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WE regret to record the death on September 30 of Prof. Ross Aiken Gortner, chief of the Division of Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota, at the age of fifty-seven. Dr. Gortner was born at O'Neill, Nebraska, on March 20, 1885. After graduation from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1907 he obtained his M. S. degree from the University of Toronto in 1908 and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1909. He went to the University of Minnesota in 1914 as associate professor in the Division of Soils from the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. He transferred to the Division of Biochemistry of the University of Minnesota in 1916 as associate professor and was made full professor and chief of that division in 1917, which position he held at his death.
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Prof. R. A. Gortner. Nature 150, 570 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150570a0
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