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SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A series of portraits of top scientists drawn from their own mouths
Dr. Duncan Davies
Deputy Chairman. Mond Division. Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. talks to
MARY GOLDRING of The Economist and DAVID WILSON
BBC Science Correspondent
Duncan Davies 's career with I.C.I. has been mainly concerned with inventing and improving products and processes: the most exciting time has been the last five years when he set up a new long-range laboratory by assembling more than a hundred young Ph.D.s and telling them they were science-oriented business men and not obedient specialists.
A Science Unit production
9.58 Weather forecast

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Dr. Duncan Davies
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Mary Goldring
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Duncan Davies
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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