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MR. HAROLD JAMES PAGE has been appointed principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in succession to Mr. O. T. Faulkner, who retired on August 31. Mr. Page, who will take up his new duties early in 1947, was educated at Southend High School and at the University of London, where he held three scholarships and was prizeman in organic chemistry and gold medallist in physiology; in Berlin under Prof. Willstatter and in Paris at the Institut Pasteur. During 1920–27 he was chief chemist and head of the Chemical Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station. On leaving Rothamsted he became head of the Research Lab oratories at the Imperial Chemical Industries Agricultural Research Station at Jealott's Hill and eventually controller of agricultural research there. In 1936 Mr. Page was appointed director of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, and during the Second World War was interned in Sumatra for three and a half years.
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Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture: Mr. H. J. Page, M.B.E. Nature 158, 410 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158410b0
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