Abstract

DR. WERNER STEINER, born 1896 at Cologne, died after a brief illness on September 10 at Durham. From 1926 onwards he was Prof. M. Bodenstein's assistant in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Berlin and in charge there of the teaching and research work in spectroscopy. He published some thirty valuable papers on this and related subjects, several of them in English journals. After leaving Germany in 1933 he worked for a while on similar lines at Cambridge in the laboratories of the late Prof. T. M. Lowry. In 1936 he accepted the position of a science master at the Gordonstoun School in Morayshire, and in January 1941 at the Durham School. Here, as well as in his University career, he gave of his best. Besides science his main interest was divinity, and his last contribution was to a theological journal.

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