Chemistry at University College, Dundee : Dr. D. H. Everett

Abstract

THE chair of chemistry at University College, Dundee, which became vacant last year when Prof. Wynne-Jones went to King‘s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been filled by the appointment of Dr. D. H. Everett, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Dr. Everett was educated at the University of Reading under Prof. Wynne-Jones, and his first research work was done there and at Dundee on the electrochemistry of non-aqueous solutions. In 1939 he was elected to a Ramsay fellowship and went to Balliol College, Oxford, to work on reaction kinetics with Mr. R. P. Bell. This programme was interrupted by the War, and Dr. Everett took an active part in scientific war-work, at first in a team of workers in Oxford and later in other fields of work which took him eventually to India. He returned to Oxford with an Imperial Chemical Industries fellowship, and after a short period as a lecturer in Dundee was elected to an official fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1947. He has already done distinguished work on the physical chemistry of both aqueous and non-aqueous solutions, and will thus continue the tradition established by Prof. Wynne-Jones in Dundee.