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THE announcement that Prof. W. E. S. Turner is to retire from the chair of glass technology in the University of Sheffield, which he has held since 1920, comes as rather a shock. Prof. Turner's name has become so closely associated with the application of scientific principles to glass manufacture that it is hard to visualize the industry without this association. In 1914, Prof. Turner was responsible for the setting up of a Scientific Advisory Committee of the University of Sheffield to deal with technical problems arising in the local industries and, following on this work, was led to prepare a report on conditions in the glass industry. This report also made recommendations to the University Council, with the result that a Department of Glass Technology was set up in June 1915. This work was organized by Dr. Turner, as he then was, and in 1920 the Council converted this Department to a chair of the University. From that date to the present, Prof. Turner has made and established a name in connexion with the glass industry which will stand for all time.
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Glass Technology at Sheffield: Prof. W. E. S. Turner, O.B.E., F.R.S.. Nature 155, 420 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155420a0
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