Abstract
Leslie Fleetwood Bates, physicist and Lancashire-Spencer Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham (formerly University College of Nottingham) from 1936 until his retirement in 1964, died on 20 January 1978. He will be remembered for his experimental contributions to many aspects of ferromagnetism, for his active interest in physics education, for his devoted service on many committees of learned and professional societies and of government departments and for his monograph
Modern magnetism
, which, when it was first published in 1939, filled an important gap in the list of books for undergraduates.
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