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THE friends of the late William Sutherland will welcome this little biography by Prof. Osborne. It is a faithful portrait of the man charmingly conveyed by a judicious selection of incidents from his life. William Sutherland's was a remarkable character, and he was an unexpected product of a new country, where a leisured class scarcely exists. This biographer has done justice to his extraordinary versatility and modesty. Many who valued his society on account of his knowledge and appreciation of literature, painting, and music will, no doubt, be surprised to learn from his biography that he possessed a world-wide reputation as an investigator in molecular physics, and was the author of upwards of fifty papers dealing with some of the fundamental properties of matter.
William Sutherland: A Biography.
By Prof. W. A. Osborne. Pp. 102. (Melbourne: Lothian Book Publishing Co, Pty., Ltd.; London: The British Australasian, 1920.) Price 7s. 6d.
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MARTIN, C. William Sutherland: A Biography . Nature 106, 826 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106826a0
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