[Q] You now reach the end of the second Commonwealth year, and having been a Fellow you must go back to Great Britain?

Yes, and the sad thing was at that moment I got an offer of a job from Rabi which I would have given my right arm to accept. I mean, that was exactly what I wanted, to go to Columbia and be there among all these great experimenters, really see the experiments. It would have been just the most wonderful thing for me. But I had made my promise that I would go back to England, so I went back to England. I said, 'Sorry, I can't do this,' so Norman Cole got the job instead of me which was always a great sorrow. Anyway, so I went back to England and there I had an offer from Peierls in Birmingham to go for two years with a Royal Society Fellowship, and I spent two years in Birmingham.