: The department had functions defined in terms of a field of science or technology such as the Chemical Research Laboratory, the National Engineering Laboratory and the Hydraulics Research Station . Others were defined in terms of a practical objective, such as the Building Research Station, the Fire Research Station, the Forest Products Research Laboratory, the Fuel Research Station, the Radio Research Station ,

660-420: The development of research associations in private industry and research facilities in university science departments. [It] rapidly assumed a key role in coordinating government aid to university research. It maintained these roles until 1965. The annual budget during its first year, 1915, was £1,000,000. Before the twentieth century, the government was little concerned with scientific enquiry. By 1914 there were

693-462: The new Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1940, to become deputy director (armaments) in 1941. In 1943 he became the ministry's director of scientific research, and in 1945 director-general. He is credited with suggesting the spotlights height system used by 617 Squadron, RAF during the Dam busters raid , unlike in the film The Dam Busters (film) in which it is credited to Guy Gibson In 1946 Lockspeiser

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726-567: The object of monitoring by the Secret Intelligence Service . Lockspeiser died on 18 October 1990 at his home, Birchway, 15 Waverley Road, Farnborough, five months short of his one-hundredth birthday. His estate was valued at almost £477,000. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (United Kingdom) The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was a department of the British Government responsible for

759-632: The organisation, development, and encouragement of scientific and industrial research. At the outbreak of the First World War "Britain found ... it was dangerously dependent on enemy industries". At the request of the Board of Trade , the Board of Education prepared a White Paper under the chairmanship of Sir William McCormick . The DSIR was set up to fill the roles that the White Paper specified: "to finance worthy research proposals, to award research fellowships and studentships [in universities], and to encourage

792-511: The practical application of the results of research. It could make grants for the purposes of any of these functions. The department was not responsible for research undertaken primarily to meet the requirements of national defence, nor did it cover all government activity in research for civil purposes. Large areas of research were the responsibility of other bodies – aviation, atomic energy, agriculture, health and medicine, meteorology – though it might undertake specific investigations on behalf of

825-545: The progress of the approved programme. A Scottish branch office of the department was opened in Edinburgh in September 1947, a Welsh office at Cardiff in 1953, and a Northern branch office at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963. Late in 1954, the Lord President appointed a small committee under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Jephcott to enquire into the organisation and functioning of the department. Its recommendations were given effect in

858-468: The responsible departments. The department encouraged and supported scientific research in universities and other institutions by means of grants for special research projects, research fellowships, studentships, grants to research associations and research contracts. The department absorbed or created a number of research organisations, which included large laboratories for special fields of work. Existing institutions for which it assumed responsibility were

891-546: Was a director of research responsible to the head of the department. The director was provided with one or more research institutes or laboratories and with an advisory research board. The research boards were appointed by the lord president of the Council until 1956 and thereafter by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research . The boards were responsible for advising the council on the programme of work to be undertaken, and to watch, comment and advise, and to report annually, on

924-465: Was appointed chief scientist of the Ministry of Supply. He was heavily involved in research into the secret development of a British atomic bomb, supersonic flight, and guided weapons. He was also keen to support the development of electronic computers, notably the Ferranti Mark 1 at Manchester. Lockspeiser was knighted in 1946. In 1949 he was appointed to succeed Sir Edward Appleton as secretary of

957-703: Was born at 7 President Street in the City of London , the eldest son of Leon Lockspeiser, diamond merchant, and Rosa (née Gleitzman), immigrants from Poland. He spent most of his early years in Clapton, east London, and was educated at the Grocers' School , Hackney . At age fifteen he was awarded a prize as “the best junior boy in all England” in the University of Cambridge Junior Local Examination. Two years later he won an open scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge , where he gained

990-545: Was created, having its own parliamentary vote but responsible to Parliament through the Lord President of the Council . Once the full four-tier organisation of the committee of the council, the Advisory Council, the Imperial Trust and the department was established. In 1928 the committee of council was reconstituted with an entirely ministerial membership; otherwise, the organisation survived with only small changes until

1023-616: Was demobilized in 1919 and, back in England, gained entry to the armaments and aerodynamics section of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough . His work mainly involved the chemical de-icing of aircraft, and metal fatigue. In 1936 he was made head of the RAE's air defence department, succeeding Harold Roxbee Cox . In 1939 Lockspeiser moved to the Air Ministry as assistant director of scientific research, and then to

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1056-597: Was responsible for atomic energy research, in an organisation known as the Directorate of Tube Alloys . In the 1950s the department embarked on research in the human sciences in relation to the needs of industry, undertaken from 1953 to 1957 in collaboration with the Medical Research Council ; in 1958 the department's research programme was transferred from its Headquarters Office to the new Warren Spring Laboratory . The executive head of each research organisation

1089-420: Was to be assisted by an Advisory Council, which in turn was assisted by certain advisory committees. As a first step, a scheme was devised for encouraging groups of firms to set up co-operative industrial research associations. For this purpose, a lump sum of £1 million, the 'Million Fund', was voted and an Imperial Trust was set up to administer it. Because of the close connection between education and research,

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