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RECENTLY the Chemistry Department of University College was reinforced on the side of inorganic and physical chemistry by the addition to the staff of Dr. Kathleen Lonsdale ; now organic chemistry in the Department is to be strengthened by the appointment of Prof. E. D. Hughes to the additional chair of chemistry which the Senate of the University has just created. The other professors in the Department are Prof. S. Sugden and Prof. C. K. Ifigold. Prof. Hughes was originally trained in the University of Wales. His first researches Were carried out during 1927–30 at Bangor under the leadership of the late Prof. Kennedy Orton and Dr. H. R. Watson. In 1930 he went to London to work with Prof. Ingold at University College, and in 1934 joined the staff of that College. There he formed an active research group, closely integrated with that of Prof. Ingold. In 1936 he received the Meldola Medal, which is awarded for the most distinguished chemical work carried out under the age of thirty. In 1943 he was appointed professor of chemistry at University College, Bangor, thus succeeding to a chair which his former master, Prof. Orton, was the first to make famous.
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Chemistry at University College, London : Prof. E. D. Hughes. Nature 161, 511 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161511c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161511c0