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Duncan S. Davies
Duncan S. Davies
Pages 68-73
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Although his ability to organize and convince was much recognized, his major role was his ability to influence and persuade "men of action" in both industry and government into fresh channels. In 1945 he began work in the Research Department of the Dyestuffs Division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
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There he was responsible for recommending technology policy to the U.K Secretary of State for Industry, determining government needs for industrial research and development, and placing appropriate contracts with state or private sector agencies. While becoming in 1982 a director and then in 1983 chairman of the British Ceramics Research Ltd., Davies also took on consulting responsibilities for Unilever, Tate & Lyle, Monsanto, and in Washington, D.C., the National Bureau of Stanciards.
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Advisory Board for Research Councils; Advisory Council on Applied R&D, Natural Environment Research Council; Swann Manpower Working Group; Council, Liverpool University; and Council, The Organization of the European Community, London. He was a visiting professor at Imperial College (1968-1970)
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He delighted in travel. A key memory is of him ensconced in corners of obscure airports writingyet another chapter or another article under his many noms de plume in a neat rapid hand with scarcely a correction, or clashing off clozens of strange and funny postcards to his worldwide circle of friends.
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