Foundation of Montreal Laboratory
The British Government wanted the Cavendish Laboratory team at the University of Cambridge to be relocated in Chicago, where the American research was being done but the Americans had become very security-conscious. Only one of the six senior scientists in the Cambridge group, which had originated in Paris, was British. They were therefore sent to the Montreal Laboratory.
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