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Albert Abraham Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852, at Strelno in Posen, now restored to Poland. When he was two years old, he was taken by his parents, Samuel Michelson and Rosalie (Przlubska), to the United States, and, after some fifteen years spent in Virgina City, Nevada, where his brother Charles was born, San Francisco became their home. There his sister Miriam, the author, was born, and the boy attended the high school. He was given, in unusual circumstances, an appointment in the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and after graduating in 1873 he became a midshipman in the U.S. Navy for two years and was afterwards appointed instructor in physics and chemistry in the Naval Academy in 1875, holding the appointment until 1879. His next year was spent in the Nautical Almanac Office in Washington, and then he studied for two years at the College of France, and at Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1882 he became Professor of Physics in the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, Ohio. After seven years he went as Professor of Physics to Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and remained there until 1892. He was then appointed Professor at the head of the Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Chicago ; this appointment he held until shortly before his death, which occurred on May 9, 1931. He married Miss Edna Stanton of Lake Forest, Illinois, in 1899, and they had a son and two daughters. This in brief contains the history of his official appointments : how he filled the various posts is another matter.

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Upper Silesian Railway Employee Case.

State Succession — In Matters of Administration — Respect of Acquired Rights — Distinction between Official Appointment and a Contract of Private Law.

Obituaries

THE Chemiker Zeitung of November 4 records the death, on October 25, at the age of seventy-two, of Dr. Carl Huggenberg, one of the pioneers among German public analysts. Huggenberg's name is associated with the well-known Analytical Institute founded by him at Chemnitz, where most of his public work was carried out. Born of Swiss parentage at Winterthur, he studied first at Zurich and later at Wiirzburg, where he became assistant to J. Wislicenus, and graduated in 1876. During the following three years he held an official appointment as analyst of foodstuffs in the Canton of Zurich. This special branch of applied chemistry was still in its infancy at that time, but in all the German towns, associations were being formed with the object of fighting against the adulteration of food. In 1882, the association which had been founded five years previously at Chemnitz by L. Friedrich, offered Huggenberg the direction of its laboratory. Here he found full scope for the development of his natural powers. His analytical skill, his comprehensive knowledge of chemistry, and his practical insight into the needs of industry and commerce were invaluable assets to him, and his opinion on technical matters was soon widely sought. His interest in technology led him to make numerous valuable investigations in oils, fats, and soaps, and he made numerous contributions to scientific literature on the refractometrv of soap-fats, the recovery of waste fat, and on soap analysis. Until 1902 he also held the post of food controller at Chemnitz. In 1910 he retired to Zurich.

The Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. A list of official chemical appointments

The Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. A list of official chemical appointments

A list of official chemical appointments

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A list of official chemical appointments held in Great Britain and Ireland, in India and the colonies

A list of official chemical appointments held in Great Britain and Ireland, in India and the colonies

Victor Meyer

VICTOR MEYER was born on September 8, 1848, and died on August 8, 1897. He studied chemistry at Heidelberg, under Bunsen, and at Berlin, under Baeyer. His first official appointment was at Stuttgart, whence he was called, in 1872, to the chair of Chemistry at the Zürich Polytechnic. In 1885 he went to Göttingen, and in 1889, on the retirement of Bunsen, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg. The later years of his life were clouded by ill-health. His almost abnormal mental activity allowed him no rest, and he suffered greatly from insomnia. To the effects of this malady on a highly sensitive nervous organisation must be ascribed his tragic death in the midst of a career which, brilliant though it was, gave promise of stilt greater things in the future.