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PROF. A. W. BscICKERTON, whose death on Jan. 23, at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, is announced, was a well-known figure in astronomical and other scientific circles. He was born at Alton, Hants, on Jan. 7, 1842, and educated at the Grammar School there and the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, of which he became an Associate. After leaving the College he was appointed organiser of science classes at the Hartley Institute (now University College), Southampton, and in 1874 went to Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand, as professor of chemistry and physics. While there he had among his students Sir Ernest Rutherford, who in the Times of Jan. 25, pays an appreciative tribute to the stimulating lectures given by his old teacher, and remarks: “His powers of popular exposition, his enthusiasm and versatility were of great value in promoting an interest in science in a young community.”
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Prof. A. W. Bickerton. Nature 123, 173 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123173b0
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