ASSISTANT PROFESSOR APPOINTED

The appointment of Dr. William Duane '93 as Assistant Professor of Physics has just been announced. Professor Duane in the future will devote the greater part of his time to the physiological action of radioactive substances and to the problems in physics directly connected with this subject at the Harvard Medical School. He will also direct the research work of advanced students of physical radioactivity in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory.

Professor Duane received the degree of A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1892, and from Harvard in 1893, the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1895, and the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1897. After six years of study in the Curie Radium Laboratory at Paris, he returned to the University last fall as Research Fellow of the Cancer Commission of Harvard University.