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SCIENCE and industry alike have suffered a loss by the recent death, at Southall, of MR. S. H. BLICHFELDT, a director of the Maypole Margarine Co. Mr. Blichfeldt was only forty-four years of age. He was of Danish birth, and took up a position as chemist at the Maypole works at Southall in 1906 after having worked for some years at Jorgensen's laboratory in Copenhagen. He was a strong advocate of the application of science to industry, and throughout his work demonstrated the importance of scientific methods in the factory, and the manufacture of margarine in the Maypole Co.'s works was gradually placed upon a really scientific basis as the result of his labours. Mr. Blichfeldt's abilities as a chemist and bacteriologist were widely known to the scientific world, and it is pleasing to note that the Maypole Co. recognised the value of research in industry, and appointed him a director of the company in 1916.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 148 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107148b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107148b0