Science and Engineering Research Council
<body> (SERC) Formerly the largest of the five research councils funded
by the British Government through the Office of Science and Technology. SERC
funded higher education research in science and engineering, including computing
and was responsible for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Oxford; the
Daresbury Laboratory, near Warrington; the Royal Greenwich Observatory at
Cambridge and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
In April 1994 SERC was split into the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. SERC's remote
sensing efforts have been transferred to the Natural Environment RC and its
biotechnology efforts merged with the Agriculture and Food RC to make the new
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC. The two major SERC laboratories -
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory are now independent.
http://unixfe.rl.ac.uk/serc/serc.html.
(1994-12-15)
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