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DB. F. C. STEWAUD, reader in plant physiology in Birkbeck College, University of London, has recently left for the United States to take up a temporary appointment as research associate in the University of Chicago, where he is to develop certain aspects of plant physiology and biochemistry in which Prof. E. J. Kraus and the Chicago Department of Botany are interested. Dr. Steward has been given leave of absence by Birkbeck College for this purpose, and the appointment is a sequel to the destruction in an air raid of the research laboratory in plant physiology at Birkbeck, which had been largely equipped by the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Steward has been engaged since 1941 with the Ministry of Aircraft Production, where he developed a department dealing with statistics concerning the determination and forecasting of Royal Air Force requirements. It seemed that his return to botanical research would be delayed indefinitely by the destruction of his laboratory, so that the offer of Prof. Kraus has rendered a real service to botanical inquiry.
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Dr. F. C. Steward. Nature 155, 448 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155448a0
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