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Dr. R. S. Tipson and Dr. Warner Carlson have been appointed fellows in the Department of Research in Pure Chemistry in the Mellon Institute. Dr. Tipson was born in Derbyshire in 1906. He was awarded the degree of B.Sc. of the University of Birmingham in 1927 and then engaged in research on the carbohydrates under Prof. W. N. Haworth. Later he conducted an investigation, for the British Empire Cancer Campaign, on the preparation of tobacco tar and determination of its constituents. In 1929 he was appointed to a research fellowship in the department of industrial and cellulose chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where, in collaboration with Prof. Harold Hibbert, he examined the structure of certain bacterial polysaccharides. He went to the United States in 1930 to become a research assistant to Dr. P. A. Levene on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, and in 1926 was promoted to the position of research associate. Dr. Carlson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1913. He pursued his early professional education at the University of Nebraska, from which he obtained the degree of B.S. in chemistry in 1933 and the degree of M.S. in the same field in 1935. A little more than a year was spent at the Iowa State College in biophysical chemistry, after which he transferred to the Ohio State University. At the latter institution he held a research fellowship in the Industrial Research Foundation, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in March 1939 with a thesis entitled “Physiological Studies on the Synthesis of Dextran by Bacteria of the Genus Leuconostoc”.
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New Fellows in Pure Research at Mellon Institute. Nature 144, 507–508 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144507e0
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