Four National Research Fellowships Awarded

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28824, 19 February 1959, Page 18

Four National Research Fellowships Awarded

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, February 18.

Four national research fellowships to be taken up this year have been awarded by the Minister in charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr Holloway) on the advice of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

The fellowships have been awarded to three New Zealand applicants—Dr. R. B. Johns, Mr G. R. Stevens, and Mr P. P. Williams—and to one from the United Kingdom, Dr. M. W. Whitehouse. These fellowships are offered annually to graduates of good academic qualifications who have demonstrated their research ability. The New Zealand recipients return to their positions in New Zealand at the conclusion of their fellowship period. One of the four research fellowships may be granted to a graduate of a United Kingdom university for research in New Zealand. This year 17 applications were received from New Zealand graduates and four from graduates of the United Kingdom. Dr. Johns, who is lecturer in chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, already holds the degrees of M.Sc. with first class 'honour*. and PhD. tram Cam-

bridge University. Overseas he will study chemistry under Professor Prelog at Zurich, Switzerland.

Mr Stevens, who gained his M.Sc. degree in 1955 with ,firstclass honours in geology, is an officer of the Geological Survey. He is at present at Cambridge University studying geology under a Shell post-graduate scholarship, and when this scholarship terminates he will, under the fellowship, carry out further geological studies in Europe and North America. Mr Williams, an officer of the Dominion Laboratory, holds an M. Sc. degree with first-class honours in chemistry. He proposes to continue his studies in physical chemistry at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.

Dr. Whitehouse, who holds degrees of 8.A., B.Sc., and D.Phil., from Oxford University, is at present research associate in biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr, Whitehouse has made a special study of aminosugars, and in New Zealand will work at the Plant Chemistry Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Re-