Scope and Contents The National Physical Laboratory comprises materials that illustrate some aspects of administrative changes and of the daily life of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the period Sutherland worked there. Sutherland was appointed as Director of the NPL in succession to E.C. Bullard in January 1956. He took up his appointment in September of that year and remained in office until 1964 when he resigned in order to become Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. During Sutherland's...

Scope and Contents Committees, Societies, Organisations documents Sutherland's involvement with various societies and organisations, has considerable material on the formation of the International Organisation for Pure and Applied Biophysics in which Sutherland played a major part, and the British National Committee on Data for Science and Technology, a committee that was set up in 1966 to liaise with the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) (q.v.). Sutherland was the first Chairman of...