TRIBUTE TO BAIRD
Sit,—The death of John Logic Baird means that we have lost perhaps the greatest, though certainly the least publicised, scientist of our time. It was a great disappointment to me, and, I believe, to many others also, to find that in the recent Honours List, whilst his country honoured the
the economists and the pioneers of atomic-bomb research, he whose achievement was essentially one for peace-time should be ignored at this very moment when television is again being established as an everyday possibility and amenity of our life. I personally believe that discovery for its own sake rather than for the sake of worldly laurels is the quality of all great scientists. If this be true or not, we cannot now remedy our omission ; we can pay but a tribute of regret, and leave it to historians of future days to rank the name of Baird with those of Faraday, Edison and
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