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AWARDS are made from time to time from the interest on the Beilby memorial fund to British investigators in science for original work, preference being given to the investigation of problems connected with fuel economy, chemical engineering, and metallurgy. The administrators of the fund have just awarded 105 each to Mr. W. J. Rees, of the Department of Applied Science in the University of Sheffield, and Dr. W. R. Schoeller, metallurgist, Messrs. D. C. Griffith and Co., London. Mr. Rees was educated at George Dixon Technical School, Birmingham, and at the Royal College of Science, London. In 1901, he became assistant to Dr. Walter Rosenhain, in the laboratories of Messrs. Chance Bros. and Co., Ltd., at Birmingham; in 1906-17, he was chief chemist to the same company, and since 1917 he has been lecturer in charge of the Department of Refractory Materials in the University of Sheffield. He is an honorary member of the British Cast Iron Research Association, to which he was elected in recognition of services rendered in connexion with research on moulding sands; and hon. secretary of the Refractories Association of Great Britain. Dr. Schoeller was born at Antwerp and educated in Belgian State schools at Antwerp and Tournai. He studied chemistry at the Polytechnic Institutes at Darmstadt and Stuttgart, and at the University of Greifswald, where he obtained the degree of Ph.D. in 1902. In the following year, he joined the staff of Messrs. D. C. Griffith and Co., assayers to the Bank of England, and in 1909 was naturalised as a British subject. After experience in the United States, South America, China, and elsewhere, he rejoined Messrs. D. C. Griffith and Co., specialising in rare metals. From 1913 onwards, he has devoted much of his spare time to original research work, especially on tantalum and niobium. He is joint author with Mr. A. R. Powell, of The Analysis of Minerals and Ores of the Rarer Elements”.
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Beilby Memorial Awards. Nature 130, 53 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130053b0
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