21 SEPTEMBER 1929, Page 3

Professor Perkin We regret to record the death of Professor

W. IT. Perkin, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford. He used to say that he owed nearly all his inspiration to his education in organic chemistry at Munich. He there acquired an immense respect for research and a proper contempt for any chemist who was indifferent to it. After the appointment of this great chemist to the Waynflete Professorship the study of chemistry expanded greatly at Oxford.

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