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DR. AUBREY F. BURSTALL has been elected professor of engineering and dean of the faculty of engineering in the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Burstall is a son of the late Prof. F. W. Burstall, who was professor of mechanical engineering in the University of Birmingham in 1896-1931. Dr. Burstall, who is thirty-four years of age, received his education at King Edward's School (New Street), Birmingham, at the University of Birmingham and at St. John's College, Cambridge. The results of his work on the combustion of various gaseous fuels in the high-speed internal combustion engine were published in a series of papers before the Institution of Automobile Engineers. Dr. Burstall joined in 1925 the staff of Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates Ltd. at Billingham, which in 1928 became a constituent company of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. He held various positions of increasing responsibility on the engineering staff and in 1930 was appointed deputy chief engineer of the Billing-ham Factory. In 1933 he resigned his position to become technical adviser to the Aluminium Plant and Vessel Company of Wandsworth, London. The Engineering School at the University of Melbourne, to which Dr. Burstall is going, is one of the largest in Australia, the students numbering nearly two hundred. During the last two years of the four year course the undergraduates specialize in either civil, mechanical, mining, electrical or metallurgical engineering before taking their degrees. Dr. Burstall succeeds Prof. Wilfrid Kernot, who is retiring in March at the end of the present academic year.
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Prof. A. F. Burstall. Nature 138, 1003 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381003a0
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