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DR. ANDRÉ KLING died on August 8, 1947, at the age of seventy-five. Receiving his education and early training in Paris, he .was appointed in 1911 director of its municipal laboratory. The frauds in food and wine, to restrain which the laboratory had been founded under Charles Girard, were now declining, but the First World War opened to the laboratory new fields of activity. The Explosives Service, initiated by Girard during the anarchist bomb panics, was now developed for the disposal of unexploded German missiles; and Kling‘s leadership was an example of personal courage no less than of professional ability. His experience and success ‘in this field led to his appointment as scientific adviser to the French General Staff. Working in this capacity at the front line on explosives and war gases, he earned the Croix de Guerre and membership of the Legion of Honour.
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Dr. André Kling. Nature 161, 87 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161087b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161087b0