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Dr. H. Gordon Rule

1943; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 151; Issue: 3841 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/151665b0

1476-4687

Neil Campbell,

Philosophy and History of Science

DR. H. GORDON RULE, reader in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, died on March 15, at the age of fifty-five. After graduating with honours in chemistry at Birkbeck College, London, he carried out research with Prof. Alex McKenzie and then worked for two years under Otto Dimroth in von Baeyer's laboratory in Munich, where he gained his Ph.D. in 1912. Returning to Great Britain, Rule spent a year at Birkbeck College and in 1913 went as an assistant to the University of Edinburgh. In 1921 he was appointed senior lecturer in organic chemistry, a position he held until his death. He was made reader in 1939.