Calendar: 1973-1974 Page 456

Annual Report of the Delegacy lxxxiii First Degrees Sc Physics major 1st class honours 2nd-class honours upper division 2nd-class honours lower division 3rd-class honours Pass Sc Broad-based 1st class honours 2nd-class honours upper division 2nd-class honours lower division 3rd-class honours Pass Departmental Notes Research activity in the department has been very high and record number of more than 70 papers have been published during the year New teaching laboratories in the Strand block have been brought into operation and with the theoretical group now also installed in the new building the department has been reunited after many years of separa- tion Dr Wilkinson was promoted to professorship in rec- ognition of his distinguished contributions to infra-red and Raman spectroscopy Dr Chapman who has directed the research of the radiophysics group since Sir Edward Appleton left the College in 1936 retired at the end of the session The large number of his former research students and his colleagues on the staff wish him happy retire- ment Dr Ll Jones who was appointed to Readership will take over the responsibility for this group Dr Barr has been appointed to lectureship and will continue his activities in radiophysics Professor Price and Dr Potts continue to expand the field of photo- electron spectroscopy and have solved several fundamental problems in the field during the year Techniques for studies on the angular dependence of photoelectron emission and on the spectra of transient species have been developed Professor Wilkinson's group has pioneered double-beam Raman technique which promises to be useful in the study of intermolecular interactions between solute and solvent molecules Dr Sherman's group have carried their high-pressure work down to liquid helium temperatures with cells developed within the department