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ABSTRACT 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. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a

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