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DR. ROBERT C. HOCKETT, associate professor of organic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been appointed scientific director of the Sugar Research Foundation. Following his graduation from Ohio State University, Dr. Hockett served there as graduate assistant in analytical chemistry. As a fellow of the National Research Council, he went to the National Institute of Health, United States Public Health Service, where he worked with Dr. C. S. Hudson. Dr. Hockett later became associate technologist of the Institute of Health and served in that position for several years. Since 1935, Dr. Hockett has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has developed a research programme on the chemistry of carbohydrates. Mr. Joseph F. Abbott, president of the Sugar Research Foundation, said that this appointment is the first step in a new scientific programme to extend knowledge of the role of sugar and other carbohydrates in the human body and also of the chemical transformations to which sugars can be subjected. It is anticipated that such chemical studies, both fundamental and applied, will eventually indicate new industrial uses of sugar and its derivatives. Dr. Hockett has been granted five years leave of absence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to carry on his new work with the Foundation.
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Sugar Research Foundation. Nature 153, 18 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153018b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153018b0