Professor P. M. S. BLACKETT , F.R.S.
THE SPEAKER tonight who is to give his individual conception of what our national future ought to be is that rare combination-a scientist and a sailor. Professor Blackett was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, and saw war service with the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1919, being promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1918. He has been Professor of Physics at the Birkbeck College, University of London, since 1933. He was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, in 1923 ; Demonstrator in Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1925, and Lecturer in 1930.