Sir Ben Lockspeiser (March 9, 1891 - October 18, 1990) was the first President of CERN. March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ...
Quote about the establishment of CERN. "Scientific research lives and flourishes in an atmosphere of freedom - freedom to doubt, freedom to enquire and freedom to discover. These are the conditions under which this new laboratory has been established"
Reference to an Automatic Computing Engine project is referenced in memos dated from 1950 at the Alan Turing Archive [1] (http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/archive/p/p40/P40-015.html).
One of the original members of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Much is mentioned about his cancellation of the M.52 Supersonic Jet project when he was Director of Scientific Research.
At the close of World War II, the first of the three M.52's was more than 50% completed, with test flights only a few months away.
However in February 1946 the new Labour government introduced a dramatic budget cut, and the Director of Scientific Research, Sir BenLockspeiser, canceled the project.
The decision to cancel resulted from the fact that many captured German high-speed aircraft designs had featured swept-wings, and the government believed that attempting to break the sound barrier in a straight-wing aircraft such as the M.52 would be suicidal.
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