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  1. Blackett, P. M. S., “Universities and the Nation's Crisis” in British Association/Granada,Guildhall Lectures 1963 (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1963), p. 37.

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  2. Cf. “The Emigration of British Scientists”,Minerva, I, 3 (Spring, 1963), pp. 342–380.

  3. The Royal Society,Emigration of Scientists from the United Kingdom. Report of a Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal Society (London: Royal Society, 1963), 32 pp. Summarised inMinerva, I, 3 (Spring, 1963), pp. 358–362.

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  4. Committee on Higher Education,Higher Education. Appendix Two (B) to the Report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister under the Chairmanship of Lord Robbins. 1961–63. Students and their Education. Cmnd. 2154 II–I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1963), p. 61.

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  5. The high quality of the emigrants is attested by the statement of Mr. D. D. Hughes, a personnel administrator with ICI, that, whereas 70 per cent. of the British scientists in North America who are interviewed by or on behalf of British firms for employment in Britain are regarded as desirable staff members, only 50 per cent. of the scientists who are interviewed in Britain are regarded as conforming with the same standard. (Personal communication, London, February 1964.)

  6. The following comment by a migrant-engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, illustrates this issue: “I went back to the College of Science and Technology at Manchester, and I sort of expected there might be some interest in what Brown & Company had been up to at MIT ... but the reaction was: ‘Well, you're back. How about a game of table tennis?’ I thought there might be some hope for students, and I was teaching a course in circuit theory. Now, Professor Guillemin, who was active then at MIT, had a very elegant and general way of looking at this subject, and I thought I'd introduce some of this into the course. It was the only time in my career I've had any objection to my teaching. From the students! It wasn't in the syllabus; how could they prepare for the exams? I gave up. That very day I wrote to Gordon Brown.” See Wall, P., Evans, J., Colbourne, R. H.,et al., “On Leaving Britain”,Journal of International Science and Technology (New York) (August, 1964), p. 54.

  7. 41·1 per cent. regularly boughtThe Observer; 32·8 per cent.The Guardian; 13·4 per cent.The Sunday Times; 6·9 per cent.The Listener; 6·6 per cent. theNew Statesman.

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Wilson, J.A. The emigration of british scientists. Minerva 5, 20–29 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02389790

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