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BY the death of J. W. Rodger a young life of great scientific promise has been cut short. He was born at Stewarton, N.B., on December 11, 1867, and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy, under Dr. Dickie, and at the Royal College of Science, London. His college career was interrupted by illness, but he won all the chief prizes, and took a very active part in the management of the college societies. In 1889 he was appointed assistant in the research laboratory, with the result that in the course of the next five or six years a number of papers were published, of which he was joint author with Dr. Thorpe. One of the most important of these, βOn the relations between the viscosity of liquids and their chemical nature,β was printed in the Philosophical Transactions, and was the subject of the Bakerian Lecture in 1894. By a kindly arrangement the lecture was delivered by the younger of the two authors, and no one who was present is likely to have forgotten how well Rodger acquitted himself of his task. It was an admirable piece of exposition. He spoke quickly, but with perfect distinctness; with modesty, but without apparent nervousness or hesitation. Every point was made clear, and at the end it was the general opinion that the Bakerian Lecture had rarely, if ever, been better given than by the youngest Bakerian Lecturer.
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R., A. James Wyllie Rodger, A.R.C.S. Nature 56, 129 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056129b0
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