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DR. D. T. A. TOWNEND has been appointed Livesey professor of coal gasand fuel industries in the University of Leeds. After nearly four years of war service, Dr. Townend entered the East London (now the Queen Mary)College, London. He graduated in 1920 and then proceeded to the Department of Chemical Technology at the Imperial College of Science, London, for post-graduate study and research under Prof. W. A. Bone. He has since collaborated with Prof. Bone more particularly in investigating gaseous explosions at high initial pressures. Dr. Townend was awarded successively a Salters' research fellowship and a Rockefeller international research fellowship. He has been largely concerned in the equipment and organization of the High Pressure Laboratories at the Imperial College. Dr. Townend, who is a recognized teacher in the University of London, is an authority on combustion and high-pressure problems and has published many books and articles both independently and in collaboration with his colleagues at South Kensington.
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Dr. D. T. A. Townend. Nature 141, 964 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141964a0
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