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UNDER the auspices of the International Institute of Refrigeration, which has its headquarters in Paris, a congress reflecting all sides of the practice and theory of refrigeration, to which the Governments of more than fifty countries are sending official delegates, is being held at The Hague on June 16-27. The British party visiting Holland, numbering about eighty persons, and headed by Dr. Ezer Griffiths, president of the British Association of Refrigeration, is the largest overseas delegation to the Congress. By the co-operation of Lord Rutherford and Prof. F. A. Lindemann, several well-known scientific workers from Cambridge and Oxford are reading papers on very-low temperature research, in which subject the president of the congress, Dr. W. H. Keesom, of Leyden, is a leading authority. The Food Investigation Board has also sent representatives who are contributing reports on food research. Refrigeration is such an important factor in everyday life nowadays, not only in relation to food supply but also as an auxiliary process in many industries, that the two hundred papers presented to the Congress barely exhaust the many phases of this modern branch of engineering development. The International Institute promoting this series of congresses is established under Government convention.
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Seventh International Congress of Refrigeration. Nature 137, 1025 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371025a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1371025a0