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THE death occurred on August 13 of Dr. L. Slater, chief coal survey officer (Sheffield), North-Eastern Division, National Coal Board, at the age of fifty-six. Dr. Slater, a graduate of the University of Manchester, served during the First World War as an officer in the Gas Corps, and was afterwards associated with the late Dr. F. S. Sinnatt and the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Research Association in the development of the physical and chemical survey of coal seams. In 1923 Dr. Slater went to Sheffield to found, for the Fuel Research Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the South Yorkshire Coal Survey Laboratory, which, in its early days, was closely associated with the late Prof. R. V. Wheeler.
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MOTT, R., WANDLESS, A. Dr. L. Slater. Nature 164, 429–430 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164429a0
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