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A DEPARTMENT of Research in Physical Chemistry has been established at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh, to conduct fundamental investigations in its domain for professional and public benefit. Since its beginning, the Mellon Institute has recognized the need of fundamental scientific research as a background and source of stimulus for investigations in applied science. The Institute has therefore supported extensively disinterested investigations planned within the organisation and focused on the study of more basic problems than those usually pursued in researches in applied science or technology. This new Department of Research in Physical Chemistry will supplement the Institute‘s work in pure science, carried on since 1911 and formally organised under the Department of Research in Pure Chemistry in 1926 and the Department of Research in Chemical Physics in 1946. The Department of Research in Pure Chemistry specializes in the organic, biological and pharmaceutical fields. As investigations in pure science are completed, the results are published and widely disseminated. Dr. John R. Bowman, who has been appointed head of the Department of Research in Physical Chemistry, has distinguished himself in applied mathematics, particularly as employed in the analysis of chemical engineering problems, and in petroleum chemistry, especially in his comprehensive original work on distillation. He was born in New York, in 1910, and educated at the University of Pittsburgh and at the California Institute of Technology. Since 1935 he has been at the Mellon Institute, on the multiple fellowship of the Gulf Research and Development Co.
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Physical Chemistry at the Mellon Institute. Nature 161, 89–90 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161089d0
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