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THE research professorship in animal health endowed by the generosity of Lord Milford at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. Alastair N. Worden. Mr. Worden, who is twenty-eight, was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, the Royal Veterinary College, London, and St. John's College, Cambridge. After experience of veterinary practice for more than two years with Mr. J. Pickup, of Barnet, Mr. Worden was awarded in 1938 a Ministry of Agriculture studentship in animal health, spending the first year of his tenure of this studentship in the Division of Nutrition of the Lister Institute, the second in the Bacteriological and Biochemical Departments of the Ministry of Agriculture's Veterinary Laboratory at Weybridge and the third in the Department of Agriculture at the University of Cambridge. He also spent some time at the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen. In 1941 he was appointed to the Biochemical Department of the Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge. His research has dealt mainly with human and animal nutrition and with the relation of nutrition to infectious diseases. He is a member of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee on which he represents the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare and he is secretary of the Institute of Animal Behaviour.
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Research in Animal Health at Aberystwyth. Nature 155, 477 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155477c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155477c0