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THOMAS MARTIN LOWRY, who died at Cambridge on November 2, came of an old Cornish family which had been long connected with the Methodist Church; he was born at Low Moor, Bradford, Yorks, on October 26, 1874, the second son of the Rev. E. P. Lowry, senior Wesleyan chaplain and staff officer at Aldershot. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and thence passed to the Central Technical College, South Kensington, in 1893, with a Clothworkers' scholarship, and was ultimately awarded the fellowship of the City and Guilds of London Institute. From 1896 until 1913 he was an assistant to Prof. H. E. Armstrong; in 1904–13, was lecturer in chemistry, Westminster Training College, and from 1913 until 1920 head of the chemical department in Guy's Hospital Medical School; in 1920 he was appointed to the newly created chair of physical chemistry in the University of Cambridge, a position which he held at his death. He married a daughter of the late Rev. C. Wood in 1904 and leaves two sons and a daughter.
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POPE, W. Prof. T. M. Lowry, C.B.E., F.R.S.. Nature 138, 912–913 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138912a0
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