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What Grimmett did next is not quite clear. He had radiation sickness as a result of the work he had done during the war, but he recovered and he ended up as Secretary of the Science Commission of the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education. This was one of the organizations that gave birth to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1946. Grimmett moved to Paris as a “Programme Specialist-Apparatus Information Officer” in the Natural Science Department. He also became a Counselor at UNESCO. He enjoyed his time there, he traveled a lot and was given increasing responsibilities, but he missed being away from active scientific work. When the offer came from Houston, he could not refuse it.
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Pierre Victor Auger (1899–1993), Director of the Department of Sciences for UNESCO 1948–1959, was one of France’s leading physicists of the twentieth century. He discovered Auger electrons in 1926; he participated in the formation of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and helped organize the European Organization for Nuclear Research at CERN.
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Almond, P.R. (2013). The Unknown Years and UNESCO, Paris, 1944–1948. In: Cobalt Blues. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_5
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