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ALFRED WILLIAM NASH, professor of oil engineering and refining at the University of Birmingham, died in his fifty-sixth year at his home in Solihull on March 14. After training as a mechanical engineer at King's College, London, he had some experience in dock construction in Hong-Kong, and shortly afterwards joined the (then) Anglo-Persian Oil Company and took part in the building of the great refinery in Abadan, South Persia. In 1913 he proceeded to the Caucasian oil territory and remained in Russia for more than nve years, chiefly engaged in field production problems.
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DUNSTAN, A. Prof. A. W. Nash. Nature 149, 432–433 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149432a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149432a0