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FIVE years ago, Prof. Alexander Findlay published a characteristically comprehensive and interesting monograph on “The Teaching of Chemistry in the Universities of Aberdeen”. His own approaching retirement from the chair of chemistry at Aberdeen, a chair which he has occupied with distinction for twenty-one years, inspires the thought that when some future scientific historian undertakes the task of bringing this volume up to date, he will find Prof. Findlay a subject as fascinating and as significant as any of his predecessors. A graduate himself of the University of Aberdeen and a research student under Ostwald at Leipzig, Findlay became recognized, very early in his career, as one of the leading promoters of physical chemistry in Great Britain and, before returning to his alma mater, held the positions of lecturer in physical chemistry in the University of Birmingham and professor of chemistry at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Prof. Alexander Findlay. Nature 145, 654 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145654b0
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