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THE new building of the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, will be dedicated on May 5-9. At the formal dedication of the building in the afternoon of May 6 in Carnegie Music Hall, with Dr. Weidlein presiding, addresses will be given by three Nobel prizemen, namely, Dr. Irving Langmuir (chemistry), Dr. H. C. Urey (physical chemistry), and Dr. W. P. Murphy (medicine). Brief addresses will also be given by Andrew W. Mellon and Richard K. Mellon, representing the founders. A symposium on “Recent Progress in Science” will be held on May 7. Speakers will include Dr. G. O. Curme, jun., Dr. F. B. Jewett, Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. W. W. G. Maclachlan. The new building, which has taken six years to complete, is to be dedicated to science and humanity in honour of Andrew W. and Richard B. Mellon, founders of the institution, who in 1911 gave support to the research fellowship system advanced by the late Robert Kennedy Duncan by establishing a specific department at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1913 placed the system on a permanent basis with the organization of Mellon Institute.
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The Mellon Institute. Nature 139, 750–751 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139750d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139750d0