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Chapter 6: The start of research activities and the arrival of the British
• Liquids, gases and amorphous solids
• Defects in solids. • Chemistry
• Biology
Each subcommittee thus matches one of the colleges of the Institut. This system was very effective and persists today.
4. The initial rental and subsequent purchase (as second- hand) of the DEC PDP-KI10 central computer. The computer system was in service from 1973 to 1982 and usefully replaced the link to the computer centre of the university.
The change of director had been quickly followed (though unlinked) by a change of the administrator. Wolfgang Hasenclever was replaced from November 1973 by Adalbert Plattenteich (01/11/73 to 31/12/77), who had represented the German Ministry of Research on the steering committee. All administrators were German, as all heads of the reactor department were French. The administrators were then Wolfgang Grillo (1/1/78 to 30/4/83), Cristoph Eitner (1/5/83 to 30/4/88), Hans-Martin Spilker (1/6/88 to 31/7/94), Sigurd Lettow (1/8/94 to 31/7/01), Norbert König (17/09/01 to 16/09/06). [2018 addition: Amin Saidoun (17/09/06 to 31/08/11), Martin Walter (interim: 1/09/11 to 31/02/12), Manuel Rodriguez-Castellano (01/04/12 to 30/09/16) and Alexandre Durand (1/10/2016 - )]
I have already briefly described the first instruments under construction. Table 6.1 below, taken from the activity report for 1972 shows the degree of progress made on their installation. The last column shows the date on which the instrument entered (or
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