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IN a few months time, Rothamsted, the world's oldest and most famous agricultural research station, will celebrate the centenary of its foundation and another period of useful activity will begin, though under a new director, Dr. William Gammie Ogg. Dr. Ogg is the son of a farmer and is known to farm successfully himself, so that he may be described as close to the soil. It is known that in future Rothamsted will concentrate more closely on soil problems, extending what has been discovered at Harpenden and Woburn to other types of soil, so that the new director is appropriately a soil specialist. Dr. Ogg studied at Aberdeen under Japp, began research in agriculture there, but on the outbreak of war in 1914 became a chemist in the explosives industry, ending up as chief chemist and works manager at Greetland. After 1918 he came back to agricultural research and spent a year in Canada and the United States. On his return he went as a research student to Christ's College, Cambridge, and for four years he was technical adviser to Messrs. Chivers.
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Rothamsted Experimental Station : New Director. Nature 151, 722 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151722a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151722a0