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Clifford Copland Paterson

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67:, approached him with a view to him setting up a research department for the company's Osram lightbulb manufacturing division. He accepted a further invitation following the end of World War I, this time to establish a research facility to serve the whole of GEC. The laboratories came into existence at the start of 1919, initially housed at the Osram Lamp and Valve Works at 336: 142: 95: 260: 45: 321: 311: 235: 37: 200: 75:, and the new buildings came into use in 1922. Paterson would remain as director of the laboratories – later named the 316: 120: 71:. Planning for new purpose-built laboratories began almost immediately with a site being found at East Lane, 99: 60: 22: 113: 91: 83: 82:
Paterson was the recipient of several honours, including an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the
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Anonymous (1948). "Obituary. Sir Clifford Copland Paterson, FRS, 1879-1948".
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Anne Locker (2004). "Paterson, Sir Clifford Copland (1879–1948)".
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Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
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in 1903, specialising in light and lighting. He was awarded an
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in 1916 for his work on the Paterson-Walsh aircraft
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FRS
electrical engineer
Mill Hill School
Finsbury Technical College
Faraday House
National Physical Laboratory
OBE
height finder
Hugo Hirst
General Electric Company
Hammersmith
Wembley
Hirst Research Centre
University of Birmingham
Faraday Medal
James Alfred Ewing Medal
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
Fellow of the Royal Society
knighted
Royal Society
Clifford Paterson Lecture
Institute of Physics
Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/50385
UK public library membership
doi
10.1680/IJOTI.1948.13386
"National Portrait Gallery - Person - Sir Clifford Copland Paterson"

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