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Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of the Institute of Physics (IOP), and Professor Peter Main, director of education and science at IOP, met with the Science Minister Rt Hon David Willetts MP

Scientific societies address the Science Minister

18 May 2012

Scientific societies address the Science Minister

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