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THE tragic death on Aug. 14, 1927, of Bertram B. Boltwood, professor of radiochemistry in Yale University, removes an outstanding scientific personality who played an important part in the rapid expansion of our knowledge of radioactive transformations in the early days of radioactivity. Prof. Boltwood was born on July 27, 1870, in Amherst, Mass. His father, a graduate of Yale, was of English descent, and his mother of Dutch extraction. He entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale in 1889, taking chemistry as his chief subject. After graduation he spent two years at the University of Munich under Prof. Kriiss, paying special attention to analytical methods and to the rare earths. The knowledge and technique thus gained was to prove of great importance in his subsequent researches in radioactive minerals. In 1894 he returned to Yale as an assistant in the chemistry department, and did some research work both in organic and inorganic chemistry. In 1900 he left the University to take up work as a consulting chemist, but continued research in his private laboratory.
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RUTHERFORD, E. Prof. Bertram B. Boltwood. Nature 121, 64–65 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121064a0
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