ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 5

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

BRILLIANT STUDENT

RESEARCH WORK AT OXFORD

, (By Telegraph.) (Special, to the "Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day,

The awarding of a post-graduate scholarship in science by the Senate of the University to Mr. S. N. Slater, M.Sc, upon which Mr. Slater proposes to undertake research in organic chemistry at Oxford, marks the culminating point of a brilliant career at the University of Otago. Mr. Slater, who came from Wanganui, entered the University in 1934 and was the bearer of a junior university scholarship. After an outstanding record in pure science and the subjects of ' mathematics, physics, and chemistry, he was awarded a senior scholarship in chemistry towards the end of 1936. In 1937 he pursued a course of study in research which led to his gaining his degree of Master of Science with first class honours. During 1937 he carried out research in organic chemistry involving the synthesis of new compounds, one of the most interesting fields of chemistry today. An account of this research has appeared in the "Journal of the Chemical Society," published in London. During the present year he has carried out research in organic chemistry on a subject connected with essential oils of New Zealand, a particularly important work.

At Oxford*Mr. Slater .will have the distinction of working under Professor Robert Robinson Waynflete, Professor of Chemistry and one of the foremost living organic chemists. Mr. Slater will leave Dunedin on July 17.

■After he obtained his senior scholarship in 1936 Mr. Slater was awarded the Smeaton scholarship, and in March last gained the distinct honour of being awarded a post-graduate scholarship in science by the Senate of the University.