ARRIVAL OF SCIENTIST
TO JOIN STAFF OF OTAGO UNIVERSITY A DISTINGUISHED CAREER (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 17. His interest first directed towards New Zealand through the impressions gained in articles contributed to a scientific journal in Vienna by a member of the staff of the Medical School at the University of Otago, Dr I. Reifer, a graduate of the University of Vienna, arrived in Auckland by the Rangitata. He is a doctor of science specialising as a bio-chemical engineer, and will take a position at the Medical School at the University o f Otago. Born in Poland, Dr Reifer has enjoyed a distinguished career at universities at Czechoslovakia, Berlin, and Vienna. He has devoted himself to laboratory work as an analytical medical chemist.
Although his only contact with New Zealand has been by correspondence Dr Reifer hopes to remain in the Dominion. “ I have been assured that there is ample scope for my work at Dunedin,” he added, “ and I hope to introduce some of the more recent discoveries made in Vienna in the bacteriological and serological departments of my work.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23352, 18 November 1937, Page 9
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183ARRIVAL OF SCIENTIST Otago Daily Times, Issue 23352, 18 November 1937, Page 9
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