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IT has been announced that Dr. Wilson Baker is to succeed Prof. E. L. Hirst as Alfred Capper Pass professor of chemistry in the University of Bristol. Dr. Baker studied in the University of Manchester and, after a period of service in France with the Friends' War Victims Relief Organisation, he obtained the degree of B.Sc. with first-class honours in chemistry in 1921. He then held successively the Mercer scholarship, the Baeyer fellowship and the Dalton scholarship for research in chemistry, and on taking the Ph.D. in 1924 he was appointed assistant lecturer in Manchester. In 1927 he joined the chemistry staff in the University of Oxford and has also held for some time the position of fellow and prælector in chemistry at the Queen's College. He received the degree of D.Sc. (Manchester) in 1933.
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University of Bristol: Chair of Chemistry. Nature 154, 391 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154391a0
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