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Neutrons for Science
September to 10 October 1969. This was held at Saint Maximin, in the monastery attached to the superb church in the little Provencal town. Amongst others the teaching group included de Gennes, Sjölander and Brenig.
During 1970 the number of staff rose from 106 in 1969 to 216, distributed as follows
This table highlights a problem that the ILL has encountered since its inception, and which has not yet been completely solved. The annual report for 1970 contains the following analysis:
The ILL continues to have difficulties in recruiting German staff below university level. The reason is that general workers, laboratory workers, programmers, technicians, and engineers without a degree have little knowledge of a foreign language and consequently greater difficulty to adapting to French life. The main obstacle however lies with this category of personnel, paid on the ILL salary scale, cannot receive salaries as high
as those in the Federal Republic of Germany. The rules concerning the additional indemnities for foreigners adopted by the 8th Steering Committee on 14 April 1970, are insufficient and need improvement. The problem posed by this inadequate expatriation allowance has been the subject of numerous discussions of the Steering Committee.
Total
French
German
Others
Scientists, engineers, executives:(cadre)
81
36
35
10
Thesis students
24
15
6
3
Invited researchers
11
3
2
6
Others
100
87
11
2
95