Gets Chemistry Chair

DR. JOHN TURKEVICH '28, a member of the Princeton faculty for nineteen years, has been named Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry, it was recently announced by Dr. Harold W. Dodds, president of the university.

Dr. Turkevich has been a pioneer in such new research as developing the use of the electron microscope and radar techniques in his investigations of catalysis. He has served as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, the Army War College and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has also been an adviser to the British, French and American Governments.

Following graduation from Dartmouth, Dr. Turkevich taught at theCollege as an instructor from 1928through 1931. He received the M.A. degree from Dartmouth in 1930; the M.A.and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton during the following four years. He wasawarded a Cramer Fellowship by Dartmouth for the year 1935-36. In 1945 hewas cited by the War Department forhis contribution as a research chemistto the atom bomb program, and in 1953was elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society.