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PROF. ROBERT ALFRED LETTFELDT, professor of economics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johameshing whose untimely death is report rape Town, was born at Birmingham no May 7, 1868 and thus was in his sixtieth year. Lehfeldt's education and pursuit of science was larely the outcome of strenuous personal endeavour. Obtaining a scholarship at St. John's College, Cambridge (1886), he secured a first class in both parts of the Natural Science Tripos. Meanwhile he read for a London degree, eventually taking his D.Sc. in physics. On leaving Cambridge, Lehfeldt occupied a post as demonstrator in physics at the University of Sheffield (then Firth College); later, he became professor of physics at the East London Technical College, remaining there until appointed (1906) to the chair of physics, Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg, a post resigned on his acceptance (1917) of the professorship of economics in the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Prof. R. A. Lehfeldt. Nature 120, 848 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120848a0
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