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THE retirement has been announced at the end of the present academic year of Prof. T. Slater Price from the chair of chemistry at the Heriot-Watt Technical College, Edinburgh. Dr. Slater Price's early work was concerned with the oxidation of iodide by persulphates, with electro-analysis, and with the electrolytic method for the preparation of organic disulphides and diselinides. His interest in the oxyacids of sulphur continued, and he later provided some of the first evidence for the structure of Caro's acid. In 1903 he was appointed head of the Chemistry Department of the Birmingham Municipal Technical College, a position which he held with great success until 1920. There was, however, one interruption to this work at Birmingham; this was caused by his appointment, as Lieut.-Commander, R.N.V.R., to the Naval Experimental Station during 1916-19, where he carried out many valuable investigations on smoke screens, etc., for which he was afterwards given the O.B.E.(MiL). Returning from this excursion, Dr. Slater Price met the chaos produced by a great influx of demobilized service men to technical classes. His Chemistry Department included pharmacy, so that the number of students to be accommodated was very large. However, order was soon established and the teaching work went on smoothly, though its demands prevented any rapid extension of the researches on complex cobaltammines upon which Slater Price had been engaged for several years.
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Prof. T. Slater Price, O.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 145, 926 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145926a0
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