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WE regret to learn from Australia of the death, at the end of January, of Dr. J. L. Glasson, at the age of thirty-four years. Dr. Glasson was a student of the University of Adelaide, where he worked under Sir William Bragg, and from that University he received his doctor's degree. He succeeded in winning a travelling research scholarship of the Exhibition of 1851, and with it came to this country. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1909 as an advanced student, and, going to the Cavendish Laboratory, did valuable research work under Sir J. J. Thomson. In 1912 he was appointed lecturer in physics in the University of Tasmania, Hobart, and while there he did valuable work for the Electrolytic Zinc Co. and for the Tasmanian Carbide Co. This post he resigned in 1919, returning to Cambridge for research for a couple of years, after which he accepted an appointment as lecturer in physics in the University of Melbourne, which he held at the time of his death.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 111, 506 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111506c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111506c0