Prize Day  1972  Sir William Penney KBE, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission   Speech days
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"Since the war the shortage of scientists had become acute... The next 10 years would provide a lot of young people with the opportunity of making a good start in the scientific world, for demand at the moment seems insatiable.      Our living" he said "would be maintained by the application of science."