Prof. T. Thorvaldson | Nature

THE issue of the Canadian Journal of Research (Section B, Chemical Sciences) for April 1949 is dedicated to Prof. Thorbergur Thorvaldson by his friends and students on the occasion of his

retirement as director, of the Chemistry Department in the University of Saskatchewan. Prof. Thorvaldson was born in Iceland, but was brought up from childhood in Canada. After graduating in

the University of Manitoba, he worked on thermochemistry and the determination of atomic weights under T. W. Richards and G. P. Baxter at Harvard University. He was awarded his doctorate at

Harvard in 1911, and devoted the next two years to electrochemical and photochemical researches with F. G. Donnan at Liverpool and R. Luther at Dresden, respectively. In 1914 he was made

assistant professor of chemistry in the University of Saskatchewan, and five years later he became head of the Chemistry Department, which he has directed with much distinction for thirty

years. Well known as a teacher of analytical and physical chemistry, he is also widely known for his series of fundamental researches on the chemistry of cement and the preparation and

physico-chemical properties of its constituents. In recognition of his scientific work, Prof. Thorvaldson was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1926, and more recently the

Government of Iceland conferred on him the dignity of a knighthood of the Order of the Falcon.

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