Interview with D.C Rose wherein he discusses: minutes of the physics division staff meetings, the Thistle/Eggleston histories, being a part of the Inner Ring with ballistics and atmospheric electricity, his only fundamental pre-war research project, his work being written up in internal NRC documents, biology division seminars, his winning the studentship, his boyhood knowledge of the NRC, the Queen's University/NRC dispute, the council grants policy, Rose being the conveyor of grants from 1948 until his retirement, J.B. Marshall's interest in the history of grants, going to the Cavendish lab in 1924, one year spent at Bristol University, returning to Queen's University as a lecturer, waiting for a job at the NRC, the hearsay in 1928 that the site on Sussex Drive was offered by Mackenzie King, getting his job at the NRC, the employments of unqualified men, the Cavendish lab, trivate basic research, being the first physics staffer, and his arrival at the NRC, choosing staff, largely unplanned assignments, other assignments, Rose's first wheat grading assignment, keeping busy with applied research assignments, charged film work, the Canadian Journal of Research, working on film charges with the RCAF, Dr. H.M. Tory, personal freedom at work, staff dynamics, General A.G.L. McNaughton, rose's ballistics work, photoelectric effects, counter-chronographs, patenting policies, records of assignments kept, Rose aiding on various committees, nuclear physics, atmospheric electricity, cosmic ray research, research on the vibration in Lockheed airliners, vibration records, RCAF flights, depression cutbacks, relocation of the Engineering lab, the value of pre-war research, the administrative help, Boyle's reputation, first meeting Boyle, Boyle's staffing contributions, the mission to the U.K. on aircraft radar, government procedures and red tape, the physics department in the 1930s, how Tory's interesting wheat fairviews governed the biology division, McNaughton's appointment as president, the chemistry division's work on conducting rubber, Rose being pushed into early plastics research, the “phony-war” in 1939-41, finances, work during the war, Rose's work with the Army, 1940 Ship degaussing at Halifax, Rose being transferred to DND, Stuart's resignation, laying ground for Army permanent research system, Goodspeed DRB History, Canadian Army Operations research achievements, British and Canadian relations, Herzberg's war work on explosives spectroscopy, NR Labs policies, freedom of research, separate groups being set up and monthly divisional meetings cancelled, the establishment of the applied physics division, Rose's relationship with C.J. Mackenzie, Divisional grant screening, Service terms for NR labs and councilors, pre-war and post-war lab management, the introduction of post-doctorate fellows, publishing in the Canadian Research Journal, successive presidents of the NRC, the precedent of promoting the vice president to president, procedure for NRC decision from 1948-1968, and postwar university salary subsidies. <2h 4mn>
