WOOD CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
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A young New Zealand chemist has left the Dominion for the United States to study the wood chemistry of Pinus radiata, in its application to papermaking. He is Mr D. J. Brasch, of the organic and wood-chemistry section of the Dominion Laboratory. Born and educated in Wellington, Mr Brasch graduated M.Sc. with honours in chemistry from Victoria University College in 1952, after research on one aspect of the chemical structure of the drug picrotoxin. Under a Fulbright travel grant he will take up a research fellowship at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wisconsin, which was obtained for him by the International Institute of Education, New York. At the Institute of Paper Chemistry he will work under Dr. Louis E. Wise, a world authority on wood chemistry, and his research will be on the chemical structure of a hemicellulose fraction from Pinus radiata grown in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27463, 24 September 1954, Page 11
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