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DR. E. W. R. STEACIE has been appointed director of the Division of Chemistry, National Research Council of Canada, in succession to Dr. G. S. Whitby, who recently resigned to accept the post of director of the Chemical Laboratories of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Great Britain. Dr. Steacie, who will assume his new duties in July, has been a member of the teaching staff of McGill University for the last ten years, being at the present time associate professor of chemistry. During this period most of his time has been spent in the supervision of research by graduate students working on problems in the fields of hydrocarbon chemistry, combustion, chemical kinetics and photochemistry, in which work he is recognized as an authority. Dr. Steacie's studies have been directed largely along lines of fundamental research on problems of industrial importance, such as gaseous combustion, catalysis, pyrolysis of organic compounds, gases in metals, and high-pressure reactions. He has published many scientific papers and treatises, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics.
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Dr. E. W. R. Steacie. Nature 143, 847 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143847a0
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