DISCUSS ADDITIONS TO DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY

G. P. Baxter, Theodore W. Lyman Professor of Chemistry, was interviewed yesterday concerning recent additions to the staff of the Division of Chemistry. It is felt that the appointments of G. B. Kistiakowsky as assistant professor and of O. K. Rice as an instructor are an indication of the ever-increasing interdependence of the subjects of chemistry and physics. These new members of the Division, who are interested in modern physical chemistry, are expected to collaborate with Associate Professors J. C. Slater and E. G. Kemble of the Physics Department, who have devoted much of their attention to the same subject.

In America the field of physical chemistry has been especially developed at Princeton, the University of California, and the California Institute of Technology. Until his death two years ago Professor Theodore W. Richards was the leader at Harvard in this field.

Kistiakowsky, who was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1900, was a research assistant at the University of Berlin for two years before coming to Princeton in 1925 as an international research fellow. He has devoted himself principally to work in photochemistry.

Rice, who took his S.B. degree at the University of California in 1924, was a national research fellow there from 1926 to 1929, specializing in the field of quantum mechanics.

Another important addition to the chemical staff, in the subject of organic chemistry, is that of L. F. Fieser as assistant professor.