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As announced elsewhere in this issue (p. 168), Dr. B. D. Haworth, lecturer, in chemistry at King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been appointed professor of chemistry in the University of Sheffield after graduating at the University of Manchester in 1919, and spending some time there working with Prof. Lapworth. Dr. Haworth, having been awarded in 1921 the distinction of an 1851 Exhibition, proceeded to Oxford, where he began his work with the late Prof. W. H. Perkin, jun., on isoquinoline alkaloids, leading to the synthesis of cryptopine and protopine; and to important derivatives of the apomorphine series. This work received the well-merited recognition of the doctorate in science from Manchester in 1930. Since 1927 Dr. Haworth has been a member of the staff of the Chemistry Deparment of King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the University of Durham, where, besides carrying on his work on alkaloids, he has had marked success in the investigation of naturally occurring derivatives of phenanthrene. In this connexion his general method for the synthesis of phenanthrenes has had a wide application. During recent years he has added materially to our knowledge of the structure of natural phenolic resins. He has displayed abilities of a high order as a teacher, both of undergraduates and research students, and has, for some years, been senior tutor in science. Besides these academic interests, Dr. Haworth is a keen and accomplished cricketer. He leaves behind him at Newcastle a host of friends won by his sterling qualities, and their good wishes go with him to Sheffield for the future.
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Prof. R. D. Haworth. Nature 144, 144 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144144a0
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