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DR. H. LEVINSTEIN, a past president of tjie Society of Chemical Industry, recently delivered before the Institute of Chemistry a discourse entitled “The Chemist as a Directing Force in Industry”. While emphasising that there are other branches of special knowledge besides chemistry which are necessary to business, Dr. Levinstein declared that there can be no better training for industry in general—not alone for the chemical industry—than a sound training in science. Too few in Great Britain have had such a training; too few of our business men, our politicians and our very able civil servants. Yet mere knowledge or talent is not enough; “it is the man that matters”. It is not necessary to be a chemist to control even a dyestuff manufacturing business; it is merely a great advantage to be one. Chemists must not be regarded as one class, or as a class apart. Chemical training is varied, but it cannot be more than an excellent preparation; what can eventually be accomplished depends on the individual or upon the opportunities which he can find or make.
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The Chemist in Industry. Nature 133, 117–118 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133117a0
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