Professor Brian Cox, the television scientist, has joined the battle to save the Royal Institution’s historic headquarters from being sold and this afternoon will meet the institution’s management and influential figures from the world of science.
The Royal Institution confirmed earlier this month that it was considering selling its imposing home in Mayfair, West London, where it has been based for more than 200 years, because of mounting debts. A group of eminent scientists including Nobel laureates and broadcasters have mounted a vigorous campaign to prevent the sale going ahead.
The group, which includes Professor Colin Blakemore, the Oxford neuroscientist, Lord Winston, the fertility expert, and Dame Nancy Rothwell, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, is expected to be briefed by Sir