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THE National Coal Board announces that Prof. H. L. Riley, professor of inorganic and physical chemistry in the University of Durham, has been appointed director of carbonization research under the scientific member of the Board, Sir Charles Ellis. Prof. Riley studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, and took an honours degree in inorganic chemistry; he was awarded the Frank Haddon Prize. He held a Beit Research Fellowship during 1921–23, and remained as lecturer at the imperial College until he went in 1932 to King's College, University of Durham. Prof. Riley's research work at Newcastle has been devoted to the study of coking problems, and he is recognized as an expert in this field. He is also honorary secretary and director of research to the Northern Coke Research Committee, and is a member of the British Coking Research Association. He is forty-seven years of age.
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National Coal Board: Director of Carbonization Research. Nature 158, 867 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158867b0
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